A Tour Of St. Paul’s New Green Line Light Rail Route [VIDEO]

St. Paul blogger (Eccentric Aspects) and photographer Nick Wormley created this awesome timelapse video of what St. Paul’s new Green Line light rail line from our capital city to Minneapolis will look like once it starts running in 2014. How’d he do it? By walking the length of the route with a camera attached to his head (here are the details)! H/T @generebeck,

This is the exact same light rail line I will be taking every day to Minneapolis for my new venture next year. Watch and enjoy:

8 Panoramic Photos Of Minnesota From The 1900s [GALLERY]

At the turn of the century, photographer George R. Lawrence traveled the United States and took panoramic photos along the way, eight of them in Minnesota. Mr. Lawrence would likely be dismayed to learn how easy it has become to shoot panoramic photos! Read more here and see the full collection here.

Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota – 1906

George R. Lawrence Photo: Minnehaha Falls, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1906

International Harvester’s Flax Twine Plant In St. Paul, Minnesota – 1907

George R. Lawrence Photo: Flax Twine Plant - International Harvester - St. Paul, Minnesota 1907

George R. Lawrence Photo: Flax Twine Plant - International Harvester - St. Paul, Minnesota 1907

Hutchinson, Minnesota  – 1901

George R. Lawrence Photo: Hutchinson, Minnesota 1901

New Ulm, Minnesota – 1906

George R. Lawrence Photo: New Ulm, Minnesota 1906

St. Cloud, Minnesota – 1902

George R. Lawrence Photo: St. Cloud, Minnesota 1902

Minnesota House Of Representatives – 1901

George R. Lawrence Photo: Minnesota House Of Representatives 1901

Minnesota Senate – 1901

George R. Lawrence Photo: Minnesota Senate 1901

Tavern On Grand – Best Walleye In The Twin Cities

Okay, this is a new thing I’m going to do in conjunction with my . I will occasionally write up a little blurb on places in the Twin Cities  that I like for one reason or another and then link to these posts from my Twin Cities mashup. We’ll see if it drives traffic deeper into my blog. Without further ado, then…

My eldest sister is the best! I absolutely love and she knows it because I took her there when she visited from Vermont for her annual trek through the . She remembered and sent me a gift certificage from Tavern On Grand for Christmas. Sweet!

Whenever I have friends or family in from out of town, I take them there for the Walleye dinner. It’s about seventeen, eighteen bucks for a two-fillet dinner but it’s worth every penny. Uhhhhhhhh, so good. They’ve got plenty
of seating but a small bar, so if you’re going there to hang at the bar and take
in a baseball game, good luck.

Not only do they have the best Walleye
ever, but they serve as well. They have wi-fi access, but it’s restricted. ASIDE: You
might want to mention something to them about that ;-).

Check out more cool places around the metro at my .

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Twin Cities Mashup

I’ve started a Twin Cities bars, restaurants, entertainment and just places I like Google mashup. Click on the balloons for each location to get a popup text box with more information. There are also links below the map you can use to the same effect. I’ll try and add a location a day. You can always get to it by clicking the link on the sidebar on the right.

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