Art in Linden Hills on Lake Harriet

Have you ever had the desire to walk on water? Well here in Minnesota we do it all the time, of course it's in the middle of winter and the water is frozen but still you find yourself crossing lakes from one end to the other and sometimes viewing the latest in art projects.  Welcome to the Linden Hills Art Shanty Projects which began in January this year and ended this last weekend on Sunday, February 6th. I'm posting today to City Daily Photo. I hope you enjoy.

Linden Hills Art Shanty Projects

"Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue." John Muir

"Don't stop me now!" I'm walking on Lake Harriet, in Linden Hills, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Rascals said it best. "It's a beautiful morning. Ah. Think I'll go outside for a while. And just smile. Just take in some clean fresh air, boy. No sense in staying inside. 

(Even if the temperatures are quite feisty today)

 It's your chance to wake up and plan another new day."

My thoughts on the artists and their wildest dreams brought to life, and placed right here for all to absorb is simply this,

"Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand." Alain de Botton

On any given day we may feel this way or that, it just depends on our mood at hand. 

"Commandments of Fake Healing"

Funny stuff.

"Lovely Day."

"It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself."

Roald Dahl

What's within all the ribbons?

Really. "Those that don't believe in magic will never find it."- Roald Dahl

"Don't gobblefunkle around with words." Dahl

Just get on a bike and ride.

"We have more than enough time to carve our own path across the lake."

Take time to meet new friends. It's essential to your happiness.

Take time to simply stop and listen, you just may learn something you never knew existed.

Remember some of the tales they spin around the ice just might be make-believe. Or are they? It's all about enjoying the journey.

If you're feeling blue, it means you haven't explored enough.

Keep moving. Don't look back. Demand more of yourself.

It was an artist eager to take their imagination out on a limb just for YOU to stand back and THINK about what you SEE.

Don't miss the wonders that are waiting to be scooped up, enjoyed and why not pass them on.

Keep the pace and smiles on your face. 

Do you see the wonder?

Remember, while 'midst the hubbub of Art Shanties on the water slow down and reflect.

While you're on this journey across the icy lake take note, in a twinkling it'll be spring soon.

 

"I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going on."

John Muir

Thanks for taking time to stop by and leave a comment.

Enjoy your day and your adventures.

Take good care and make more moments to remember.

Day Tripping and Critters on Saturday

 Welcome to another City Daily Photo post and

 SATURDAY'S CRITTERS 

"You don't see the world as it is, you see the world as you are." 

 The Talmud

"Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason." Alain de Botten

and most certainly spring is on the way. "With the coming of spring, I am calm again." Gustav Mahler 

"But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again."

Gustav Mahler

Meet Booker from Wild Rumpus Book Store in Linden Hills.

Butterfly Girl from Linden Hill's Art Shanty Project (posting tomorrow)

"I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December." Oliver Herford

I was so pleased to see that Wild Rumpus Book Store was open for us to come inside again!  They're not just a bookstore, or a place where imaginations expand and minds grow, but also home to quite a few critters as well. 

The book, The Magic Bookcase by Robert Ingpen

"Books fall open, you fall in." David McCord

Meet one of the new critters to their store. For now, I'm calling her the kitty with a funny name that I can't quite recall. 

Below Dash and Misty enjoying some fresh air and sunshine. For this brief moment and back to the frozen tundra temperatures. 

After a few blinks and a whole lot of snow yet to fall you'll sense spring moving in again.

So, enjoy Frosty as long as you can, the melt down will soon begin again.

Don't forget your Valentine, as Valentine's Day is in nine days.

"Happiness is never an accident, it is a prize we get when we chose wisely from life's great stories."

Thank you for your visit and comments.

Please stay safe and take good care of you.

Open City on Critters for Saturday

"Your life must be an open city with all sorts of ways to wander in."

 Robin Sloan

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is to stroll around with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters." 

Charles Baudelaire

Welcome everyone, today I'm posting to SATURDAY'S CRITTERS and City Daily Photo. It's an inside and outside adventure through the city to combat the winter blues. 

Rusty says, "Hello everyone!"

"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."

Anatole France

"Nine tenths of education is encouragement." 

Anatole France

So, my suggestion for any youngster feeling a bit sluggish, lost in an overload of work they fear will never be completed- put a camera in their hand and push them out the door.  See what they come back with. Work from there.

Camera Bug.

"For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity."

Henry Cartier-Bresson

Imagine if you will a surreal adventure where you are the investigator of your life. What shall you find and where will you be?

One of my most favorite places is a bookstore, or library and since my children were young this bookstore, Wild Rumpus is home to a variety of critters as well. This photo was taken inside Wild Rumpus. They are finally open to the public again although masks are required.

"He has the strangest expression on his face, the emotional equivalent of 404 PAGE NOT FOUND."

Robin Sloan

"If you want a stable friendship, get a horse."

Unknown

Out and about our yard. Critters and kiddos at play.

"Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will."

Charles Baudelaire

"Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty." 

Charles Baudelaire

"There is something about the outside

whether it be city or country

that is marvelous for the inside of man."

 "I walk alone in my fantastic play,

until your next return.

Tripping on nothing, nimbly backing away,

as if on rough paving upon the street, or packed counterspace,

bumping into nothing, listening ever so intently in this race

for my next lunch.

Charles Baudelaire and our Peacock 

"All the secrets of the world worth knowing are hiding in plain sight."

Robin Sloan

Did somebody say turn around please?

Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication and occur not just in human but also other animal species, and they have always fascinated me. Buggy's, especially. Constantly.

What is he thinking?

What is it that you are wordlessly saying?

 

"Whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise

into the morning sky; 

whose flight, unchecked,

out reaches life and readily comprehends

the language of flowers and of all mute things."

Please let's wander where the wi-fi is weak.

Better yet, nonexistent. Bring your camera.

It may not appear so, but on this day when I snapped this, it was horribly cold outside! We quickly went for a hot cup of cocoa.

"Many times the wrong train took me to the right place."

Paulo Coelho

Come to the city and ride our Minneapolis Light Rail.

Thanks for stopping in.

Your comments are a joy for me.

Take good care of you.

Snow Fairies for Words on Wednesday

Welcome to Words On Wednesday. Word list offered by Hilary Melton-Butcher and presented on Elephant's Child blog. I've used all 12 words.

Fairies of the Snow

Catching Fairies in the Snow.

Plants and fairies speak their own language that humans often find confusing or misleading in most situations. Bold and joyful Fairies tend to mix folly with work while living freely among growths of Violet and Snowdrop flowers. 

I hear them whispering to tulips, daffodils 

as well as other flowers known as medicine for the soul

and will cure any ailment.

Most Fairies use twigs for beds and cabbage plants are often their carapace protecting them from wild grizzly bears or the occasional Hessian mannered stray meowing their way through snowy paths along ornamental brick borders of my gardens.

A fairy illustrator that's more like a cross between a courageous to fair dinkum rather than a jokester once cried "Eureka we shall carry fairies away by ship," as they pulled up anchor and gathered moonbeams that could cure any ailment under the sun. 

That my friends once the sun melts the snow it will be the end of the story for all fairies in the snow.

"Well, she's walking through the clouds 

With a circus mind

 that's running wild 

Butterflies and zebras and moonbeams and fairy tales

 that's all she ever thinks about.

Riding with the wind."

 By the Jimi Hendrix Experience

 

Take good care of you and your own snow fairies.