This historic interpreter at the Grand Portage National Monument (the site where traders met to send furs, especially beaver, from all over the West back to Montreal) makes and paddles his own traditionally-made birchbark canoes (and has even canoed/portaged for 1000 miles in one). If you are in the neighborhood of Grand Portage, he gives [...]

Falls in the Cascade River State Park, alongside the North Shore Highway in Minnesota, just outside of Grand Marais.

A pretty set of rapids along the trail at Rainbow Falls Provincial Park. A monochrome (technically a quad-tone, withcool tone shadows and a very slight warm-tone to the highlights) version.

A shore rock and a mist-shrouded islet on a Lake Superior morning, on the Sea Lion Trail, in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.

There are a variety of rather kitschy pieces of art amongst the modernist pieces at St. John’s, and this sculpture, entitled “Our Lady” and constructed by Oblate Catherine Smith in 1960, really stood out for me. I am not even sure what the religious message is–”Mary will cut you, so stay away!”? Broken glass of [...]

The full inscription (all four sides) on this granite block, near the refectory, reads: To the Men of St. John’s Who Have Served Their Country in Peace and War. The full inscription (all four sides) on this granite block, near the refectory, reads: To the Men of St. John’s Who Have Served Their Country in [...]

A summer electrical storm lights up the night over the modernist abbey church on the campus of St. John’s University, in Collegeville, Minnesota. The impressive storm raged for many hours, but I was unable to stay even an hour, as the driving rain was rendering all my photos blurry, and could not be kept off [...]

The sun sets over ponds on the road to St. John’s University, ending another hot and humid Summer day in Central Minnesota.

An arch holding up the bell tower (if tower is the right word) hangs over a set of concrete seats, next to the entrance to the abbey church, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota. The modernist foyer and baptismal font in the Abbey Church. The statue is St. John the Baptist by Doris Caesar. An overview [...]

A dead tree is reflected in the waters of a beaver marsh, alongside the abandoned bed of the  Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway in Algonquin Provincial Park, Northern Ontario.