ABC’s Good Morning America has a segment they call “Your Weekend Window” that featured the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes today. It’s a nice overview of why I love living here, except they make a big mistake — they call it the Chain of Lakes in the town of Calhoun, Minnesota. There’s no town of Calhoun around here, the “Chain of Lakes” are four lakes in Minneapolis; you’d think that the fact that all the people they interview are Minneapolis Park Board employees would be a hint. The Lakes are from top to bottom: Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet. Lake Nakomis is further down Minnehaha Creek.   Watch the video.

Fun fact about Lake Calhoun, it used to be named “Medoza” meaning  Lake of the loons, but after Secretary of War, John Calhoun sent the Army to survey the area around Fort Snelling in 1817, they named it after him.

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The True Meaning of Cell Phone Sunday

My friend Dave pointed out that my skills as a photographer may appear to be the result of my good equipment, so I should get a cheap camera and prove otherwise. I suggested my cell phone camera, because it has a simple 640×480 camera and I always have it with me. “Perfect” Dave said, ”now do it.”
Simple rules: only uncropped, images directly from my cell phone. I do some post processing to sharpen up the image. The “camera” on the phone only has a “capture” button, so, at heart, it’s really a composition challenge. See past Cell Phone Sunday Photos.