My mom and I went to Chanhassen’s Fourth of July celebration twice today (it is free, after all). It was sprinkling the first time we went at about 2:30 p.m. By the second time we went at about 6:45 p.m., the precipitation was over. The weather is significant because there will be heavy rain and a chance of thunderstorms tomorrow, Independence Day.
All photos were taken with my smartphone.
Who makes sunsets? My source for such information tells me it’s not the government.
I took these photos of the National Weather Service forecast office in the Twin Cities/Chanhassen, Minnesota. For the unaware, I have been photographing this entity since at least high school. It’s located next to my neighborhood, and it’s been pretty cool getting to grow up next to it.
Today, my mom and I checked out the 40,000 blooming tulips and completed the Three-Mile Walk at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum in Chaska, Minnesota.
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.
Today, my mom, puggles, and I made it to Carver Park Reserve Off-Leash Dog Park in Victoria, Minnesota. This dog park is actually the only dog park we knew about after getting Pugsley, and it wasn’t for quite some time that we found out about all the other dog parks in the area.
According to the Minnesota DNR’s Fall Color Finder, now is the perfect time for fall colors in Victoria. However, fall colors this year are not as spectacular as other years because of the drought we had this summer. Nevertheless, it was a nice day to visit a dog park and get some photos.
Today and tomorrow are in “a run for hottest day of the year,” according to the National Weather Service’s forecast office in the Twin Cities/Chanhassen, MN.
I took this photo at 7:23 a.m.
For Memorial Day, my parents and I traveled by car to visit the family of my brother’s fiancée. All but one of these photos were taken when we stayed at the Hyatt Regency St. Louis at The Arch in Missouri, though I do have more photos that were taken with my iPhone. Unfortunately, I can’t open the photos taken with my iPhone on this Linux computer because they are .heic files, which this computer does not recognize. That being said, I am grateful the weather cooperated when we were at the Gateway Arch, since these are some of the best photos I’ve taken with my Canon EOS R.
