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      • Someone got another big grant
        10/31/06

        If you spend any time on River Road, you have no doubt seen the new "Reflections" sculpture constructed near Keelboat Park. It appears to be near completion now, except for signage, and prompted me to wonder, "how much did we pay for that?"

        Don't get me wro

      • Campione del Mondo- the Kentucky Kid
        10/30/06

        Yes, I'm starting off the week with one of those post-race motorcycle entries instead of something local. Actually, since I've talked to the guy on numerous occasions over at our home track in Brainerd, it feels local. This weekend was the deciding race in the MotoGP World Grand Pr

      • Northern Lights tease
        10/29/06

        I was about ready for bed last night when I got an exciting call from a friend: the Northern Lights are bright tonight! So I grabbed my wife and a couple of good friends, hopped in the truck, and blazed up north. The auroras were visible, the night relatively calm but cool. And while the s

      • Friday night bridge
        10/28/06

        So, after spending all day hiking around a coal mine and filming from a 10 million pound crane (cool!), I decided that the cure for standing out in the cold and hiking all over was...yes, that's right: standing out in the cold and hiking all over! Bismarck, however, was ever so slightly

      • Fiesta Moon
        10/26/06

        Obviously this picture wasn't taken this week; the phase of the moon and the leaves on the trees betray that. But it's one of those photos I've got "in the holster" for when I need them, and it came to mind tonight as I read an article by Tessa Sandstrom in the new is

      • Name that statue
        10/26/06

        Apparently a few people thought my Name that Fountain post was kinda fun, so I'll throw this one at you. Perhaps I should use the word "identify" instead of "name" for this, as I'm sure they already have names. In any case, let's see how much time you spend

      • Help out for a good cause
        10/25/06

        No, I'm not introducing any BMB swag just yet... but I am helping out for a good cause. There's a girl at our church who sells calendars for two purposes: she plays the violin, and as she gets older she needs a larger fiddle to play. The second cause is our church, as she gives a g

      • Stickin' it to the Man
        10/24/06

        One of the things one does when he's forced to convert his office to a nursery (at least half of it, for the time being) is to condense things as much as possible. That means a lot of little trinkets I want to keep for sentimentality's sake are getting stuffed into my big ol' f

      • I made those arrows
        10/23/06

        My friend Lance says that some things are funny simply because they're repeated often enough. That's certainly the case in our house with the phrase "I made those arrows."

        I got the idea for this impromptu post because I heard *ahem* from my wife in the living r

      • Monday = Sun Day
        10/23/06

        One of the characteristics of a North Dakota autumn is the variation in the sun. Not only does it cause temperature swings during this time of year, but it also puts on many faces. Gone are the evenly lit afternoons of the summer, replaced with long, stark shadows even on the clearest of day

      • Geocaching
        10/23/06

        Yep, my wife and I have a new hobby. It's called Geocaching, and it's a blast...in a nerdy sort of way. It goes a little something like this:

        You go to the Geocaching website and find a cache near your location. Then you grab your trusty GPS receiver and head out to fin

      • It's a living
        10/21/06

        If someone asked me what we'd be doing on Thursday, I wouldn't have said we were going to go to Walmart and buy an aquarium. I wouldn't have said I'd spend a good chunk of my afternoon in a dark studio, sitting in a reasonably comfy chair and clicking the remote shutter re

      • Happy Birthday!
        10/20/06

        This is a happy belated birthday to our fluffy little friend, Scooter. He was hatched on October 16th, nine years ago! He was hand fed for a while and weaned at the Bird House...when he and his brothers and sisters came to the store, they let me pick the first one of the batch! I picked him

      • Hawk a-hunting
        10/19/06

        I was on my way from work to pick up a Green Mill pizza last night when...what? Yes, as a matter of fact I *do* take the long way. Okay, let me start over. I was on my way from my office east of Bismarck to the Green Mill by way of the Briardale area, or thereabouts. The sky looked like it

      • Welcome sight in the skies! The 112th
        10/18/06

        I was out looking for pheasants this afternoon and saw a different kind of bird overhead. One of the local Blackhawk helicopters was performing maneuvers, so I stopped to observe. When they drop in fast, they're really cool to watch!


        What this reminded me of, though, is

      • Been there, crashed that
        10/17/06


        Well...sorta. This video was the scene of the MotoGP World Championship race from this past weekend. My favorite GP rider and fellow American, Nicky Hayden, held the points lead in the world championship going into this weekend. Then tragedy struck. What you see in the video above is

      • Grant's Tomb
        10/17/06

        This is the monument marking the grave of Grant Marsh. You may recognize his name from the bridge over the Missouri River on I-94. He was a ferry boat captain back in the 1800s, and has accomplished some noteworthy feats. One of them is outlined on this marker.

        I want to be more

      • Spooky Sunday
        10/15/06

        This is hardly the image I expected to bring back from the river bottoms this afternoon, but the opportunity was too good to pass up. Yes, that's right...this image was shot at around 4:30 in the afternoon. With the use of a polarizer and a throttled-down iris, I was able to get this pi

      • If deer could read
        10/14/06

        These deer don't have to...as long as they stay put. They seem pretty comfortable along the Heart River in Mandan, near the YCC. They were grazing pretty happily when I came along, and weren't even took shaken by the presence of me or my truck. If they know what's good for

      • Cold snap
        10/13/06

        With temperatures as much as twenty to thirty degrees below the statistical normal for this time of year, it looks like someone got caught unprepared in my neighborhood. I spotted this poor little guy huddled under a car, trying to keep warm. I don't think this is Greg because he'

      • Column of snowfall
        10/11/06

        Today's snowfall came in an unusual, spotty fashion. As I watched the waves of snow roll by, I noticed this big column down ol' Highway 10. While I stood taking this photograph, it felt like a similar column of cold and snow rolled right over the top of me! With highs today almost

      • Those union IR - Bobcat strikers are a joke
        10/10/06
        After helping a friend move in the rain tonight, I drove past Bobcat and saw a few picketers putting in a cold night. They waved as I went by, obviously trying not to look like they're standing out there in raw greed. I waved back but I certainly disagree with them.

        Factory work ha

      • BAGA!
        10/09/06
        Have you heard of those people who have lived in New York City for a long time but never visited the Statue of Liberty or other landmarks? There are a lot of them, and I'm pretty sure that there are millions of local equivalents anywhere you go. In Bismarck-Mandan, I happen to be one of those

      • In loving memory...
        10/09/06

        This memorial hangs atop a gravesite at the pet cemetery east of Bismarck, on the grounds of the McDowell Dam recreation area. There are two large sections of the pet cemetery there...many with the standard concrete grave marker, others with hand made memorials such as this one, and some with

      • Keep your eyes on the ND skies
        10/07/06

        While I was busy running around the state with a video camera this week, the beautiful sunsets kept coming. We're now in a state of full moon, which means we're on track for a new moon (ie, no moon) for the Orionid Meteor Shower in a couple of weeks. We've had Aurora Borealis

      • Still warm enough to bathe outside
        10/05/06

        As demonstrated by this pair of robins and their more skittish friends who chose not to hang around for a photo, it's still pretty nice out. These guys were splashing around like crazy in a little natural spring east of Bismarck.

        Robins are fun to watch when there's water

      • How to read a local news report
        10/04/06

        Read this online report from KXMB, titled "ND Farm Bureau Endorses Goehring" and tell me if something isn't out of wack:

        "The North Dakota Farm Bureau has endorsed Republican challenger Doug Goehring for North Dakota Ag Commissioner.

        Goehring is runnin

      • Target's early opening night Tuesday
        10/03/06

        Tonight was the "Friends and Family" night at the new Target store. In addition to the pianist and flutist performing, they also had free chow from DiDonna's.

        I actually didn't walk around the store, come to think of it. I perused the much larger electronics dep

      • My next poster
        10/02/06

        As an amateur photographer I get pretty excited when one of those REALLY cool shots finds its way into my camera. This is one of them! While taking a nature walk with my beautiful wife, she pointed out this bird to me. He was getting in place to watch a really dramatic sunset, so we joined

      • Name that fountain
        10/02/06

        Better yet - tell me where it is! That's because I know where it is, obviously, but don't know if it has a name. I see this fountain regularly, and last night the moon was positioned directly above it. I could have taken the picture from a slightly different angle to make it look

      • Aurora Borealis! October arrives with a lightshow
        10/01/06

        This is just one example of the varied Northern Lights display that took place Saturday night. I'd finished up with a meeting at church and took a detour on the way home to my wife when I saw it - the spikes of light on the northern horizon! Needless to say, I dashed home to get her, the

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