This gnome-like kingish where-the-wild-things-are-looking sculpture from the Loppet got really creepy just before face-planting. Alas, a week of rain washes away all the evidence.
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Yes, it’s all fake. They hauled it in for the Loppet Cross Country Ski Race. Yes, a ski race in the city. No, I don’t get it either.
Remember the loppet? For some reason, they feel the need to take the ski race from the lakes up hill through our residential neighborhood to finish near Hennepin. To do that, they haul man-made snow in and dump it all over the street. Then, when they are done with our neighborhood, they don’t remove the snow, they just pile it up all over, changing a normally nice open parkway in the city into an ugly series of blind intersections.
As you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting too many photos lately. This season of dirty snow and sandy streets wears thin on my nerves. But spring is coming, bringing relief from the gloom and many more great photo days. What have I been doing instead? Well, a few of you may have figured out that I’m a web designer and this is one of the sites that I recently finished. Unlike most of my work, this is a rebuild. The illustration was from their old site, but pretty much everything else is new. The old site was a tangled mess of awful code, it took forever to load for a simple site and I don’t think Google had much appreciation for it.
I build with CSS and XHTML which in simple terms means that the site has really clean code and is very easy to make changes to (read inexpensive updates) and Google loves it. Take a moment to check it out, they are a great company, I’ve been a customer of theirs for a long time before they hired me to rebuild this site. Nook And Cranny Concierge Services.
The retired container lift gazes on from it’s gravel pasture as the world’s goods rumble by. Imagine all the goods that pass through the great Union Yard that was once the common ground of over 30 individual railroads.
