Just Ducky

Captured these ducks this summer on the hottest and most humid day of the summer. In fact, it was the most humid day that I can ever recall from these parts. I'm unsure if these ducks were enjoying the heat, but this swampy looking land was a flooded out area near the Mississippi River. We had received quite a bit of rain a few day prior to this photo.

White Out

Since we have hardly had much snow this year, here is another from last winters snow storm that produced a lot of great photos.

Corner Post

Found the broken lamp amusing....

Waxed Neon Lanes

There wasn't much action here at the local bowling alley. I did like the neon artwork above the lanes.

Desoto

Slick curves, what a grill.

For Those Of You Missing The Snow

Here in the Twin Cities, we've yet to have a snow fall of more than a couple of inches. In fact, I've only shoveled one time, and I didn't even break a sweat with my effort. It's really a strange winter for us. Even my kids were excited to see the snow the other day when it snowed just enough to make the ground white, but not enough to shovel. I also have yet to hear one complaint about the lack of snow. This is however, a far cry from last year, which gave us our second or third snowiest winter on record. Today's photo was from the top of my driveway looking at the large mounds of snow at the bottom of my driveway. Boy that was fun moving all that snow, not.

Red Bull - Crashed Ice 2012

Red Bull Crashed Ice? Yeah, I had never heard of it either until this year, but it looked to be quite the event here in St Paul. Four ice skaters at a time, race down hill on a dangerous track, the winner moves on until a champion is crowned. While I didn't make it down to the event, Justin so graciously braved the cold weather and provided a great close up action shot of the event. Thank you sir! St Paul was selected as the only North America city to host such event.