Everyone is a little drunk

It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. This coming Sunday is St. Patricks day which means this year it is a three day event starting today. The parade will be tomorrow March 16th starting at noon  and will begin at Rice Park, travel down 5th St. E, and end at Mears Park. For those who are not from around here Rice Park is in downtown St. Paul. It will be sunny and in the low 40’s for parade time which is not warm but not too cold either.

2018 St. Patricks Day parade
2018 Saint Patricks Day parade- Kid friendly

Celebrate the luck of the Irish responsibly and get a free ride on Metro Transit on Saturday, March 16, 2024, from 6 p.m. to end of service on all routes–buses and light rail. No fare, no coupons; simply hop on and take a seat for free.

dogs in parade
Pet friendly

I am never even the smallest amount Irish but I do enjoy photographing parades.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

Throwback to March weather

March can be a brutal month weather wise in Minnesota. Sometimes we have spring like weather followed by second, third and even fourth winter. We could still have a blizzard and a cold snap but as of now there isn’t any snow in the forecast and the coldest temperature predicted is 24 degrees.

In case anyone has forgotten what winter looks like in Minnesota in March, here is a photos I tool on March 10. 2019.

Snow - Alexander Ramsey House
Alexander Ramsey House St. Paul, MN

The hot, dry smokey summer of 2023

I recently visited a home buyer client that I worked with last year. He moved to St. Paul from California.  He was moving away from the sky-high home prices and the fires.

He told me that the smoky air that we have been experiencing isn’t nearly as bad as what he experienced in California.

Something to think about as we go through another smoke-filled day.

smoke
Smoke from Canadian wildfires

Throwback Thursday – Power plant edition

Built in the 1920s and was obsolete before it was ever used. At one point it was going to be turned into condos but there were all sorts of issues . . . like the river that made the land hard to develop. The plant was demolished in 2014.

The land is now the home of River View upper landing apartments.  Change seems to happen at a snail’s pace but it happens.

power plant on Mississippi River
Power Plant built in 1923

I watched it being demolished. I am sure I have pictures of that somewhere . . . but where?

 

Throwback Thursday – Pedro Park

Dots being painted on the wall
Pedro Park Painting 2014

The old St. Paul Public Safety Annex building on 10th Street in downtown St. Paul on 10th street is being demolished. Eventually, there will be a new park on the site. I think.

There was a small park on the old Pedro luggage site. There were flowers, chairs, and a mural. I still have a bag or two that I bought from Pedro Luggage.  The site was donated to the city for a park. The safety annex building is next-door and has been vacant for many years and the lot it sat on will be part of the park.

The Pedro Park saga is long and complicated but it is photogenic and because it is right across the street from the Lunds downtown I always seem to be in the right place at the right time to take pictures.

Demolition of the safety annex building
Demolition of the safety annex building

Spring flowers are on the way

It finally feels like spring. The trees should start blooming soon. Tulips are starting to bloom and the hostas are poking up through the soil and so are columbine plants.

Wild columbine
Wild Columbine

Columbine, it is beautiful and plants itself in places where there it is shady with some sun.  Columbine is a woodland plant native to North America and Canada and is a perennial.  Here in the Metro area, these will bloom in late May and early June.