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Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.
A little historical info: The 50,000-square-foot Courthouse plaza is designed by Martha Schwartz & features grass mounds planted with Jack Pines, suggesting the glacial drumlins that were common to Minnesota during the Ice Age.
Artistically intriguing, the mounds are designed as security features for the courthouse. The courthouse opened a year after the Oklahoma City bombing and new GSA security requirements dictated that federal courthouses could not contain wide-open spaces. The plaza, therefore, needed to be filled with raised elements.
The whimsical bronze Rockman sculptures by Tom Otterness are an additional artistic touch and are part of GSA's Art in Architecture program.
O'Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine Summer Nationals
Minnesota State Fair
1265 Snelling Ave N, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108 US
Otter tracks in the snow. Otters always seem to be having fun during the winter. I could pick out three separate otter tracks traveling along the edge of the cattails among the deer, coyote, and other tracks.
O'Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine Summer Nationals
Minnesota State Fair
1265 Snelling Ave N, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108 US
O'Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine Summer Nationals
Minnesota State Fair
1265 Snelling Ave N, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108 US
A pretty kick-ass biking and walking trail to Sweeney Lake. This is in Theodore Wirth Park, a sprawling park in the city with numerous mountain biking trails through the woods.
HGS All School Reunion & Jubilee Days ~ 125 Year Celebration!
Beautiful Downtown Main Street, Hardwick, MN
Please attribute to Lorie Shaull if used elsewhere.
A little historical info: The 50,000-square-foot Courthouse plaza is designed by Martha Schwartz & features grass mounds planted with Jack Pines, suggesting the glacial drumlins that were common to Minnesota during the Ice Age.
Artistically intriguing, the mounds are designed as security features for the courthouse. The courthouse opened a year after the Oklahoma City bombing and new GSA security requirements dictated that federal courthouses could not contain wide-open spaces. The plaza, therefore, needed to be filled with raised elements.
The whimsical bronze Rockman sculptures by Tom Otterness are an additional artistic touch and are part of GSA's Art in Architecture program.
The moon has almost fully set as it slides behind buildings on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota campus.