Neighborhood Turkeys
© 2024 Scott C Sosna Last fall wild turkey moved into our neighborhood with no indication that they ever intend to leave. They wander the neighborhood, I assume to forage…
Highland Park Water Tower
The Highland Water Tower in St Paul, MN was completed in 1928 and is on the National Register of Historic Places (1984, Reference #84001209). The tower was designed by architect…
Minnehaha Falls Is … Falling
Minneahaha Falls is a small waterfall in Minnehaha Regional Park in Minneapolis, MN. The spring has been fairly rainy, so my wife and I joined the crowds to see what…
Where Diets Go To Die
St. Paul has a wealth of food choices, many tasty and outright great, making it difficult to maintain some semblance of control on how much you consume. For someone with…
A Friend Returned
Last night, a friend returned to visit us .... or more specifically, our house. My wife, my sister and her husband were out for dinner when I noticed our neighbor…
Front-Yard Wildlife Lesson
A bald eagle caught a neighborhood squirrel - one of many - and decided the best place to eat was in our front-yard oak tree, totally unperturbed by the fascinated…
Frank Lloyd Wright Gas Station
Of the many different residential and commercial buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, Cloquet, MN is the location of the only gas station built. Atlas Obscura explains how Wright originally…
Davina and the Dakota
My wife and I spent our Friday night at The Dakota to the excellent music of Davina and the Vagabonds. Davina cut her chops at the Dakota before becoming known…
Snow, Snow Days and Football
Minnesota's reputation for brutal winters is not completely unjust: obscenely-cold temperatures (that's actual not windchill), blizzards which stop (almost) everything, winters where new snow fall is constant and the shoveling…
Pavek Museum
Originally the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting, the Pavek Museum is primarily known for its extensive collection of vintage radio, television, and broadcasting equipment. The initial museum was created from the…