Friday, May 15, 2026

I see that the police have made another visit to King Manor.


Despite all that, I still feel safe while living in King Manor.  I took this image from the pedestrian overpass over East Second Street, looking east.


I bought a bottle of Giffard Banane du Brésil.


I bought banana liqueur for my baker to make banana bread.  The backdrop that I choose is the Chester Creek Bookstore on East Superior Street.

 

This former church once had a Sunday school building west of the church.  If I had the money, I would have bought this Sunday school building, for my new home.  This Sunday school building is now a memory.  Yet, if I could, I would build my new home at the same location.


Yesterday, before I attended Aaron Bransky’s “Duluth 101: Duluth on Rails” presentation;


I walked around the Lincoln Park Neighborhood.  I found another “Anything Helps” sign under the new Highway 53 overpass.



I then found this skull graffiti under the new Highway 53 overpass.



I also found a new section of sidewalk, connecting to a narrower, less maintained, and older section of sidewalk.

 

Rain was falling from the sky when I waited to take the bus back home.  Also, Superior Street was closed for construction.  As a result, I waited on West First Street in the rain, without a bus shelter to keep me drier and warmer.


Thursday, May 14, 2026

I saw that the NPRC is closed today.


An HRA staff member told me that there were too few staff members to open the NPRC in a safe way.  Thus, I did my heart-healthy exercise walking at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.


Wednesday, May 13, 2026

I found an abandoned sock and a stocking cap.


These 2 abandoned items were on the west side of the Bell Bank in the Temple Opera Block, Duluth’s Downtown.  I tend to find the strangest combinations of abandoned items in Downtown Duluth.


What I found in the Downtown Duluth ICO and Dairy Queen building, part 2.


In the men’s rest room, I saw that the old electric hand dryer has additional “art” on the right side.  I am reminded of this quote, “Graffiti is something written on a wall, and, of course, art can be exhibited or produced anywhere: a wall is just another venue. - Matthew Slotover.”


This is my chocolate chip banana bread.


My baker rarely swears.  Yet, she described the banana bread she baked as “damn good”.