Viny

More from my neighbor's Sukkot celebration.

This vine hut is her sukkah.  The sukkah reminds people of their own fragility. 

The Israelites made sukkot (plural of sukkah) "booths" when they were wandering in the wilderness for 40 years.  During this celebration believers put themselves in the shoes of the Israelites as a remembrance of God's gracious provision for His people.

Libationary

My neighbor has been celebrating the Jewish holiday Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles) this week and invited a few friends over today to fellowship in and around her vine hut.  Here is what she calls her  "barette" (little bar) of libations.

Crusty

The harsh elements of the Bold North will chew you up and spit you out.  This truck never had a chance.

Frivolity

More from the 2018 MN State Fair.  This had me truly perplexed. 

Apparently, at some point, people were disrobing on the Sky Glider ride and flinging their discarded clothing onto the roof of a building.

Things that make you go "hmmmmmm."

Penalty

Don't know who this car belongs to, but it's got a pretty bracelet.

Death-defyingly

More from the 2018 MN State Fair. 

Mischievously

Itsy-bitsy

My littlest gravitated to the only sun patch in the room like a moth to a flame.  She looks calm and peaceful, but for some reason, the song One is the Loneliest Number popped into my head as soon as I saw the image.

Turkey

This turkey and his family has taken up residence at a local strip mall.  Yesterday afternoon, after the monsoons had finally passed, he was standing out in the sun in full glory.  I thought I was finally going to get a great shot of him.  But while I was parking and getting out my camera, a couple and their dog decided to invade his space, so he ran over to hide in the landscaping and preen himself instead.

This is the best I could get as he refused to strut his stuff again.  I don't know where the wife and kids were today.  Probably shopping at Burlington.

Hand-holding the camera zoomed out to 300mm, so Mr. Gobble isn't as sharp as I'd like.

Tenacity

Dad retired at 58 and after being retired for a while he decided that it was time to lose weight once and for all. 

Dedicatedly

Continuing with the dad theme.  He was a hard working blue collar worker who worked for the same company for over 30 years.

Celebratory

Sticking with the dad theme, here he is on one of the happiest days of his life.

Negative scanned with Epson V600.

Military

Thinking about my dad this week.  This was the satchel he took to Korea with him.  Dad was discharged from active duty on this date, September 18, 1954.

Introspectively

My neighbor was showing me a scrapbook with mementos from her entire life.  It was very interesting.

Spiky

Savory

Burp.

Weighty

"The Traveler" or "Granite Man", as my brother refers to him, sits outside Little Falls Granite Works in Little Falls, MN.

Surly

Someone is going to die.

Unwillingly

Unhand me, woman!  Enough with the kisses!

Cemetery

This boulder memorializes the impact site of Flight 93.  The plane pummeled into the ground at almost 600mph at 10:03am EDT.  Most debris at the site was smaller than a notebook.

The triptych shows progressively closer views of the boulder in the direction of the plane's trajectory. 

More information about the flight can be found on their website.

Cheerfully

Our sweet neighbor and her lovely flowers.

Hilly

Funky

A funky looking flower at Noerenberg Memorial Gardens as seen during our drive last Sunday.

Entertainingly

More from our Sunday drive last week.  People enjoying the boat traffic in Maxwell Bay on Lake Minnetonka.

Cockeyedly

They say the early bird gets the worm.  I think this one got into the Red Bull instead.

Disconcertingly

Last Sunday we went for a drive in the Lake Minnetonka area and came across some farm animal statues at a gas station.  This pig's eyes seriously creep me out.

Disassembly

On the way home from the Fair, we came across the skeletal remains of the Weyerhaeuser Lumber distribution facility.  The lumberyard closed in 2016.  They were actively tearing it down, even though it was a Saturday evening.  Parks and affordable housing are slated for the site. 

It reminds me of a giant Erector set.

Finally

And finally, the 2018 MN State Fair is wrapping up today, so I'm closing this set of blogs with a very sad Fairchild Gopher.

History

More from the 2018 MN State Fair.

Cinematically

More from the 2018 MN State Fair.  The Blue Moon Dine-in-Theater was, by far, the most comfortable place to sit at the Fair.  Re-purposing old cars seats for an old time drive-in feel is genius – especially after you've been walking around at the Fair for any length of time.

I tried the Orange Dream shake, but it was a bust.  They obviously didn't mix it up well as there was 4 inches of orange liquid in the bottom.  My husband's chocolate shake was better.

The best part was just relaxing and watching I Love Lucy for a half hour.


On the technical side, it was quite dark in there and I was hand-holding the camera at 1/6 sec, so it wasn't as sharp as I would have liked it.