Sept. 30, 2009

Sept. 30, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Wise and foolish virgin

Sept. 29, 2009

Sept. 29, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Whitney Recreation Center, St. Cloud

Sept. 28, 2009

Sept. 28, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Note in toilet stall, rest area on west bound Interstate 94 on the Minnesota side of the Wisconsin border. Telephone # smudged to protect Sherry. First stall to your left.

Sept. 27, 2009

Sept. 27, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Mauston WI

Sept. 26, 2009

Sept. 26, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

In a downtown Wooster cafe, I read two newspapers that compete with each other. Fifty years ago, I worked for the Daily Record for three years before going to the Akron Beacon Journal for two. The papers looks the same except for a noticeable decline in news staff and ad space.

Sept. 25, 2009

Sept. 24, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Buzzard's Ledge, Mohican State Forest, Loudonville OH

Sept. 24, 2009

Sept. 24, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Liberty Street, Wooster OH

Sept. 23, 2009

Erik Egge built this house in 1852 on his farm five miles southeast of Decorah. In July 1853, he married Helen Pedersdatter, a widow with two small children. From December 1853 to March 1854, the newlyweds, Rev. U. Vilhelm Koren and his wife Elisabeth, lived with the Egges. Elisabeth’s diary provides detailed insight into what it was like for four adults and two children to spend the winter in a one-room 14-by-16-foot log house. The Egges lived in this house until 1872, raising a family of six.--from the Vesterheim website

Sept. 22, 2009

Sept. 22, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Lila Nelson, 87, of Minneapolis is textile curator at Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum, Decorah IA and an important textile artist in her own right. Her husband John, who died in 1999, was museum director for 35 years. LaVona and her daughter Mona told me much about Lila but I neverf thought I'd meet her. She was in town Tuesday for a conference, I was very lucky.

Sept. 21, 2009

Sept. 21, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

First stop on my Ohio journey was Owatonna where LaVona's granddaughter greeted me with a plate of just baked oatmeal cookies.

Sept. 20, 2009

Sept. 20, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Choir rehearsal room, Paramount Theater, St. Cloud

Sept. 19, 2009

Sept. 19, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

trying to learn Ross Ohlendorf's grip

Sept. 18, 2009

back porch sonambulist

Sept. 17, 2009

Sept. 17, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Charlie

Sept. 16, 2009

Sept. 16, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 15, 2009

Sept. 15, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 14, 2009

Sept. 14, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 13, 2009

Sept. 13, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 12, 2009

Sept. 12, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

skidmarks, St. Cloud Public Library sidewalk

Sept. 11, 2009

Sept. 11, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

The local paper went to press early that morning, hours before the attack on the WTC and Pentagon. As the images and text flowed in, the SC Times ran a second edition with this sheet covering the earlier edition. I found the paper near the bottom of my filing cabinet while clearing out my office for retirement this Spring.

Sept. 10, 2009

Sept. 10, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Brian and Val came up from the Twin Cities for a show closing at Atwood Gallery. Brian's photograph of a Custer SD scene was in the show. Val is a photographer too, she's senior photographer at General Mills headquarters in Golden Valley MN.

Sept. 9, 2009

Sept. 9, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Wood carving with mixed media by Alice Larson. Exhibited at Whitney Senior Center, St. Cloud.

Sept. 8, 2009

spider, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Spider at the university library book drop

Sept. 7, 2009

Sept. 6, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 6, 2009

Sept. 6, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

We met Ray today. He described how he slept on a South Korean mountain side by wedging himself next to a grave that kept him from rolling down. He came to our kitchen door, introduced himself and asked if we knew where our next door neighbor Duane might be. We said he was working as a janitor at Macy's. LaVona asked him in for tea and for the next hour and a half, Ray told stories about his life as a dairy farmer in northeastern Stearns County. He is one of 15 children and, except for two years in the Army, he has never been outside Minnesota.

Sept. 5, 2009

Sept. 5, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 4, 2009

Sept. 4, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Clemens Gardens, This is the most photographed site in St. Cloud

Sept. 3, 2009

Sept. 3, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

LaVona and Chuck at the camera club meeting

Sept. 2, 2009

Sept. 2, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Sept. 1, 2009

Sept. 1, 2009, originally uploaded by TedSher.

Catfish on a stick at the Minnesota State Fair