Author Archive
Deep in the park woodlands lies peace and understanding.
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.
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.
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.
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.
