I am still traveling. The reason I took this photo was to show the Enbridge pipeline which is being laid across the northern United States. It starts in Canada and goes through a bit of North Dakota and then all the way from North Dakota through Minnesota to Superior Wisconsin.  In this photo, although out of focus because I took it while someone else was driving, shows Cass Lake in the background. This photo was taken on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation. Some of the Native Americans on the Leech Lake Reservation think the pipeline compromises the environment. Read Leech Lake Band members challenge Enbridge Pipeline.

I am not sure of the rules under the City Daily Photo project when traveling. So today's post is of a photo during my travels. This photo was taken at Dunn Bros Coffee in Bemdiji, Minnesota. This shop on Old Highway 2 or Business Highway 2 (I don't know the correct terminology right now) . It is main highway in town and is across the street from Lake Bemidji. It is usually worth getting of the highway bypass. They provide a venue for local artists serve healthy sandwiches and soups and provide two computers with Internet access.

Humans have have covered the majority of Brewery Creek with pavement. Here it makes a brief appearance in an alley  below the Whole Foods Co-op parking lot between Fourth and Third Streets before it is covered again to finally emerge its mouth at Lake Superior. While this photo is not the prettiest, it is one of the rare times people can actually see and hear the creek. Most of the time shoppers at the Co-op are unaware of this creek because of all the lush trees, shrubs and other vegetation. Noises from traffic also drown out it gurgling. Soon it will freeze and will be silent.

Here is an excerpt titled The Hillside's hidden streams: Brewery Creek: I had this place pretty much to myself for a long time, flowing free all the way from the heights to Lake Superior. Then around 150 years ago people started cutting down trees, making streets, and putting up buildings all over the hillside.

For a while these folks found me useful. Back in about 1859 Duluth’s first brewery was built on my western bank between Seventh and Eighth Avenue East, just above what is now the “freeway.” The brewery used my water for making beer, so folks started calling me Brewery Creek.

To read more about this story written by Nancy Nelson which appears in The Hillsider Blog visit The Hillside's hidden streams: Brewery Creek

See more photo of this creek from Duluthstreams.org.

Chester Terrace is a large townhome-office building located from 1210 to 1232 E. First St. and is listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. It was built in 1890 and features towers, turrets and gabels. This is the door to Evergreen Real Estate.

Here is a piece of trivia: our current mayor, Don Ness used to live at the Chester Terrace. According to the Duluth Superior Magazine's website story, The Don Ness Story: In the spring of 2003, Don convinced Laura to move to Duluth, and soon she was rearranging his bachelor pad at Chester Terrace. They were married a year later.

See Duluth By Sheldon T. Aubut, Maryanne C. Norton here to learn more about Chester Terrace and other unique Duluth Buildings.

 

This time of year it becomes challenging to document Duluth, as the days get shorter and shorter. The day can easily slip by before a photographer has time to get outside and take a few shots.  This is a view of London Road from the Super One parking lot.

There are several sites on the web, which give the sunrise and sunset for an area. Gaisma.com is one website that gives this information. Gaisma is the Latin word for light. During the next month the days will continue to get shorter. In fact tomorrow will be two minutes shorter, a week from today will be 12 minutes shorter and month will be 29 minutes shorter. Six month from today Duluth will have almost 6 1/2 hours of more sunlight.

Minneapolis had 9 more minutes before sunset than Duluth today. In one month the city will have 11 more minutes of sunlight than Duluth, but this this summer - six months form now Duluth will have 19 more minutes of daylight than Minneapolis.

Duluth

Latitude: +46.78333 (46°46'59.988"N)
Longitude: -92.10639 (92°06'23.004"W

Minneapolis

Latitude: +44.98 (44°58'48"N)
Longitude: -93.26361 (93°15'48.996"W)

This table is from the Gaisma site

Duluth, Minnesota, United States - Sunrise, sunset, dawn and dusk times, table

Date Sunrise Sunset Length Change Dawn Dusk Length Change Today 7:23am 4:27pm 9:04   6:49am 5:01pm 10:12   +1 day 7:24am 4:26pm 9:02 00:02 shorter 6:50am 5:00pm 10:10 00:02 shorter +1 week 7:32am 4:22pm 8:50 00:14 shorter 6:57am 4:57pm 10:00 00:12 shorter +2 weeks 7:40am 4:20pm 8:40 00:24 shorter 7:05am 4:55pm 9:50 00:22 shorter +1 month 7:52am 4:24pm 8:32 00:32 shorter 7:16am 4:59pm 9:43 00:29 shorter +2 months 7:44am 4:57pm 9:13 00:09 longer 7:10am 5:30pm 10:20 00:08 longer +3 months 7:02am 5:42pm 10:40 01:36 longer 6:32am 6:13pm 11:41 01:29 longer +6 months 5:24am 8:47pm 15:23 06:19 longer 4:47am 9:24pm 16:37 06:25 longer Notes: Daylight saving time, * = Next day. Change preferences.

Tonight was extremely foggy. Driving was precarious. The yellow ball of light is a street lamp. Cars parked in the background can barely be seen.

46°F | °C Current: Fog Wind: N at 0 mph Humidity: 93% Sun 50°F | 44°F Mon 49°F | 45°F Tue 47°F | 39°F Wed 42°F | 35°F

This morning it was very foggy. This is a view of the Coppertop Church (First United Methodist Church) from Peace Church (Peace United Church of Christ). This two churches are at the top of hills  and have views of each other. In between the two churches is a soccer field, playground, and the neighborhoods of Upper East Hillside and part of Central Hillside. Several of Duluth Daily Photo's posts were actually taken from the Coppertop site. In the background is the antenna farm

 

Duluth was unseasonably warm on Friday night, which resulted in 20,000 people lining the streets of downtown and Canal Park to see the Christmas City of the North Parade. Many high school bands, clubs and businesses from around northeast Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin joined in the pararde. Here the Hermantown High School marching band marches by the crowd at the corner of Lake Avenue and Superior Street. The people across the street in this photo are sitting and standing on the Minnesota Power Plaza. This corner is a popular spot for all kinds of events: rallies, welcome home parades, protester, Bike to Work Day; you name it, many public events gather happen here. At the bottom of the photo the bricks, which pave the majority of the Superior Street downtown, are evident.

A large tree is displayed at this plaza every year. This year the Holiday tree came from the home of Duluthian Valerie Tillman. It is a 50 foot Colorado Spruce and was lit for the first time just prior to the parade.

Every year the rose bushes at the Duluth Rose Garden in Leif Erikson Park are protected with bags of leaves. Shrubs are wrapped with burlap.

This photo was taken at 11 a.m. and shows a late morning frost. It might not be too many more days before Duluth parking lots have more than just frost. The weather below shows the low at 36, but clearly it was colder than 36 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature in Duluth depends on location. Areas in the Hillside are colder in the summer time and warmer in the winter. This was taken above or uphill from the Hillside neighborhood and is in the shadows.

43°F | °C Current: Clear Wind: NE at 17 mph Humidity: 87% Wed 45°F | 36°F Thu 43°F | 40°F Fri 48°F | 34°F Sat 46°F | 44°F