Trash Talk

I started this blog in the spring of 2015.  I was fairly new to living in downtown Minneapolis.  I had gotten rid of my car and was adapt...

I've spent little time this summer cleaning up the downtown Minneapolis stretch of the river.  Generally it's been too hot and mi...

It's sometimes limiting when you don't own a car in the Twin Cities.  It's been about 4 years since I sold the old beast.  Th...

I was at the Como Park Zoo and Conservatory in St. Paul yesterday.  The zoo, which is undergoing some big renovations still had plenty of...

 The journey of this pair of waders started about two weeks ago on Fisherman's Point on the north bank of Bassett Creek where th...

I never know what I'm going to find when I do a trash walk along the river. That's a single dose vial of Naloxone, the drug that c...

There's no getting those pants clean.  I fished them out of the river at Middle Beach just south of Bassett Creek on my leisurely walk...