On Saturday, I went up to Two Harbors, which is on the northern shore of Lake Superior, and spent the night at a bed and breakfast that is also a working lighthouse. Despite the lack of colorful leaves, it was still very beautiful.

( My pictures, let me show you them. )

I don't know that I can describe everything I saw and did while in Massachusetts and Connecticut, so I'm not going to try. I'll say this: I felt like I'd come home the very moment our car merged onto the Mass Pike. Not that I love driving around Boston, but everything about it felt familiar and rightSmith was amazing. The reunion was even more ( Read more... )

This afternoon I went to the Science Museum of Minnesota to see a friend's daughter perform Indonesian dances. (I think that when many people think of Minnesotans, they think of beautiful, tall, blond people of Scandinavian and German descent. And yes, there's a lot of that, but the Twin Cities are also quite diverse ethnically, and they really ( Read more... )

I had fun today! Mom and I drove to Dassel, MN, which is about an hour and a half west of Minneapolis. We went there because - I'd discovered from googling myself - there was a tea shop called Thistlerose that also sold British imports. Whee! And they're closing on the 28th (just the tea shop, they'll continue to sell imports). Boo! The woman ( Read more... )

I went leaf peeping today! Except, there weren't very many leaves to peep at. But Carley State Park, in southeastern Minnesota, was quite pretty. It's about two hours away from where I live and the drive would have been pleasant, except that I'd got my directions from Mapquest, so I was a little nervous, and all the towns were pretty spread out ( Read more... )

Today I went to the Minnesota History Center, which was interesting. I wish I'd had more time to spend there. I saw the exhibit on weather, which was a bit frightening. They talk a lot about snow. And they have this thing where you can sort of see what it's like to be in a basement during a tornado. You go into this model basement and you sit ( Read more... )

One of the pens that I bought in Japan - almost four years ago - JUST ran out of ink. And I used it a lot. That's a good pen. *mourns ( Read more... )

I forgot to post my pictures from the State Fair. They're not very exciting, but...

( worksafe (I should think!) but not dial up friendly )

( Not very many really, and mostly of the cats )

I was going through my picture files and found some photographs I'd taken a little over a year ago. The first batch is the Cloisters Museum and Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan. The second batch is from the trip my mom and I took to the north shore of Lake Superior. Not dial-up friendly. Sorry.

( The Cloisters )