I’ve loved snowstorms ever since I was a little kid and heard the stories of the Armistice Day Blizzard of 1940 in which my grandfather froze to death. (I wasn’t…
Author: <span>Griff Wigley</span>
The LG Triumvirate is on break from our radio show/podcast till Jan. 4th. And I’ve turned off the LG Membership Drive banner ads and the Google ads till after the…
In June of 2008, I blogged about La Vencedora, the Mexican grocery, deli, and restaurant that reopened in the old Maria’s building in the Q Block at Hwy 3 and…
Northfielder Dick Heibel, world-renowned snow globe and music box repairman, was featured today in a Star Tribune video. It’s quite touching. In addition to the articles listed on his web…
NAG Board member Steve Engler took dozens of photos at the Beaux Arts Ball on Saturday and gave me a disk of them yesterday. I put on my editor’s hat, tossed/cropped a few, and am now pleased to present them here.
Above: Locally Grown’s propriety guidelines prevent me from publishing the rest of the series of photos of Steve with his wife, Lynn.
See the album of 60 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
Our RSS feed for comments seems to be suffering from a glitch. The comments are coming through via Google Reader but not for other aggregators, eg, Mozilla Thunderbird, or those built into web browsers.
I’m working on it here as I get time. Apologies. (RSS for blog posts is working fine.)
If you’re curious about RSS, see this video, RSS in Plain English:
Yesterday morning’s Alberta clipper dusted us with an inch or two of snow, prompting me to try my hand at another round of macro photos (see the autumn album) in the Carleton Arb. I’ll probably add to this album over the next week as a parade of snow ‘event’s’ are predicted to march through southern Minnesota.
See the album of 16 photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow:
With a partial (pyrrhic?) victory (NY Times here or LA Times here) on climate change and a likely one on health care reform, President Obama’s escalation of the war in…
Prairie Creek Community School held a 25th anniversary party yesterday afternoon. See my album of ten photos, the large slideshow, or this small slideshow: