New St. Louis River Gallery

On Sunday, before the Labor Day weekend fireworks, I took my camera along on an hour walk along the St. Louis River. I created a 10 photo gallery, see the sample below!



Check out the complete gallery

New Photos!!!

I've got new photos up from yesterday, August 2nd.

I was out fishing and since the fish weren't biting, I took pictures of the sunset.. in segments of about a half hour.

Check Them Out!

New Cloud/Storm Pictures Added

On the CLOUDS page of my website..I added some new pictures from a recent storm. I've never seen clouds come in like that.

Sample/Preview photo:



Click the link above to see the rest.

Random cloud picture

The following is more or less a random cloud picture I took yesterday in between some light rain showers.

Canadian Snowbirds in Duluth

Headed to Duluth to watch the Canadian Snowbirds give a 35 minute airshow, as advertisement for the Duluth Air Show in July. Without a good telephoto lens, I ended up with a few good pictures but someday I'll go the expensive route and get a really good camera capable of extraordinary pictures. For now my 12 Megapixel Kodak Easyshare is perfect for what I usually use it for.

The Canadian Snowbirds aren't nearly as loud as I expected, and incredible maneuverable having only seen the larger jets at the Air Show the one year I attended.







As always, CLICK on the photos to view them in larger size.

When in Duluth, with a camera, a person tends to take pictures of the Aerial Lift Bridge, even though I've taken enough of them in the past, here's 2 more:




One thing I'd never seen before, is a mini 'Statue of Liberty' which is hidden in a courtyard next to the DECC Auditorium. According to the plaque, it was placed there in 1976, the American Bi-Centennial.




On the way home I stopped at the river to fish for a bit....



I caught that small St. Louis River Northern Pike, and a nice Smallmouth Bass, but Bass season doesn't start for a week or two, so they have to be released immediately so no photos of that one.

And finally... the end up the day, the sunset....

It's SPRING (10 days early)

While it's only March 11th, and spring doesn't start until March 21st, I don't care, it's WARM and the snow is melting fast!!



Photo taken at 1:30 pm, and its' STILL 49 degrees 3 hours later!

I'm not a big religious person but I think if there is a God, he must wear NIKE's:



Maybe the Cloud Man (third picture) wears NIKE too.

Short post

This is just a short post with 2 pictures of some clouds the other night before dark. This looked like it was going to open up and pour on us but it really didn't rain at all.




About 3 am we got a lot of lightning and thunder but still it really didn't do much in the way of rain.

Fish, storm, more June 7th

I went down to the river before the storm, it's one of my favorite times to fish, besides the fishing there's always some great pictures of the clouds/storm rolling in. There's also a couple pictures from the EVENING of June 5th, I went out again after the earlier June 5 post. This will be a LOT of pictures:





The first 3 pictures were 'leftover' from June 5th (Tuesday). The Trains are common in Northern Minnesota, BNSF comes through town a lot.



















The clouds came in on the storm from the previous post with the weather channel's storm warning.. you can see the marble size hail that we got int he first round about an hour at at 3:25 PM. They forecast golfball or baseball sized hail so I hope it stays farther south!

June 5th Fishing Pictures

I ended up sorta 'hiking' to a pool of the river, where this time of year you can catch a variety of fish.. today I caught 1 Northern, 2 Smallmouth Bass, and 1 Crappie. See them below








The last photo, of the sky.. I actually took before catching the 4 fish. I don't really know why but I like pictures of the clouds and stuff like that.

No fishing today ;)

I was going to go fishing today but decided I'd just look around by the river as some storm clouds come in instead.




Trying out a few settings on Microsoft Digital Image Editor 2006 also so I want to see how the pictures look online.

Two additions.. no pictures though.. Duluth got some really large HAIL.. like golf and tennis ball size.. the clouds I took pictures of went AROUND us and hit north of Duluth and into Canal Park.. we got lucky..

The other addition is.. I ended up goin fishing tonight cause the weather here changed.. the wind changed to a lot less gusting so I went and caught 1 Northern Pike and 1 Smallmouth Bass.

Fishing May 13th

After watching the NASCAR race I went fishing.. only for an hour:



Today I only caught one Smallmouth Bass.

The CLOUDS below are why I stopped fishing after only an hour today :)




Hopefully this becomes the first real rain of the spring for us.