My son recently launched a #WeatherBalloon with a #camera and some instruments. This #photo is from about 30km up just before the #balloon burst. It's really cool that you can begin to see the curvature of the #Earth from this height and see the darkness of #space. I was on an airliner in this area on the same day and saw some of the same clouds and frozen rivers & lakes my son captured in his photos.
Yesterday I saw my first green grass of the season here.
Rushford Episcopal church. Made by Lewis Pinkney, a former slave and master stone mason who built several similar buildings here in Rushford, Minnesota to help out the George and Harriett Stevens family, abolitionists who have a street here named after them.
My country is going to shit but it’s finally grill season so today feels like things are a little less shit. #minnesota #mnastodon #grilling #cooking
Superior Hiking Trail
Cook County, Minnesota, USA; traditional territory of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, and Michif Piyii (Métis) nations / Explore more at https://bit.ly/SuperiorHikingTrail_2023-09-09
#photography #travel #Minnesota #summer #forest #DoNorthMN #SuperiorHikingTrail
Democrats shooting themselves on the foot, again...
Minnesota state employees protest return to office
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/03/27/minnesota-employee-unions-protests-consider-walkouts-over-office-rule
Are they aiming at their feet?
See it from both the Arrivals and Departures areas at MSP Airport - the Aurora public art light sculpture is a tribute to the Northern Lights in Minnesota -
https://perceptivetravel.com/blog/2025/02/26/aurora-public-art-msp-airport/
An Owatonna man will be sentenced Thursday for the murder of a Minneapolis woman more than 50 years ago.
Genetic testing led to the arrest of now 84-year-old Jon Miller this past November.
Mary Schlais was 25 years old, hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago for an art show, when she was fatally stabbed in February 1974.
Decades after her death, Miller admitted to stabbing her and then leaving her body on a road in Dunn County.
The Suburbs - Rattle My Bones
Superior Hiking Trail
Cook County, Minnesota, USA; traditional territory of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, and Michif Piyii (Métis) nations / Explore more at https://bit.ly/SuperiorHikingTrail_2023-09-09
#photography #travel #Minnesota #summer #forest #DoNorthMN #SuperiorHikingTrail
Republican who introduced Trump derangement syndrome bill arrested for soliciting a minor
A bill brought to the #Minnesota legislature to categorise “Trump derangement syndrome” as a mental illness.
The bill defines the syndrome as “verbal expressions of intense hostility toward” #Trump & “overt acts of aggression & violence against anyone supporting [him] or anything that symbolises [him].”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/minnesota-justin-eichorn-arrested-soliciting-minor
I will be representing the @setiinstitute at the #MiniCon science fiction convention here in #Minnesota next month.
The schedule is now released: https://mnstf.org/minicon58/_programming.php .
If you should be interested in "Talking With Aliens", "Asteroids And The Solar System", and how "Eros Changed Everything".
#MapleSyrupWars
#MapleSyrup
#Minnesota
Maple syruping.
Alt text, A 10 gallon stainless steel pot evaporating on a fire pit grill.
Now would also be a great time for the #Minnesota state legislature to change the vaccine mandates to permit only verified medical exemptions.
Learn from California's example (and thanks there as always to Dr. Richard Pan).
Ensure that both you and any children you care for are current on your vaccinations; #Minnesota - even though this case was not someone exposing people here.
"Minnesotan visiting nation's capitol diagnosed with measles, many exposed"
There is a group called "Science Homecoming" that is encouraging American scientists to write op-eds in their hometown newspapers: https://sciencehomecoming.com/
They are particularly requesting scientists from #Minnesota who are supported by the NIH and NSF.
(Which rules me out, since I am paid by NASA these days - although I have been paid by the NSF before.)
Superior Hiking Trail
Cook County, Minnesota, USA; traditional territory of the Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ, and Michif Piyii (Métis) nations / Explore more at https://bit.ly/SuperiorHikingTrail_2023-09-09
#photography #travel #Minnesota #summer #forest #DoNorthMN #SuperiorHikingTrail
Require better than this, #Minnesota .
QT Minnesota Reformer @mnreformer
2025 March 25
“This approach balances the flexibility of telework with the workplace advantages of being in office,” Gov. Tim Walz said in a release announcing the return to office order
https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/25/gov-walz-calls-state-employees-back-to-the-office-part-time/
@LifeTimeCooking We did the coffee sauce recipe. The flavors were good. However, I could not cook with it like a garlic hot, or ginger hot. Many of our chilli harvest are puréed and fermented as a paste. We can cook a meal and add the paste to taste in addition to the Rempah for an example. #fermentation, #minnesota.
I'm guessing *someone* knows if these branches are intertwined like this for a reason or if someone was bored or just playing around.
