Don't take no for a photo

I thought I was being sly getting this unposed photo in Allie's in the Dain Tower, but

Scott asked me what I was taking pictures for.  I told him about the blog while

Grabbing this photo of a banana cloud floating over the yogurt fields.

Allies, hot breakfast sandwiches $2.99. Try the #2, croissant with American cheese ham and egg. Delicious.

Billy Chopper sings the Skyways in Minnesota

Ben and Tana are going to perform at the Government Center Summer on the Plaza tomorrow. I told them of Diana's interest and called her. She made the arrangements and who knows, maybe they will get more offers. Buenas suertes en sus viajes, amigos.

Grand manners

John the doorman at Grand Hotel on 2nd Ave flashes a welcoming smile. How could you tell he is a doorman? Is it the hat, the vest, or the flair on his vest? Or maybe the whistle. Or that he is holding the door, which no one does anymore?

Troubadors on the skyway

The Government Center-to-USBank skyway hosted an impromptu concert today. I stopped to read their poster. Very Motorcycle Diaries. I can't read Spanish as I used to, so I am including a link to their blog.
One of their entries does include a record of their first encounter with a skyway.

The glass sky

Dale Chihuly's glassware in the Capella University Towers is worth a lunch trip to see. This piece is on the 3rd Ave. side, at the entrance to the Baker building side.

Sanctuary with guard

A silent sanctuary guarded by the ATM machine in Ameriprise.

Composition with cross and zig-zags

A gothic view of Campbell-Mithun over the shoulder of the Minneapolis Club.

Variations on a relief

The variations on this heraldic shield shape are subtle. It has been turned into a series of tulip bulbs by the rain and soot of the city, no two alike.

Composition with cones

Portal to the subterranean urban world.

Latest Campbell Mithun merger

The latest Campbell Mithun merger is with the sky, seen here over the shoulder of the venerable Minneapolis Club.

Skyway cubism

The intersecting geometries and fractured planes seen from the Baker Building skyway promenade, looking into the couryard.

The play of shape and texture in HVAC gear

Look one way in the Baker building concourse and you see elegant photos of historic Minneapolis. Glance out the window into the courtyard, and you find these textures and shapes creating their own rugged compositions.

The theater of lunch, continues

Floor to ceiling windows and close quarters in the skyway turns the space into an art museum, and all the seated figures remind me of Keinholz and Segal sculpture.

Signals from within

Waiting for bags of chalupas, burritos, tacos, tex-mex tantalizers.

8th and Marquette, looking Northeast

In the IDS south skyway, a reflection of the Foshay.