I checked out the recently completed Gold Medal Park this afternoon. It’s impressive. Located on the riverfront near the Guthrie, its defining feature is a gently sloping hilltop (which is perfectly accessible) that offers panoramic views of downtown and the booming Mill District. Plenty of other people were there, playing with their dogs or making sketches of the scenery or simply lounging in the grass. It’s a beautiful addition to the neighborhood and provides another reason why I feel fortunate to live downtown. We need more green spaces like this. Might I recommend the city do something similar with the rather bleak expanse of pavement that is the northern end of Nicollet Mall? The area is an eyesore and doesn’t seem to attract much business; sprucing it up would nicely complement the Central Library.
Next time I go, I’ll try to remember to take my camera.
No need for me to have a photograph of what you describe, I’m whisked off to the other side of the world simply by your desciption. As a reward I give you some impression of what is happening here in Izegem: the sun is shining in the long garden, we are waiting for dinner and I hear the regular turning of pages at my right side, always something cosy.
In Belgium one usually has to hesitate: shall we have the apertitiv next to the fire by the hearth, or shall we be able to sit in the grass?
Tonight I start reading TIRZA, by Arnon Grunberg!!! Everybody says it’s a great novel, and it must be , I know the author well. He won The Golden Owl, a prestigious prize with this latest novel of his.
My Enlish may seem a it old-fashioned, sorry for that.
If the Star Tribune has decided to do away with something scarcely ten percent of the population is interested in, the paper yields to the power of money, in the same way TV channels have been doing this for deades now. Why does everything get so commercialised these days. In Dutch we have a word for this trend : “banalisering”.
When I read your blog this morning I was just complaining myself because I had seen in my paper (De Standaard) that for the first time ever, the Queen Elisabeth Contest for classical music is broadcast only after eleven o’clock at night. What a shame, I reacted instinctively.
If one has certain tastes, one can be punished for it these days. Lots of European classical music enthusiasts will go to their job after a much too short night’s rest the following weeks.
Mieke.
And why on earth didn’t I find space to comment by clicking in (or under) tne text you wrote yesterday?