Recently we were in Lee Vining California, which is on Mono Lake just east of Yosemite National Park and came across this interesting product. ORGANIC WOOD! I did not know there was such a thing as non-organic wood. Who ever thought this one up must be laughing at the gullible consumers thinking they are buying something special.....Come on people think about it.
Thanks to my brother Cole Hawkins for getting the photo. We saw it as we were leaving town.
So my wife, daughter and nine year old grandson were among the hordes of humanity down in canal park for the tall ships parade of sail yesterday.
After it was over my grandson wanted to buy a souvenir of the event. So they searched Canal Park and found that the only place to buy such a souvenir was in the Festival grounds. Ok but you had to pay to get in to the festival grounds area, NICE! Way to go Duluth make people pay for the privilege to shop for souvenirs. I think there is something seriously wrong with this. In my travels throughout my lifetime I have never heard of any thing so stupid.
Well This promises to be a very busy and interesting week here in Northeastern Minnesota.
With in a couple of days we have 9 Tall ships coming in to Duluth for several days. On Saturday Split Rock Lighthouse is Celebrating it’s 100 birthday. So as you might imagine I will be running wide open later in the week. Some time in August I will be getting the images from this week up one the web site. I will post a blog about the images and send out an e-mail as well. take care.
Shake rattle and roll Easter In Yuma Az.
It was Easter afternoon and we had a small group of friends over and I had just taken the meat off the BBQ and was carving it up when the ground started to rock and roll, It lasted for what seemed to be several minutes. Cars were Rocking our motor home was rocking even park models were moving. It shook us all pretty good and one of our friends complained of being sea sick. When it was over those of us that had been standing felt like we had just gotten of a boat and had sea legs real bad.
We all will be on our way to different states and Canada soon and for some including my wife not soon enough. The epicenter was about 63 miles from us.
Well hope you all had a less exciting Easter than we did here in Yuma.
March is here that must mean that winter is winding down, I know it’s not over yet! Soon it will be time for the Minnesota State High School Boys Basketball Tournament and every Minnesotan knows what that means. Fro those of you not from Minnesota it means late season blizzard time, It coincides with the tournament.
April is not but four weeks away and soon the Ice Breakers on the great lakes will be opening the shipping lanes. Before long we will be seeing scenes like the one in this photograph on a regular basis. Lets hope the Twin ports has a banner year in 2011.
The desert has been getting some good rainfalls over this winter. I just hope that it has happened at the right times for a good spring wildflower season. I will be monitoring it closely now as the flowers could start in the next couple of weeks and hopefully what happened last year dose not this year, a sudden heat wave burnt most of the plants and they never bloomed so pray for a gradual warm up.
