"I think we're going to be alright" (Take a Walk with Me)

Walking every day this week--and forever--I've snapped some signs in the neighborhoods near the lake.
No sign on this house--I just loved the red maple against the pink stucco. It's condos. I would like to live here:

It's all walking distance to busy streets with buses, but the closer you get to prime lake property, the bigger and snazzier the houses are, until you get proper mansions across the street from the lakes.

The 'Chain of Lakes' themselves (Harriet, Bde Maka Ska, Cedar, and Lake of the Isles) are ringed in public parkland:
you can walk/wheel around all four, and if you follow the connecting path along Minnehaha Creek, you'll reach the Mississippi River and can continue along that too.
It's genius public planning--thank you to city ancestors like Theodore Wirth who worked hard to make it happen! 

Here are some signs...

When I saw this sign--there are many such, and none for Trump--I had a rush of feeling:
I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE ALRIGHT (in the long run).
Pleasegod they win, but history is long, and it's unprecedented that it's the WOMAN of color who is the US presidential candidate of a main party, and the white guy is her support person...

BELOW: Squirrel Camp!

Yay for bicycle supporters!
I bet there's a car (or two) in their garage, but still...
This city continues to build safe bike lanes--more great city planning! Met with some strong disapproval, though.
Change IS hard---and inconvenient to some--but what're the options?
Let's start!

BELOW: I stopped for lunch at Brasa, which serves Creole/Southern US food, like greens and cornbread. The sign says,
"You don't have to be great to start
but you have to start to be great
--Zig Ziglar".

BELOW: Pippi Longstocking lifts a Dala horse (from Dalarna, Sweden ) on a Little Free Library.  Lots of Scandinavians settled here 100+ years ago, and Germans, English...
Then Black Americans in the Great Migration from the South--lots of my thrift store coworkers have roots in states like Mississippi.
The original settlers are Ojibwe/Chippewa/Anishinabe (three names, same people) and Dakota, et al. (www.mnhs.org/fortsnelling/learn/native-americans)
In more recent times, lots of people from Vietnam and Laos (Hmong), East Africa (esp. Somalia), Latin America. Now Afghanistan, Ukraine...
Many good restaurants!

Not everyone supports Harris/Walz.
(You know, the quote is from the movie The Big Lebowski.)

At Lake of the Isles: More good planning!
It took a LONG time to get these trash-catchers installed where street drains empty into the lake.

Halloween approaches! You can see how dry we are. Boo. After a nice long, wet summer, we're back in drought conditions.