#MN zoo

[firewolf-pyro]

Went to the MN zoo~

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[maepolzine]

A Night at the Library: MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular 2022

A little photo journal of the MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular (A Night at the Library)

A few years ago I went to my first ever MN Zoo Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular, then COVID happened so we didn’t end up going the two years following that. Well, this year it’s back or rather we went back to it. The theme for this year was: Night at the Libary. So, everything was themed around various types of books you might find. There are more than 5,000 glowing carved pumpkins at this event. So,…

[ashroomancer]

You know when zoos will have incredibly lifelike plastic or resiny animals and rocks to decorate the trails and exhibit rims with to make people feel more like they're more in the environment with the animals they're looking at? I want those. I love them so much. If I can buy them or make them I need need need to know.

[sleepycicada]

[clairity-org]

Cyclamen, Como Park Conservatory 2/9/24 by Sharon Mollerus

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ongelooflijk wat deze video voor mn heupen doet

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Just saw a very cute person at the Como Zoo in MN wearing the poppy skirt!! The fit was poppin, literally looked like it could have come from one of your drawings

WAIT THAT IS SO COOL

[godzilla-reads]

🐻 On Being a Bear: Face to Face with Our Wild Sibling by Rémy Marion (trans. David Warriner)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Following bears of all kinds across North America, Europe, and Asia, Marion reveals the many ways they’ve figured in our lives and imaginations, and offers a path forward for us to live alongside bears with respect.

Translated from French by the talented David Warriner, ON BEING A BEAR is a very readable, sometimes lyrical, and important book about our conservation efforts and our shared history with bears around the world. Like many people, I had a teddy bear growing up, I’d see the Russian Grizzly enclosure at the MN Zoo, but I had no real information on the lives and history of bears.

I love bears and this book gives the reader a very unique insight into their lives, their evolution, their science, their abilities. With chapter titles like “How to Become a Bear” (Chapter 2), this book will pull you in and make you love these animals as much as the author.

I really appreciated that as the author wrote about how nurturing and natural bears are, he would still remind you that these are wild animals and can cause harm if approached. It is best if we, as viewers, do not seek out bears close up, but let them live and be.

Highly recommend!

[hecckyeah]

I'm visiting Minnesota for the first time outside of the airport this year and I recall you posting a bit about that state. Any recs of cool things to do/ good places to eat in the Twin Cities?

OMG yess exciting!! I grew up right in that area :))

I'll add what I can think of off the top of my head, but maybe some of my other MN moots can chime in? @3friesshortofahappymeal

I'll start with the big ones, then scale it down a bit :)

The Mall of America, for sure. I know it's a typical tourist attraction but it really is quite spectacular and worth a short trip. Sometimes there are cool concerts and events going on in the Rotunda (they have a list here), and if you've ever been shopping and thought, hmm I could go for a rollercoaster right about now, then the MoA's got you covered :) Also, I haven't been but my brother says the Fly Over America exhibit is AMAZING

Minnesota Zoo!! I haven't been there since my childhood, but they used to have this treetop rail which I think they replaced with a walkway. Either way, it's fantastic, very informative, super adorable!

The Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul!! Seriously one of my FAVORITE places ever. There's an omni-theater, which is worth the trip in itself. The exhibits are top tier, tons of interactive stuff for adults, and it takes FOREVER to get through it, so you know it's worth the admission price :)

Stillwater is about a 30 minute drive from the Cities, but it's incredible if you want to do some light hiking and visit some cute shops!

I've never actually been to the Minneapolis Institute of Art, but it's a top destination if you have the time/interest for it!

Depends on what time of year you're visiting, but you have your pick of lakes to swim in (or paddleboard, rent a boat, lay on the sand and get burned by the sun, etc) Some favorites are Long Lake, Wayzata Beach, Silver Lake, and White Bear Lake Park!

There are some super nice walking paths around the Stone Arch Bridge

The Mill City Museum is worth a visit if you're a huge nerd like me :) It's a great little peek into Minnesota history and culture!

The Guthrie Theater for SURE, especially the yellow tinted room a couple floors up. Iconic MN spot!

Asia Mall in Eden Prairie! You can get some top tier boba there

If you have time to drive a little further north, I personally love the Albertville outdoor shopping mall. They're all outlet stores, and it's enormous and a really nice area.

Again, I've never been but The Armory always has some kind of events/small scale concerts going on. I think my brother saw The Band CAMINO there a couple years ago :)

Sadly I'm way less educated on restaurants in the area :( I know the Maple Grove area has tons of elite spots, and you really can't go wrong around the downtown area around the US Bank Stadium.

That said, just a couple places I do know of--

Fogo de Chao in Minneapolis

Henhouse Eatery in Minneapolis

Teppanyaki Grill in Fridley

Hoagie's Family Restaurant in Hopkins

Also, just a side note, if you have a day or two to spare, I'd HIGHLY recommend a trip up toward Duluth and the North Shore. In my opinion that's the most gorgeous place in all of MN.

Again, MN moots feel free to chime in!! I haven't lived in the Twin Cities area the last couple years and now I'm moving back soon, so I'm a little out of touch hahaha, especially after covid :)

I hope this helps!! Have an AWESOME time, and definitely let me know how the trip goes!!! <3 I love MN, it has so much to offer <33

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Como Park Zoo & Conservatory | St. Paul, MN | December 2019 (Processed and scanned February 2024)

Shot on Ilford HP5 Plus (120 film) with a Yashica A (test roll)

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"Gimp Cage Contest!!!" winner from www.gopostal.com 1998

This week's (and last week's) winners are:

Fred T. from Minneapolis, MN sent The Gimp a sweet little "poem", inspired while playing Postal:

THE POSTAL DUDE By I. M. Demented

I work for the Postal Service

I was there today

My supervisor pissed me off

So I blew him away

Then I went home and changed

Into my camouflage

Then I killed My Neighbors

In back of their garage

Roaming through the streets

Filling you with fear

I've gotta run a body count

Before the cops get near

I fire bomb the SafeWay

I shoot up the laundermat

I knife a passing cowboy

Just to wear his hat

A few grenades for the playground

A couple for the park

I need to get my starlight scope

It's starting to get dark

I waste a couple winos

A few homeless people too

It's time to stop and reload

Next stop-the city zoo

Flame a few zebras

Burn an elephant or two

Let's creamate the monkey house

Molitov cocktail time at the zoo

The cops are getting closer

I hear the siren's cry

I see my flaming handywork

Dancing against the sky

Next I go into the movies

I'll give them such a thrill

It'll be just what they paid for

Now showing- A VIEW TO A KILL

I dynamite the box office

I mine the balcony

Yell "fire" from the back row

Then cut 'em down when they flee

The cops have got me cornered

By now I know the drill

The Pipper has his hand out

It's time to pay the bill

I take the time to reflect

To think of what I've done

Outside the cops are ready

Lets get going and have some fun

My bullets rush before me

Showing me the way

I calmly walk out to the street

It's time to end this play

As I fire wildly into the night

Bullets hit me from far and near

Targets come and go from my sight

The end is finaly here

I lay here in a pool of my own blood

Pleased with the results of the day

They wonder why I'm smiling at them

It's the voices-they've finally gone away

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[clairity-org]

Orchid, Como Park Conservatory 2/9/24 by Sharon Mollerus

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Postcards from Snagglepuss

What a Summer of (Ursine) Love it must've been for the Hair Bear Bunch!

CAMBRIDGE, MN: Huckleberry Hound and yours truly decided to take lunch at a modest little cafe ahead of preparations for our Braham Pie Day Character Convocation in a few day's time, mainly to discuss preparations ... when, for some reason or another, along comes no less than the Hair Bear Bunch in their Volkswagen Kombi campervan for (obviously enow) lunch. And were they stunned (and I do mean STUNNED!) by our motorhome serving as our new mobile bivouac!

"And who do we have the pleasure of crossing paths with?" saith Huckleberry Hound as we were finalising our order.

"None other than the Hair Bear Bunch!", exclaimeth Hair Bear alongside his two ursine companions, Square Bear and Bubi Bear.

To which Square Bear added, "What a surprise it must be to come across you two!"

"Heavens to Yogi Bear!" I remarked. "And I presume you're getting ready for Braham Pie Day, after quite the summer of ursine love, mating even!"

Which saw the ursine trio sit at a booth across the way from us, and striking up conversation. "To put it honestly, Snag and Huck," Hair Bear remarked, "we bears just can't help but explore the sheer magic that is obvious in the release of tensions which sex can bring on!"

"Yeah," the young whippersnapper Bubi Bear remarked, "it can't help but just feel so releasing the clyde, so much is the magic to be found!"

Huckleberry asked Hair just how long these mating season road trips had been going on with the trio, to which he remarked, "Last several years. Admittedly, it's much better than back at the Wonderland Zoo, which we could see collapsing practically before our eyes for several years!"

Square Bear picked up the story: "Even with Botch and Peevly--"

"I take it they were the zookeepers," Huck remarked.

Square continued: "Correct; Botch and Peevly kept blaming us for all the collapse which the zoo had somehow been going through when, in fact, the zookeepers' ineptitude and deferred maintenance which made things rather awful."

Hair Bear: "It was their sheer and outright mental collapse, right in front of visitors, that was practically the last straw!"

"Heavens to Hagenbeck!" was my response.

Continued Hair Bear: "Such was certainly enough to reset our lives more than anything. We began resettling close to an isolated beach out by Malibu, where we have a secret surf and dive spot ... and boy, who could resist the surfing to be had there?"

"I've heard much about the surfing out Malibu way," Huckleberry remarked.

"And boy, couldn't you get more seriously stoked on those waves?" was how Square Bear added to the converse.

"Quite the stoke indeed! Quite the riding experience, such must be the serious clyde out of Malibu--" remarked Bubi until Square Bear's forepaw shut Bubi up in a commonplace stunt whenever Bubi's remarks appeared to go over the top, prompting Square to ask impatiently, "What exactly did Bubi say just now?!"

"At any rate, guys," Hair Bear chimed in, "sensing the limitations of the Invisible Motorbike which Square is bound to rely on in getting around, some close friends gave us a Volkswagen Campervan they lovingly had rebuilt for road trips ... and soon after, we began our summer road trip tradition of going into the north country during the bear mating season and just engage in the experience of ursine sexuality!"

I was tempted to ask whether their mating antics had much success in bear cubs ensuing from their seed, to which Square Bear remarked that "I have to admit that we're not exactly sure about the numbers; after all, it's the female as brings up the cubs almost exclusively until they reach three years of age or so."

"And from there on out," Hair Bear added, "they're on their own. It's pretty much possible that we fathered a few bears from our mating escapades, and where they may happen to be ... it's practically anybody's guess. After all, what could feel more fascinating in the summer than to camp beside some lake on a mild summery night and enjoy the evening releasing yourself with some feminine ursine company through the night--"

"--bound to be followed the clyde with some moonlight swimming and diving around; wouldn't it feel wonderful, oh the clyde, the moon reflected in the waters when you've got some girlfriends along!," added Bubi, ever the whippersnapper (as it were.)

As our lunch came along, Huckleberry couldn't help but remark in response just how exciting bear-type love must be.

"For us, Huckleberry and Snagglepuss," Hair Bear responded, "it's bound to come rather naturally ... and bound to feel so wonderful in the end!" To which Huck added a reminder that the Braham Pie Day Convocation was coming up, and that we were expecting them there.

"Agreed" was how Hair Bear responded.

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