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At the St. Paul Curling Club

Lunch today at The Happy Gnome and then a walk across the parking lot to the St. Paul Curling Club for a couple of hours of curling. The Happy Gnome is a nice little restaurant and bar (although I apologize for their web site which seems to be all Flash). Went back afterwards and ordered a “Surly Bender,” which is brewed right here in Brooklyn Park, but they were out of that so I settled for a Flat Earth Cygnus X-1 Porter.

The Curling Club was really cool. I had no idea.

I’ve never played before. This was a team event for my work and none of us knew what we were doing, but we had a great time. We do these events about once a month, and …

Cascade River, again

From the same beautiful day as the last picture: Cascade River State Park, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

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Cascade River State Park, Minnesota

Cascade River State Park, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

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Photopost: Minnesota Aspens in Summer

From the same Aspen family featured in Autumn in Northern Minnesota and More Minnesota Aspens in Fall.

My wife thinks I take too many pictures of these trees.

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Previous free aspen pictures were taken with a 2 mega-pixel Olympus D-520 camera. Now you’re getting shots from a 6 mega-pixel Canon SD600. Still taken with the same shaky hand.

At the Blue Ox Market

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“Up north” in Minnesota. Yah, sure.

This is the grocery store in Akeley, Minnesota. The mural is of Paul Bunyan’s blue ox, “Babe.”

Friday Photopost: More Minnesota Aspens in Fall

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Autumn in Northern Minnesota
Minnesota Aspens in Summer