Summer-ish 2024

Summer is winding down in Minnesota and Minnesota’s fever seems to have broken. We’re finally starting to get some cooler weather and it’s become rather enjoyable to be in this state again.

We had a great year for flowers and pollinators including some new pollinators I’ve never seen before like the onion moth – a species adapted to pollinate chive flowers. It was cool! I have a lot of photos of pollinators. I thank them because we were able to make about 12 jars of raspberry jam from raspberries we grew, and, we have boatloads of peaches!

I snuck in some photos from early-ish summer / late spring showing the apple blossoms. It’s such a neat time of year, the entire twin cities area smells a bit sweet with all the blossoms around the area. We have some favorite spots we visit to see the blooming trees. Unfortunately, we missed the cherry blossoms at Como Park this year :/.

We’ve had some neat weatherish experiences: we were able to see aurora borealis from our driveway in early summer, and, saw a super cool electrical storm from the exact same location in late summer.

We managed to make it to waterski shows this summer. We had hoped for more but life got in the way. It was a lot of fun to see the extremely talented individuals doing amazing human tricks.

The last group of photos are of my travels two, from, and, in Sioux Falls, SD. Work commitments brought me to Sioux Falls quite a bit this summer. Even though I grew up in South Dakota I never really visited Sioux Falls. It was neat to have downtime to wander around and check out the sites. I would say Sioux Falls is a wonderful place to visit so long as the wind direction is right. There is a MASSIVE slaughter house in downtown Sioux Falls and if the wind direction is just wrong then the smell in the beautiful downtown area is unbearable. Besides the smell of death, Sioux Fall is a 10/10.

It’s actually hard to pick the headline image for this post. The aurora, Hennepin bridge with apple petals, and, the lightening are all beautiful photos and were awesome to see. All in all, that’s it. It’s been a good summer. I’m sad to see it go :/

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