Scarlet Tanager

Yesterday evening I was walking along the river in downtown Minneapolis, by St. Anthony falls when a bird caught my eye.  It was a bright red and black bird.  I am not an ornithologist, but I am aware of some birds.  I know scarlet tanagers are in our area, but I have never seen one.  I wanted to get a picture, Unfortunately every time I got close to it's location it flew to the next tree.  I did have time to compare to pictures on my phone I know it was a scarlet tanager.  The bright red color is  amazing to see.

Pad locks at the Stone Arch Bridge

After our trip to Venice we could help but notice the bridges in Venice and Verona had padlocks attached to the railings.  Margot and Claus explained that these are love locks and are on many bridges in Europe.  For a Anniversary surprise I decided to put two padlocks on a fence railing along the Mississippi River in downtown Minneapolis a week before our wedding Anniversary.  This is the spot that Sue and I would talk Lily for a walk and was always one of her favorite spots. 

Over Memorial weekend Sue and I walked along the river and locks were still there.  I put a larger lock out that had our wedding date and initials and a smaller lock attached to the bigger one for Lily.  I also brought out another small one for Sue to lock to the bigger one for Honey. 

The river was still very high and flowing fast.  The falls were sending up a lot of mist, if it would have been sunny there would have been nice rainbows at the falls.