Driving Around the Northern Suburbs on the 4th of July by Myself
Yeah… Pop-up tents in parking lots selling minor explosives…That says summertime in Minnesota… For July 4th, 2026, I chose to spend the morning driving around taking pictures. Which is something I used to do nearly every weekend, when I lived in Colorado. Of course I was getting off work between 5-6am, there, instead of 9-10pm, here. Can’t do a whole lot of outdoor photography when the sun is gone. And since I’m not keen on waking up at 6am ever, those drives pretty much don’t happen anymore. After I wrote about the drive my dad and I took in 2018 , last month, I really wanted to do it again. Great way to clear your mind of all the nagging yuck that tends to fill life these days… Decided that I was going to revisit some of my favorite locations that I either have written about (to update them), or plan on writing about (more gathering of material) someday. I finished the morning having taken almost 300 pictures, so here’s the ones I chose to write about. This will end up serving ...