Teresa Boardman

Here in St. Paul we have many large and small city parks. I am finding wildflowers in them and started taking pictures of them. I ended up with so many pictures that I started a Minnesota wildflower blog. When I find pictures of flowers online often they are not labeled, or if they are they are labeled with the wrong name or simply called "yellow flower". I ended up buying a book about local wildflowers so that I can identify more of them. I found some resources on the Internet for identifying flowers and included links in the sidebar of my blog.

The Minnesota wildflower blog is just a way of publishing and labeling the photos. I noticed that it started getting traffic from google immediately. The traffic is coming from people like me who are trying to identify flowers. The blog is just a hobby and more of a web site than a blog. When I have a picture I post.

Blue Vervain

Black eyed susan

Butterfly weed

Most cities have zoo's. I don't go very often but last week my neice and nephew were visiting so I took them to como park zoo just for the heck of it. I can't remember what it is they were fighting about but it seemed like they had a good time, but they did get on aunties last nerves when they started arguing about who started arguing. I guess my kids did that too. We have a very nice Zoo and this summer there is a wonderful butterfly exhibit. I am going to go back alone as soon as I get the chance and take more pictures.

Want to see more of St. Paul, MN? visit my photo albums on the St. Paul Real Estate Blog.

Quiet down along the river. Too early in the season for those wonderful moon light cruises.

The Ordway is packed.

There is a Minnesota Wild game going on at the Xcel center and a large roof top tail gate party on the parking ramp.

The local bars in and around downtown are packed.

Fun to walk around on a Saturday night and take pictures. Now that the weather is warmer the streets are full of activity again.

St. Paul Cathedral, St. Paul, Minnesota. I never get tired of photographing this building, both inside and out. Built in 1905, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, a French architect trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, was selected to design what we know today as the fourth Cathedral of Saint Paul. The church is made of Granite stone from St. Cloud, MN

The Cathedral's most prominent feature is a 120-foot-wide dome made of curved steel beams, covered with a clay tile surface and overlaid with copper. A copper-clad lantern, approximately 30 feet tall, sits on top of the dome. From the base to the very top of the lantern, the Cathedral stands 306 feet tall.

I am working on getting some more pictures of the interior. They don't allow tripods so it has been tough to get good shots in low light.

Another great place to go on a cold day. The fern room is not a good place to take a camera because it is so damp inside. Not a cold damp but a warm damp, which is nice because we have enough cold here in Minnesota. The McNeely Conservatory at Como park is free. They ask for a $2.00 donation. It is a great place to go anytime but during the cold winter months people tend to linger.

The plant is called "little wart" funny name for such a beautiful flower.

Painted daisies.