frosty first

Happy New Year.

king of the hill

Er, queen.

to the letter, again

More.

to the letter

Setting type at this press.

perfect day for a drive

Just another November day in Minnesota.

this night

October full moon.

cabin curiosities

in the sticks

At the Minnesota State Fair, of course.

one fair fair

the houston county fair, again

the houston county fair

4-H is sweet. And melty.

the hike

Family reunion last weekend.

The photo above is taken at a spot in the middle of the woods that used to be known locally as "The Steps." Our ancestors (some of them pictured here, circa 1908) and neighboring prairie folk would hike there on camping trips.

So what did we do on our family reunion? We went searching for the Steps. We found them.

(click the image to see a larger version)

Want to see the 2010 version of the top photo? Go here.

the hunt for duck creek

chicken triad

minnesota nice

Front and back of the most polite sign in the world. Also, quite possibly the most emphatic.

at the cabin

Memorial Day weekend.

she sees all

Pulled over on the way home Sunday to take this picture, and discovered I was being watched. She misses nothing, I can tell.

Her nametag reads, "The Other Woman."

it's a sign

For the last three and a half months, I've been photographing signs. Those kinds of signs, the whatever-you-call-thems, the kind where you can plop it wherever you want to and say whatever you want to say on it. (I'm so articulate.)

Anyway, the plan is to put the whole series up on the website eventually . . . in the meantime, here are a few of my favorites.

time travel

Over a year ago, I shot a roll of slide film with my Diana camera. I wanted it cross-processed (the cross-processing is what makes the colors above look freaky-awesome), but the local lab refused to do it for me. So the roll collected dust until I finally sent it away to get developed. A year and a half later.

This shot is from inside one of my childhood forts, the lilac tree.

meanwhile, back at the ranch