Steaming Across Lake of the Isles
Miss Robbinsdale, The 1954 Aqua Queen
Peter's GrillKatie in the Cattails
Name: Katie Age: 97 Neighborhood: Bryn Mawr Swimming Hole: Cedar Lake Quote: Cattails, cattails, In Dutch my father says to stay out of the lisdodde! My mother calls them der Schilfkolben but she’ll never find us hiding in them.
Golden Valley, Garbage and the Laurel Ponds
An environmentally friendly documentary based on work done during the summer 2010 to help the animals living in, on and around a group of ponds in Golden Valley. I’ve spent enough time stomping through swamps west of the cities to tell you they all look like this and they’re getting worse.
Swamp of the Day
Pale green haze of new growth begins to obscure the bony structure of the swamp. Too sweet for me. I search for my fallen tree, for its upturned blackened roots the pit-strong mass, weighty, bulky, thrusting into the air, reflecting its silent strength in the water. A description of the merry month of May from [...]
Swamp of the Day
A mischievous little mess of cattails and mud in Medina just off Arrowhesd Road. Is that a Mosquito Patrol Helicopter?
A Cold Early “Sprinter” Day at Fagerness Point
Looking out across the clear, dark waters of Lake Minnetonka to Fagerness Point on a cold early “sprinter” day.
Libbs Lake and the Swamp of the Day
Here’s a nasty little swamp located just off of Libbs Lake in Minnetona . The last time I was here a drainage system was being put in place around a couple new basementless houses. I guess they decided not to drain the swamp. Libbs Lake is about 23 acres and 8 feet deep. There’s a [...]
Swamp of the Day
A beautiful large woodland pool behind some houses below Huntington and Shady Oak Road in Minnetonka, If I remember right there’s some pretty interesting stuff on the bottom. It drys out in July to reveal an ancient washing machine and fridge.
Swamp of the Day
Here it is! The first swamp of 2011 for this blog. My buddy Stretch sent it in and I guess it’s somewhere between County Road 44 and Bartlett Boulevard, away out west. In a couple weeks the snow on top will melt, but the swamp will still have an icy underbelly and if it’s deep [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/28/2010
As a wild food source the cattail has few equals. When the first European settlers arrived they found the native Americans using the plant for cordage basketry and food. One can’t help but surmise that during the first few years, as farm land was being cleared, the cattail helped more than one family survive until [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/27/2010
Cattails, rushes , bulrushes, all words used to describe a tall grass like plant that grows in wetlands distinguished in mid summer through fall by the tall central spike that ends in a brown sausage shaped flower and seed pod. The word is an ancient one originating from Sanskrit and is not related to the [...]
Swamp of the Day 10/26/2010
He lived in swamps. He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens. Job 40:21
Swamp of the Day 10/25/2010
The Swamp Angel By Herman Melville There is a coal-black Angel With a thick Afric lip, And he dwells (like the hunted and harried) In a swamp where the green frogs dip. But his face is against a City Which is over a bay of the sea, And he breathes with a breath that is [...]
