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Good Old Days Water Pollution: Des Moines, Iowa

Back in November, Joe and my wife Jackie and I attended a painting workshop at the Greenbush, Minnesota Library offered through an activity that "... is funded, in part, by a grant from the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council and the Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund as appropriated by the Minnesota legislature with money from the vote of the people of Minnesota on November 4, 2008,” and facilitated by Northwest Minnesota area artist Trey Everett. Held in a variety of locations throughout the region, we were provided a 12×12 canvas, supplies and instruction to create a piece of art around the theme "WE ARE WATER." Water can be a source of recreation; it keeps us alive; it is used for daily life. Participants were encouraged to bring snippets or photographs or anything else they might want to use as material, medium, or inspiration.  Forty-four completed artwork have been on display in the NWMAC Gallery, in East Grand Forks, since November and will run thr

Yet To Come. Severe Cold.

10W-30 motor oil pours like sludge at thirty below zero .

Lily Pads on Mikinaak Creek

Lily pads accent a bend on Mikinaak Creek.

In The Mikinaak Mists

Mists arise from Mikinaak Creek at sunrise  as a deer walks the bank.

Ferns and Popple Leaves

Fiddle fern fronds and poplar leaves, an autumn still life

Roseau County Rush Hour Traffic

An ag sprayer and a combine pass each other on MN Hwy 89, south of Roseau Minnesota, a scene common to rural communities .

Bagley at Sunset

  Bagley, Minnesota grain elevator at sunset taken from US Hwy 2  Small rural towns in Minnesota offer unique skylines, such as does Bagley at the interesection of MN Hwy 92 and US Hwy 2. Grain elevators are often the tallest structures in those towns--or is the water tower. Bagley has an old water tank aside the railroad tracks, as I recall, south of the intersection mentioned above, on the west side of Hwy 92, and northside of the tracks, that I think was used back in the steam engine days for taking on water. I may be mistaken, but it looks old enough to have been used for that purpose.  This style grain elevator evokes days gone by, especially at the close of day. --WannaskaWriter