Tag: Duluth
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Travel Theme: Bridges
The lift bridge in Duluth, Minnesota is a unique feat of engineering that is best demonstrated as one stands to the side watching the center lift for the numerous lake freighters and ocean vessels that stop in the city. The port of Duluth is the farthest-inland freshwater seaport in North America. The Duluth Public Library has…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved
I struggled with responding to this week’s challenge – to share a photo which represents one of your New Year’s resolutions. I have gotten away from making formal New Year’s resolutions and didn’t think you wanted to see a photo of my messy garage that I resolve to clean and organize by the end of…
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Geometry
This week’s photo challenge sent me away from my archive of digital photos and down to the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota, which epitomizes geometric shape and design. The first photo is my formal response to the Weekly Photo Challenge, taking the advice provided by Quintin Lake, who guest hosted the weekly challenge: Tip: Once…
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Bentleyville ~ Magical Tour of Lights
Irritation festers as I am faced with Christmas holiday decorations before Halloween is even over. I make one exception to these premature December holiday signs that I otherwise despise . . . Bentleyville. In order to bring life to this annual magical tour of lights in Duluth, Minnesota, teams of volunteers must start constructing the scenes and…
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Spooktacular! (Travel Theme: Spooky)
Beautiful Glensheen mansion in Duluth, Minnesota hosted its second annual “Jack O’Lantern Spooktacular” last weekend. The evenings were classic bone-chilling, northern Minnesota fall weather, but they were clear with an almost-full moon for some of the nights of the event, which added to the spooky fun ambience! As you enter the grounds, one of the majestic old trees…
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