speaking of places with no cultural significance, i recently had a work trip to florida. i felt more like a foreigner there than pretty much any other place i’ve ever been. but i did have some pretty good grouper tacos and a nice rum punch at a tourist trap near the beach.
get me to god's country.
in travel
from the early morning hours (6:11 a.m. to be exact) along the banks of the cottonwood river. i take the portable hermitage (camper) here at least once a year. it’s not far flung by any means or especially interesting in any geographic, topological, or cultural sense. but walking along a river bank on a summer day is a profound, peak experience in my book.
white lotus
in travel
maybe this SEO friendly title will draw a stray visitor or two? a golden-hour ish capture from Phuket two years ago. best pineapple fried rice of my life.
fools spring
in travel
i’m well aware that we can get another foot of snow at any given moment, but hitting 60 degrees today feels springy enough to post this pic, cherry blossoms in tokyo from 2 years ago.
heaven or grand marais
thank you, random seagull, for providing some balance to this image.
right where i need to be
another great renville county park campsite, on the banks of the mighty minnesota river.
stop and smell the ginkos
no charismatic megafauna or flora here, but this is the mood of the day.
you know what yogi berra says, when you see a fork in the road, take it. the minnesota river valley is criminally underrated.
where the blacktop ends
safe harbor
literally no editing. glad i got to share one of the best sunsets of my life with my parents during their first visit to Grand Marais.
what happens in the meadow at dusk?
or, in this case, dawn? if you ask me, i’d say everything. this nice young family lives on the banks of the minnesota river, on the renvile side of the redwood/renville county border.
Gitche Gumee
the largest freshwater lake in the world! (by surface area, not volume)
brisk
not much but a calm moment in the superior national forest.
(f)unemployment
as previously documented on this site, i’ve tried and failed to photograph the northern lights over the years. i had some quality time up north at one of my favorite state parks and got this shot from just over my truck.
idle hands are known to be the devil's workshop.
in travel
picking up the pace around here! from my first and perhaps only time on the southern shores of the north sea.
bookend
taken just about a year ago, some sandhill cranes during their mass migration.
3 hours in rome
in travel
i had 3 hours in rome and managed to see a lot of the “greatest hits”, including this one.
this bulging river
a brief break from intense rains in redwood county. i needed to sit next to a field for a while, so i did.
another post, another rando european beach
in travel
i was on a quick work trip in “amsterdam” which was actually in a suburb maybe 30 minutes away from the city center. it was my first time on the shores of the north sea.
just deserts
within a 15 minute drive from palm springs, you can lose yourself in the desert.
Doing less
straight from the iPhone with no editing. this is the lake of the clouds in the porcupine wilderness in Michigan.