Archive for the 'Environment' Category

Minnesota - You’re Beautiful

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

When I tell people I meet that I live in Minnesota a not infrequent reaction is “how can you stand living there? Isn’t it always cold and snowy?”
Personally, I could handle a little more snow and cold. Besides, if I didn’t live here I wouldn’t wake up to views like these:

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Mississippi Silhouette

Monday, December 10th, 2007

The view of the Mississippi from our kitchen window was spectacular this morning and it was made all the better by the silhouette of Morgana nestled in her cat tree. Sadly my camera doesn’t do it justice:

End of Birkenstock Season

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

More snow! *glee* Sadly the rapidly accumulating little flakes, though beautiful and cozy mean that my trust footwear of choice, my Birkenstock Bostons need to be shelved for the next few months. Much as I love wading through snow banks ankle deep in my Birks, I sadly love my toes more than my shoes in […]

First Day of Snow

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

I love snow, always have. It always makes me happy. I celebrate today as the day of first real snow; may it continue and may we please have a white Christmas this year:)
Credit goes to auburnwad2000 for the beautiful photo.

Google Maps & Greenland is Gorgeous

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

While messing around with Google Maps to see how far I’m walking from St. Cloud State to the Library (0.8 miles) I discovered a new feature in my map client-o-choice. Called “customize your route” you can now drag and drop the route indicator on the maps. The implementation is still a little rough around the […]