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Photo on Schmap.com

Good news!
This week, I received a note on flickr from schmap.com, requesting use of one my photos of Brooklyn Botanic Garden:
Check out my flickr pool here. I’ll let you know when this photo makes it live on schmap.com’s New York City site.
An addition to the excitement about the schmap.com selection is the blog that fellow [...]

Country Days Run

I rolled out of bed at 6 am to head into Farmington for the Country Days 1 mile fun run registration.
It’s called a “fun run”, and it really was fun. There were not more than a hundred people in the 1 mile run, which was a contrast from the huge Go! St. Louis 5K I ran [...]

Country Days: This Small Town’s Big Tradition

That’s right y’all, this is small town life at its finest!
Like any other small town, Farmington has a revenue-boosting, visitor-drawing weekend of fun. In other towns, it might be a watermelon festival or a apple harvest. In this small town, it’s Country Days.
Up go fair booths and sidewalk sales and carnival rides, and the streets [...]

Foundation Grounds Coffee

Sitting at Foundation Grounds in Maplewood, intending to work remotely after a morning meeting at Westport, my work servers have crashed, and I’m unable to access emails or files for work.
The coffee shop is lovely, with refreshingly happy and down to earth staff (no snobbish yuppy baristas here). There is a quirky turquoise mural of [...]

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