The footpath around Lake Harriet.

As Green Week continues; here’s the nature trail just north of  Lake Harriet. The entrances are  pretty well hidden, but worth the search.

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.

Sunlight dances across Nine Mile Creek and through the thistles as the Minnesota landscape prepares for winter’s cover.

Hard Shadows, crooked road

The only guy around here with a job is the mower.

Thee gas pumps stand guard over the old station at the Log House Pioneer Village.

This is where I realized that the place was too clean. A building like this should be surrounded with weeds and have a few rusting hulks ’round back. The gang and I are planning some excursions to find ghost towns around the area. If you are interested to joining us for an adventure, or have some suggestions of locations to check out, let me know.

Hey Beatles Fans

There’s a few Beatles related products hitting the market today; think about the date: number nine, number nine, number nine…

Our perennial nemesis, more virulent than the piggy sniffles, pours over the fields — like short Mongolian hoards with puff-ball heads.

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

OK, OK, I’ll give the infrared a rest. But since today in my “Moment of Zen” day, where I try to stop your thoughts with an odd image, it fit. Here’s my TerraTrike. It’s a recumbent trike, loads of fun and a joy to ride. The best part is that I can haul my big camera around in the saddle bag and use it as a table when I am setting up my gear. Plus it’s funner-n-ell in the winter; I go looking for ice patches to slide on.

This is Fort Snelling State Park just south of the MSP airport in the Minnesota river valley.

Professional Minneapolis Photographer Mitch Rossow shares daily photos of the city he loves. Exploring Minneapolis through Photography while teaching composition and techniques.

Another stop on the amazing Minneapolis bike trail system. This is one of over a dozen little bridges over the Minnehaha creek. The trail follows the creek from the base of Lake Harriet to the Minnehaha Falls. I’ll post a photo of the falls sometime, but it’s a perennial favorite of photography students and tourists, so I am a tad reticent to shoot it. Maybe I should see what it looks like in infrared…

I explain how to take infrared photos here.