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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.

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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.

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Today was strange. The sun was shining in Duluth, but it was foggy over the lake. This ship looked eerie like a ghost ship. This is Eighth Avenue East. It is a two-way stree

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Standing at Sixth Street a person can look down Twelfth Avenue East all the way to Leif Erikson Park and Lake Superior.  From Sixth Street to Fourth Street is a little two-block section that is two-way traffic. Going up the hill from here won't get you anywhere unless you are on foot. There is a "secret" path at Sixth and one-half Street. Pedestrians can take this wooded trail up to Seventh Street, but vehicles have to go another block “west” to 11th Avenue or “east” to 13^th Avenue.

Duluth has many one-ways. They are remnants of an emergency system to get the traffic flowing out of Duluth prior to the arrival of Interstate 35. Many people think they are no longer needed. (See Charrette)The one-ways can be confusing to visitors and new residents.

From the Duluth-Superior Metropolitan Council: The one-way system became effective October 26, 1956 (pre-Interstate 35). Duluth Libray documentation from 1941 to 1968 ("DH" Duluth Herald) reviews the history of one-way streets. View the history of one-way streets in Duluth newspaper articles.

Today the November sun shone brightly and the sky was deep blue. This old building is in the city. It looks ancient. On the side of the left garage door is the remnant of an electrical conduit. So at one time it must have been wired for electricity, but that looks years ago too. No doubt electricity was NOT somebody's dream when this building was built. Most buildings or houses have a walkout basement. It is a two level garage, cars can drive out this level. The level above is uphill and has doors facing the opposite direction.

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Today was another wet, rainy day. I liked the light in the photo. The colors were strange today. The sky was overcast yet the grass was a fluorescent green. The lake is hard to see in this photo because it is mixed in with the sky but in the center of the photo the blue part is Lake Superior. This was taken from the Kirby Student Center at the University of Minnesota - Duluth (UMD). 

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Friday has been a rainy day and night. The white in the right center is a couple of lit trees on the Blackwoods property on London Road. I took this from the Perkin's parking lot across the street. I have some other photos in which you can clearly see all the features, but I like the wet, blurred effect.

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