Saturday’s ArtCation Activities

Today I was intending to go see an exhibit on pieces of things together at the Walker Art Museum, but I got lost down at the Mill Ruins area of the river in downtown, then made a wrong turn off the freeway and found myself at the Port of Minnesota. Who knew?

There, I found large, shiny piles of black coal – the kind your parents warned you would be in your Christmas stocking if you didn’t behave. We don’t see coal in California – it’s not a major part of our energy menu. But coal as an energy source here in the midwest is huge, and seeing the piles like that make it all the more real.

Here are some photos from today. Tonight there was a salon at the Phillips-Spayde home and we were treated to Jon’s one man show on the History of the Vibrator. I’ll have pictures and more about that tomorrow. We’re going spelunking tomorrow too!