Will and the Loons

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@mnaurorafc.bsky.social community owner Wanderer who planted roots late in life in beautiful Minnesota, trying to stay curious & kind Day by Day. ⚽️ fan. Book and music lover. Embracing my inner child and my outer old man. #YNWA

A European-style caution sign (red-outlined triangle) with a red silhouette of a squirrel, and which reads, “Red Squirrels Drive Slowly.” The sign is surrounded by lush green woods.
Cover of the band Cake’s 1996 album “Fashion Nugget,” which, as is typical of their covers, shows the band name and title on simple script, and has a simple and pointless one-color graphic, in this case, a crown, in the center.
The cover of Aimee Mann’s 1995 album “I’m With Stupid,” which shows her looking into the refrigerator, her face hidden behind the open door, on which colorful fridge magnets spell out her name and the album title.
The front cover of Johnny Cash’s 1996 album “American Recordings II: Unchained.”
A picture of the cover of Uncle Tupelo’s 1992 album “March 16-20, 1992.”
Screenshot of a Tweet from June 2022 by Dr. Danny Bate, a linguist, that reads “I didn’t realize until today’s walk around Peebles that I could have a favorite road sign.” Below it is a European style caution sign (inverted red-bordered triangle) that has a picture of a lamb appearing to jump and below which it reads LAMBS JUMP UP FROM NOWHERE.
A European highway caution sign (an upside-down red triangle) that reads “Lambs Jump Up From Nowhere.” It’s posted along a low rock wall beside a green pasture that extends to the horizon and the hill in the background. I think it’s from Scotland.
A link of a New York Magazine story featuring a pic of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and headlined, “Trump and the Left May Insist on Government Shutdown This Fall.”
Tweet from former Real Madrid midfielder and German national team player Toni Kroos (himself a World Cup winner in 2014), dated today, stating that “Football won.”
Screenshot of a skeet from yesterday saying the prez had activated his usual curse against his favored teams when he goes to sporting events. In this case, it was after he had taken the side of the Argentine team after it was pointed out that they had breached FIGA rules against political banners at games, when players had held a banner saying the Falklands belong to Argentina (not the UK) at the end of the England game.
Screen shot of the headlines on ESPN about the USMNT’s very predictable loss to Belgium Monday night: “Who’s to blame for USMNT’s World Cup exit? Rating every player’s performance” “Belgium handed USA a World Cup reality check — and now the inquest begins.”
Lt Gov Peggy Flanagan, wearing her Team USA hat and holding a bottle of Corona in hand, just talking with the people in the crowd gathered at the Black for US-Bosnia match at the World Cup.
A Minnesota Adopt-a-Highway sign showing that the coming section has been adopted by “Family of Dog Kisses.”
An 20-foot-tall inflated replica of a red Swedish wooden horse, flanked by the flags of Sweden and Minnesotas, the two countries I come from. At today’s Midsommar celebration at the American Swedish Institute.
Football fans gather on the patio of the Black Hart of St Paul to watch the US face off against Australia.
A page from Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen showing three bakers in white baker’s hats making cake, one holding a wooden kitchen spoon like a guitar, and they are singing “Milk in the Batter! Milk in the Batter! We bake cake! And nothing’s the matter!”
A silhouette in the window of an ICE detention center, with coils of barb wire in the foreground
Vietnam-era poster expressing a Vietnam-era wish: “What if they gave a war and nobody came?” This is written in cursive over a painting whose bright colors are straight out of Van Gogh. It depicts a scarecrow made from rusting metal pieces and wearing a gas mask, set in a grassy field filled with spring flowers, spreading back toward green hills and a deep blue sky, in which the sun sparkles.There’s no one around but the seven white doves perched on the scarecrows arms and flying around its head.
A picture of fictional singer Otis Day, with the equally unreal band The Knights behind him, both from the 1978 movie Animal House.
Map of the world showing countries in the northern hemisphere, highlighted in black, that don’t celebrate international workers day on May 1. English-speaking counties are most prominent: the US, Canada, the UK, Ireland, and Australia. The Netherlands, Denmark, Japan and Saudi Arabia are also highlighted. India and South Korea are indicated red for partial observance, by certain religious or ethnic groups.
A half-full glass of a golden colored beer (a Maibock, a Spring beer from Germany, or, in this case, Minnesota).
A photo showing a building, a nuclear power plant, with one side blown away and rubble piled below.
Kid looks at flowers, balloons, cards and other mementos, many purple, left on the chain-link fence surrounding Paisley Park after Prince’s death.
A picture of a slice of deep-dish “Chicago style” pizza sitting on a white plate that Chicagoans tend to say isn’t Chicago style and which is made in Oakland, California. The cheese is on the bottom, topped by a layer of spinach and mushrooms and the top is a deep layer of tomato sauce. It’s been topped with flakes of basil and crushed red pepper.
A young boy looking at purple balloons and cards and notes and other mementos left on the fence surrounding Paisley Park in Chanhassen.
A view of a rest area closed because of piles of snow blocking the entrance, with the Mackinac suspension bridge in the background. Sunny and with blue skies.
A moped with just a few clumps of snow on its headlamp, mirror and seat. The nearby ground has none.
A view from the front seat of a car approaching the towers of a suspension bridge, while a truck is approaching on the opposite lanes. It’s a bright sunny day and the sky is blue.
The Mackinac Bridge from a distant viewpoint and a lot of ice in the Mackinac Strait and on both the Lake Michigan and Lake Huron sides.
The Italian cross country ski team surrounds retiring teammate Federico Pellegrino on the podium after he had collected his awards for winning today’s sprint race Abe coming in third place in the sprint category for the season.
Jessie Diggins skis out from the starting gate at the World Cup sprint qualification at Lake Placid
Minnesota native and Team USA cross-country skier Jessie Diggins races down a snowy hill to loud cheering by spectators at the FIS cross-country World Cup races in Lake Placid, New York this weekend.
A can of, and a glass full of, a stout beer from local brewer Wooden Hill
The “I Scream You Scream We All Scream” scene from the Jim Jarmusch film “Down by Law” in which the three leads dance around in a circle inside a jail cell.
A row of gas pumps at a Kum & Go station
A bowl of chilaquiles—a fried-up mix of eggs, tortilla chips, meat, veggies, cheese and salsa.
A semla bun—a Swedish whipped-cream filled bun for the Lenten season—a caffe latte on a table at a cafe.
Signs in the yard of a southwest Minneapolis house, two with the faces of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, the other reads “GTFO.”
A picture of a semla, a Swedish sweet bun with the top cut off and the inside filled with mascarpone and whipped cream and the top put back on like a hat.
A Waymo car from behind, with its brake lights on, stopped at a red light at Lake St and E Bde Maka Ska Dr.
Signs in a snowy front year, two showing the faces of Renee Good and Alex Pretti and a third saying GTFO
A photo celebrating Norwegian Johannes Hoesflot Klæbo’s absolute dominance this Olympics, winning a gold medal in every men’s event, 6 for 6, culminating with a win in the 50K classic-technique race today.
A plate with two semla buns on it. These are the traditional Swedish Mardi Gras pastry, with the center cut out and filled with almond (or chocolate or raspberry) mascarpone and topped with whipped cream.
White blossoms of a magnolia tree
US cross-country skier Ben Ogden double-poling to the finish in today’s cross country skiing sprint races, in which he took a surprise silver medal, the US men’s first cross-country medal in 50 years.
Hundreds of lanterns made of ice hung out around Lake of the Isles in Minneapolis on Saturday Feb 7 as part of the annual Luminary Loppet fundraiser to raise money for year-round youth outdoor activities. Participants walk or ski around a two-ish mile course lit by more than a thousand luminaries and lanterns, all made of ice and lit with candles.
An ice sculpture in memory of Renee Good that has the words carved, “See the Good.”
A line of luminaries made of ice marking the trail of the Luminary Loppet around Lake of the Isles.
A picture of a semla, a Swedish pastry filled with whipped cream and mascarpone that is traditionally made before the start of Lent, although they’re so delicious people cheat on the dates.