A Gallery Of Things

Crowe — [he/she/they] — 22 y/o This is a photography & art sideblog I made bc I have nowhere to show off my pretty photos and the interesting sights I see, both on my travels and at home. It’s fun to see what people like of all the things I can create, y’know?

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Hey! All of the photos I post on this blog are ones I took myself. I’d like to be credited if you use them for recreation or personal reasons, and if someone is interested in getting permission to use one for a commercial reason, I’m open to discussing that.

If you have questions about some of the photos, or about me, go ahead and ask! I’m not giving out info related to personal identification, though.

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Mushrooms in my yard!

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Raw Celestine

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Petrified Wood (with Agate)

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Tumbled Fluorite

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Tumbled Tree Agate

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Tumbled Sunstone

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Time for more shiny rocks!

I got some new rocks at a Pride festival recently, and I wanted to show them off! They’re gorgeous. ^u^

I’ll put one picture of each on this post, then do some posts for each one, individually. I ended up getting tumbled sunstone, tree agate, fluorite, petrified wood, and a chunk of celestine.

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Hey, so I’m back to post a few things! Sorry I’ve been inactive. My brain hyperfixates on subjects and/or hobbies, and then I forget about the vast majority of things unrelated to my current hyperfixation(s).

It’s the ADHD, honestly.

The first photo is one I took a couple weeks ago, due to the air quality being so bad. The second one was a few days later; the air cleared enough to remove the smog, but the sun was still tinted reddish-orange. At least it was pretty?

And again with the poor air quality… this is today’s view of the pond. All three of the photos in this post are unedited. (;–;)

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A few more photos of the beautiful mist.

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Recently, it’d been warm enough to melt a lot of the snow, but the temperature fell rapidly in the evening, since the next few days were going to be very chilly. It made some gorgeous mist hang over everything, and I got some beautiful photos from it!

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There’s a relatively new restaurant in Minneapolis, near Mill City and right by the shore of the Mississippi River, and it’s a restaurant dedicated to indigenous ingredients and foods traditionally eaten by various First Nations people. The menu changes every day, and the restaurant always uses locally-sourced ingredients—and from Native businesses and vendors (as much as possible, I’m not sure if they get ingredients only from those places).

The creator of the restaurant is an indigenous person themself. I don’t know all that much about them… I am only sharing the info that’s been shared with me. This comes mostly from the waiters (who are trained/taught about the things they serve & the restaurant’s mission statement) and local news sources.

The food was really good! If I wasn’t such a damned picky eater (and god how I wish I liked more things), I would’ve eaten pretty much everything, without hesitation. The dishes with ingredients I did like were amazing!

My mother and I went together for lunch, and we ordered bison tartare, a Red Lake trout dish, and the sweet potatoes. I liked all three of them, but I only tried a little of the fish (because it was mixed with beans, and texture is a big issue for me). It was some of the best fish I’ve ever tasted. Seriously.

The menu also has a combination of English and one of the languages from an indigenous tribe in the USA written on it. One side of our menu was Anishinaabe, and the other side was… Ojibwe or Dakota (because my memory is suddenly blanking and I’m pissed off about it, the experience was really cool and I want to remember, dammit).

Anyway, if you’re ever in Minneapolis, or the Twin Cities in general, I very strongly recommend seeing if you can get a table at Owamni. It deserves the hype it’s been getting, in my opinion.

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Another jaunt into downtown Minneapolis recently gave me the chance to take some nice pictures of the city. Only a few are decent enough to post; reflection from the windows inside the car got in the way.

I made sure to get one of the Mill City Museum, which was originally a flour mill. A spark or match set off a huge explosion, and despite the fact that it happened decades ago, the building has never been torn down. It was opened as a museum in 2003.

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I’m just going to post a bunch of the pictures I’ve taken over the past few months, since I haven’t posted anything in a while… sorry about that! ^u^;