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Archive for April 2010
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My Friends
My friends Rob and Dan walk up to the fire pit at Hidden Falls as I balance precariously on the edge.0
Hidden Falls
I promise to get back here when the color green returns to my land. Enlarge this (click on image) and look at it, this is a beautiful area, there's a little creek that zig-zags down the valley with a pleasant trail and little rock walls holding back the tree-covered hillside. But right now it's far from ideal. On a technical note, I pushed the color of the sky to emphasize the colorlessness of the landscape.5
Eastern Blue Bird - Sialia Sialis
I met my first new bird of the season, an Eastern Blue Bird. After a long winter, it's nice to see a Bluebird of Happiness to show his visage in the thawing wonderland of the Twin Cities.1
Spring Flood 2
What looks like a board on the water in the bottom left is actually a picnic table top. Hidden Falls park is part of the flood plain in the Mississippi river valley through town, so it, um, floods.1
Spring Flooding of the Mississippi
Spring is here and with it comes the melt. The Mighty Mississippi has swelled it's banks. This is the parking lot of the Hidden Falls park on the East Bank South of the Ford Bridge.0
Years ago, someone in my neighborhood started pouring cat food and peanuts in the alley for the squirrels. Whenever I saw it, I tried to scoop it all up and get rid of it. I finally caught the fresh-out-of-college culprit one summer night. I told her that every stray cat, raccoon, opossum and God knows what else for miles around was coming to eat it. She said she felt bad for the animals. I said I felt bad for them when she left. And sure enough, she moved out and now there are squirrels all over digging in the dumpsters. What on earth is going to happen to these swans when this kind-hearted person can no longer do this?
Swan Reality
I have to admit the swan photos from earlier this week were "fish in a barrel" style pics. Rob, Dan and I went to Monticello, MN to see the Swans. Rob had heard about this place and I imagined a woodland marsh with swans all around. Never had I imagined a goose farm in a residential neighborhood on the shore of the Mississippi. You can't imagine the racket, they are called "trumpeter" swans for a reason. Here's the sign there that describes the situation (click to enlarge).
Years ago, someone in my neighborhood started pouring cat food and peanuts in the alley for the squirrels. Whenever I saw it, I tried to scoop it all up and get rid of it. I finally caught the fresh-out-of-college culprit one summer night. I told her that every stray cat, raccoon, opossum and God knows what else for miles around was coming to eat it. She said she felt bad for the animals. I said I felt bad for them when she left. And sure enough, she moved out and now there are squirrels all over digging in the dumpsters. What on earth is going to happen to these swans when this kind-hearted person can no longer do this?
