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How classy would we be if we just left it at this?

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I reached Willow Lake just in time to see three trumpeter swans drifting down the far shore, abnormally bright against the water's deep, pure blue. I never look at water or the sky these days without thinking of how I'd render it in watercolor, and this time the solution was simple: cerulean blue, straight from the tube.

More: Letter from Willow River: Investigating the phenomenon of October Light

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The Minnesota State Fair's political booths were in full swing Wednesday, with the November election just over two months away and the governor's race, a U.S. Senate seat, all eight congressional seats and the entire state House all up for grabs.

It makes the State Fair a must-do event for campaigners looking for face time. 

Read Joe Kimball's Qs&As of political-booth workers here -> http://www.minnpost.com/political-agenda/2014/08/politicking-state-fair-how-campaign-workers-lure-potential-voters-amid-corn

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“I like to compare it to your grandparents house. People are sad when their grandparents finally sell the house and move into a condo or assisted living or something. But you still have the memories. It’s time to take the best of the Saints, and improve on the rest.”

--Saint Paul Saints Club vice president Annie Huidekoper

Read more here -> http://www.minnpost.com/sports/2014/08/saints-fans-say-goodbye-midway-stadium

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The T-shirts at the State Fair are always an interesting referendum on the public’s tastes, interests and general attitudes about life in Minnesota. This year, with no hotly contested elections or ballot initiatives, and the relative demise of the Tea Party, the T-shirt landscape seems much less politically charged than it has in years past.

Read more (and print out more cards) here -> http://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2014/08/minnesota-state-fair-t-shirt-bingo

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Jim Walsh went exploring the many fashions of the Minnesota State Fair

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Dog days of summer, and the living is … drunk and dicey on the streets of downtown Minneapolis. With summer on the ropes, the clubs aflame with warm-weather-loving party people, and the Twins, Lynx and Vikings all playing home games, downtown Minneapolis this Saturday night past was rich in nightlife action, characters, and tension. 

Read Jim Walsh's interviews with the many fascinating people he met on Saturday night.

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"The Clock" is a 24-hour-long montage of scenes from thousands and thousands of movies and television shows, assembled by [Christian] Marclay over several years. Each one contains, if not a clock, than some spoken mention of or reference to the current time. 

Andy Sturdevant describes "one of the most extraordinary artistic experiences of my life."

Images are video stills from Christian Marclay's "The Clock," 2010. Courtesy the artist and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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Territorial Alley: a vestige of the spine that linked the Twin Cities

Commuting from Pig Eye Parrant’s tavern in St. Paul to Ard Godfrey’s house in Minneapolis in the 1850s down Territorial Road would have essentially followed the same path as the Green Line.

Read more at http://www.minnpost.com/stroll/2014/08/territorial-alley-vestige-spine-linked-twin-cities

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President Obama ate lunch at Matt's Bar in Minneapolis today... nbd. No official word on whether he burned the roof of his mouth on molten Jucy Lucy cheese. Photo by REUTERS/Larry Downing. Read more in this afternoon's Glean.

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Strolling the Green Line: From Lexington to Lowertown

Andy Sturdevant continues his interactive tour of some of the top sites along the newly opened Green Line, going from the Lexington Parkway station to the end of the line in St. Paul. Pork belly! Psychics! Scientology! And more.

With photos by Carrie Thompson.

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While rain poured down on Saturday night, a surprising number of you hardy souls still made it out to Northern Spark. MinnPost was in the lobby of the Northrop Auditorium (the weather dashed our outdoor plans) projecting Lacu, a visualization of Minnesota's 13,817 lakes on the wall two at a time, all night long.

You can learn more about Lacu and run it yourself at MinnPost.

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Behind the scenes of the Minnesota Capitol restoration

Photos by Tom Olmscheid 

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A first-timer’s guide to Northern Spark, that big, crazy all-night arts festival: Q&A with Steve Dietz, Northern Spark’s founder and artistic director, the guy who looked around the Twin Cities and decided Minnesotans could and would stay up all night, if we had someplace to go.

(Check out MinnPost's Lacu at Northern Spark: From the collective mind of MinnPost’s Data Team, Lacu will be an all-night visualization of the 10k+ lakes in Minnesota.)

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From the 1890's to Saturday, June 14, 2014, MinnPost journalists Joe Kimball and Tom Nehil have compiled a timeline of the Green Line

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We’re proud to announce that Andrew Putz will be MinnPost’s executive editor, starting June 30.

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Tammy Faye Bakker’s year in Minneapolis (1960/1961) was quite eventful; Minneapolis is where she and Jim met, married, and began their ministry. (Minneapolis is currently home to Jim and Tammy Faye's son, Jay Bakker, whose Revolution Minnesota congregation meets each Sunday afternoon at Bryant-Lake Bowl.)