Minnehaha Avenue spills out of the noisy riot that is Lake Street into a quiet boulevard where tall trees now bare of leaves promise a summer canopy of shade. Dusk stirs swarms of black crows whose silhouettes against the orange ball of a setting Minnesota sun are Escher patterns in motion. Brick buildings on Minnehaha glow with the warm colors of day's end as nearby houses snuggle against grain elevators, seeking shelter from the cutting winter wind.
God on a bumper sticker. Two cars pull up next to each other at the intersection of Lake and Minnehaha. One car sports a bumper sticker that beseeches "God Bless our Nation," while its neighbor’s declares "God Bless America." At the other end of Minnehaha, where the avenue flows into the beauty and grace of Minnehaha Park, another driver evokes a different power: a carefully airbrushed Superman shield on his pickup’s tailgate.
Posted by Streetwalker at March 13, 2004 06:07 AM