So, today was the warmest day of spring we've had so far and we hit a record high temperature of 64 degrees F. I was outside without a coat or scarf on, which in March is pretty frickin' amazing.

I decided to walk from my place in the Midtown Phillips neighborhood down Lake Street about 2 miles to Lake Calhoun. I passed through 2 of my old neighborhoods, LynLake and Uptown along the way.

This is the stuff I took pictures of.

This is the main lobby of the building I live in. This is a crazy sculpture going down the stairs:



Here's the entrance to the Global Market that's on the main floor of my building:



Here's the outside of my building, the main entrance:





This is directly across the street from me. And what you'll notice from the next few pics is that my neighborhood is still kinda shady. But it's up and coming. Renovating the building I live in has been integral to bringing this community back up. What I love is that I live in the most diverse neighborhood in the city of Minneapolis. That makes for great food, great art and great culture.





This is the greenway, though it's not that green yet. It's an old railroad corridor that has been turned into biking and walking trails. Mpls is big on the outdoors:



stuff down Lake St:

Interesting to see.

64 F? Brrrrr

Gross melting snow in a parking lot:



And we hit the LynLkae neighborood:



I love that this is a punk rock music store next to a cowboy shop:



Yummy:



George Clinton gets his hair did here (so did I once upon a time, in fact they did my hair for prom):





I love this sign:



GROSS! (but love the sign!):

your building!!

And we're in Uptown:





Everyone's heard of this place:



This was blowing in the wind, strung across the main intersection in Uptown. I'm not sure if you can tell, but it's a broken heart:





Black snow:

evenstar3 said:

co -

And finally Lake Calhoun (still frozen):









You can see someone doing something CRAZY here. Windsurfing across the ice. Yeah, right in fron of me is open water. People are nuts. There were folks in the middle of the lake playing frisbee too.

Fauxie said:

It was HEAVEN!!!! I almost took my cardigan sweater off, even.

veronikka said:

Thanks, you guys. I love it too! I honestly have the biggest smile on my face everyday when I get home and look up at my building.

Your building is to die for!

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

It's on the national register of historical whatever. And my views go forever.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...e_Building

Your building is lovely. It almost looks like it should be in a Batman movie.

I wanna go and see what's in that NOVEDADES shop.




OMG

evenstar3 said:

Art deco, right?

johnart said:

Here's a bit closer:



There's TONS of murals in my neighborhood. I wish I'd have got a shot of the other side of this one, as there's a big angel that was really neat too.

CarrieMpls said:

omg, i have such memories of that place. mostly you guys tricking me into sitting next to david (though it worked well), and that terrible comedian trying out awful larry craig material on us while we smoked.

CarrieMpls said:

Uncle Hugo's!!! I miss you guys.

Very cool thanks for sharing the pictures girly!! I know what you mean about the weather it was 62 the other day in Chicago I was loving it!

64 IS heaven!~~~!!!

Thanks for sharing those...

I MPLS.

Muse2NoPharaoh said:

CarrieMpls said:

Wow at your building!

I will do a thread like this one day also! Fun to see your neighbourhood!

Wow - Thanks for sharing!

It's been a dream of mine to visit Minneapolis for some time now - but lately I'm just itching to go there.

Definitely my next holiday destination!

Looks like a great place to visit - that is after spring sets in.

Thanks for the mini tour!

Vendetta1 said:

Miss you too!

tackam said:

MPLS you!

HamsterHuey said:

You should!

I feel like I need to wait for spring to really get here to take any more pics. Everything's still dead, brown and grey from winter. We need the green back.

CarrieMpls said:

that's straight up Gotham City

Carrie, Carrie....thank you sooooo much for those Minneapolis pictures. You´ve really made my day. I miss Minneapolis. I really do.
Time to visit my friends there.

KoolEaze said:

Come on over!