2019
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The annual Poetry & Pie in the park. Delicious food for the body & soul.
"Park pitch" Gabriel Bodkin, left, hurls a wooden baton towards a block during a game of Kubb at Powderhorn Park. Kubb is a Swedish lawn game where players try to knock over an opponent's blocks (kubbs) with the baton or kastpinnar. Bodkin teamed up with her daughter, Calliope, right, to take on her son, Fenric.
"Ascending Summer Energy"
"Painting pickets" Gen Labett, 6, and her brother, Aiden, 5, helped a friend paint a picket fence for their grandfather, Everett Bigbear, who lives on 17th Avenue South. Jeffrey Lofgren was supposed to be priming the fence, but "they insisted on helping," he said.
The month of Ramadan is coming to an end. Wishing my fellow Muslims a blessed last day(s) of Ramadan and an early Eid Mubarak!
Joy was in the air on this first warm and humid day of the year. Powderhorn park upper meadow was full of soccer, families playing, and dandelion seed wishes.
5/27/19 Alejandra (Tobar Alatriz)
"A glimpse from above" From porous to impervious, we are ready for rain. This view shows the balance of geometry and intentional structure in our urban life. What a solid perimeter these brownstones make around our beautiful, wild Powderhorn Park.
Joe Murals doing a community memorial piece of Nipsey Hussle who recently passed away and his girlfriend Lauren London- on the H8H Customs building on Chicago & 38th
After a long swim across the lake, a gaggle of goslings huddled together under mom's wing, warmed and sheltered from the rain. Then, one by one, they popped out to snack on the grass together, never straying far from mom or dad, or each other.
"The surprise of winning!" Reclaim the Block Construction founders Victoria Moorhead and Alex Dixon hear the news that they won 2nd place in their category at Shark Tank!
Singing to the dawn Cantando al amanecer
"Fairy Home" A little magic lives in Powderhorn
Oftentimes, the most blissful moments of spectating baseball have nothing at all to do with baseball.
"pre-grilling nosh" It's stoop & grilling season!! photo from the stoop of the Castle
"Self-portrait, inspired by Ai Weiwei" I drop not a treasured artifact from millennia past, rather a ceramic work of my own. Truth exists not in objects of the past, rather in our resilience in their wake, growth in their destruction. The unbreakable must turn to fragments. Only truth can do that.
"June Glow"
"Becky and the boys" Becky Carlson shared the front yard hammock with her sons, Zachary, 7, and Elliott, 9, after they arrived home from school Wednesday. Mother and sons have found the right way to share without tipping the hammock.
The set (designed by Joseph Stanley) of Blood Knot at @phousetheatre. Blood Knot, by Athold Fugard, is "a parable of two brothers who share a one-room shack near Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Equally important today as it was at the time of its 1961 premiere, Blood Knot is a poignant, piercing metaphor for racial tension, powerfully acted by James A. Williams and Stephen Yoakam." You can catch Blood Knot at Pillsbury House + Theatre through June 16th!
I Happened along Casey creating beauty at the corner of Bloomington and 35th. Ephraim Eusebio invites artists to create a mural each year for the Bloomington side of Modus Locus Gallery, and this year Casey is one of our neighborhood beauty makers. check him out @blackdazeart
5/20/19 Alejandra (Tobar Alatriz)
"A Steep Climb" On the other side of the top of the steps is a man not wanting to be photographed, lifting a big basket of trash with one hand into the dumpster while holding a white pup in the other. All while successfully holding a lit cigarette with his lips. Or maybe what’s on the other side is just the next tiny step in your big audacious goal. Who knows, really. #begin
..it's that spring moment..day..week when all the Lilacs bloom...it often does feel and seems like they all explode at once..sometimes when walking or biking or even in the car with the windows down you can smell them almost before you see them ❤
"Born to Love"
Friday evening overlooking Powderhorn Park - sunny & stormy all at once.
Relish what you share | Muster the courage to speak up
"Worms!!"
6/3/19 Alejandra (Tobar Alatriz)
"Street fighters on a bench" These three teenage boys light up a corner of Powderhorn Park with their sporadic, multilingual outbursts of commentary about the video game they were playing together through their individual devices. A twist on the ole ‘go play outside’ suggestion.
The pool is open for business!
Seek reflection and enchantment in this incredible park.
The trillium flower is a rare sighting in Powderhorn in the springtime, here for a few weeks and then disappearing without a trace like all spring ephemeral wild flowers. A beautiful bit of the wild in our urban landscape.
"Deep Dive Service" Divers Charles Smith, left, and Dan Hoy rise out of the water at Powderhorn Park after placing GPS locators on pipes for aeration, intake and discharge. Winter ice tends to be thinner at these points and GPS tracking will allow park staff to know where to place warning markers. Smith and Hoy were with Long Lake-based Waterfront Restoration.
Finding the beauty in a cold and rainy day.
"Girls On The Run" Running coach Jenna Birkeli, left, and fourth-grader Ibtisam Hussein enthusiastically spring from the start of a practice 5K run at Powderhorn Park. Ibtisam is among 18 girls from Bancroft Elementary School participating in the Girls On The Run program and have prepared all spring to run in a statewide race on June 1.
