Parking Lot Weeds - Edina, MN

July 1 #43 - $69

Weeds in Upscale Neighborhoods - Edina, MN

1 July 09 - Weeds - #16 / #15

I hate eating lunch in the break room of my office. Mainly because I do not care for 1 minute of sports talk. Plus, one dude slurps his soup ceaselessly, and another talks with his mouth full and has a lot to say. On every nice day, I head across the road to an abandoned parking lot to eat my lunch. I pull up the the edge and watch the nature: hawks hunting, swallows swooping, orioles orioling (?), and there are lots of bees and bugs and other interesting things.

For most of this summer, the edge of the field has been filled with these purple-flowered weeds. Bees love them. I love them, too. This image is of weeds growing through the cracks of the concrete. Nature is a persistent force, no?

I'm kicking around this as a new project. Weeds in Upscale Neighborhoods. Edina is pretty swanking. High school kids will call Edina high school kids "cake eaters." The homes and yards in Edina, MN are beautiful, immaculate. The only seedy side is really just weeds in parking lots.

Art Exhibit - Spotaneous - SpotArt Gallery - NE Mpls, MN

Artist Reception at SpotArt on Friday 7/24 from 7-11pm

1824 Marshall St NE, Mpls, MN

Artists, in order of appearance here: (Ethan Arnold, Scott Seekins, Michael McGraw, Arnie Hamel, Tim White, Keri Schneider, Michael Thomsen).

Music at 8. Art is for sale. Yo!

Buck Thorn - Black and White

Does the Buck Thorn lose some of its revulsion factor if it is a pretty image in black and white?

I think so.

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(I like that at this time of year the Buck Thorn and the Crab Apple both have similar-looking seeds).

Crab Apple Blossoms - Chicago - Thorns

2 June #192

3 Weeks after the last blossoms can be found in the Twin Cities, Crab Apple Tree Blossoms can be found blooming in Evanston, IL.

Notice the Thorns hovering over the blooms.