For my first photos of 2022 taken with my professional camera, I visited Excelsior, Minnesota, at the golden hour—the hour after sunrise and the hour before sunset. I was there today for the sunset. These photos depict some of my favorite places as a child.
The Glow Lounge (I’m not sure what it is)Excelsior Coin & Collectibles, a shop I used to visit as a child to add to my coin collectionLicks Unlimited, where my favorite ice cream flavor was SupermanExcelsior Dock Cinema, where they are showing the 2022 adaptation of Stephen King’s 1980 novel, Firestarter. I didn’t see that many movies here as a child, but I do remember seeing Twister at the theater.Leipold’s, a store selling antiques and odds and ends. There was an article about this unique store in the Star Tribune, which one can read here.An abandoned gas station in the heart of Excelsior. I wonder what they’re planning on doing with this building.Trinity Episcopal Church, the church my family attended when I was a childRentMyPartyBus.com was parked near Lake MinnetonkaLady of the Lake, a three-deck charter boat on Lake MinnetonkaA tree in the foreground and the moon in the way, way backgroundCommons BallparkBark on three similar trees near Lake MinnetonkaLake Minnetonka two minutes before sunset
