Plein Air Grand Marais for more info.

Plein air in Grand Marais. This guy was doing a street painting of the front of the Ben Franklin store. One of two left in the state.

At the end of the Gunflint Trail. Gull Lake. Canada is just a wee bit from here.

At Gooseberry Falls on Minnesota’s North Shore.

Hope to make it up to the Gunflint Lodge today.

Interesting coffee cup At Sarah’s Table Chester Creek Cafe. “Democracy must be something more …”

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“Death Before DECAF” at the New London Cafe, Duluth MN.


Lake Superior at Glensheen.

Canal Park Lake Walk. Ann with “the determined mariner” and a lighthouse for sale.

It was a beautiful day in Duluth. A welcome change from the rain yesterday in Rochester. Here is a picture of the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge open for sailboats.

So. That rain yesterday? 7". Sheesh. Today we dry out.

Just made a quick stop at the Higher Grounds Café in North Branch for a “Minty Moose” on the way to Duluth.

Rain. Lots. Of. Rain.

I keep wanting to spell “bullet journal” as “bullitt journal”. Thanks Steve McQueen.

My go to pen these days is a Pilot Vanishing Point. I love this thing.

Huh. It looks like we have to live with the typos in replies. Is that true?

📚 I loved Treasure Island as a kid. Still do. I keep wanting to recommend it to my grandson, but he’s still grappling with the concept of reading for fun. I realize my sample size is quite small. Is the current crop of middle schoolers indifferent to books?

New battery for the car, $280. Being able to get to Grand Marais next week, priceless. Side note: the original battery lasted 13 years so I’m not complaining.

It’s a beautiful day here in Minnesota.

📚I usually try to keep two books going. One from Audible and one on the Kindle. Currently listening to Ellis Peter’s The Pilgrim of Hate and reading Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.