365 Days of Education

June 19 – Mill City Museum

That’s the Guthrie Theater jutting out behind the Mill City Museum. That’s right, Minnesota has a museum dedicated to flour mills.

April 21 – Sit. Stay. Heal.

Bench outside the Hilton next door.

March 13 – St. Paddy’s Day Parade

March 6 – Dog Valet

We were at the indoor farmer’s market and dogs are not allowed.  This is just one of the many reasons downtown Fort Collins is amazing.

Here’s another: Bike Valet.

February 13 – ‘Shrooms

At the Fort Collins Indoor Winter Market.

February 10 – Disco Ball

Groovy ceiling at this hotel.

January 8 – End of the season

What didn’t come out so well in the picture were the streams of tinsel flying off the tree as the car drove along.

December 23 – Oak Grill

Eating at the Oak Grill in Dayton’s (now Macy’s, but in an act of defiance, most Minnesotans still call it Dayton’s) is a family tradition dating back to when my mother was a child.

Now, we head down each year to see the display in the 8th floor auditorium and lunch at the Oak Grill. The popovers are divine and the people watching is good, too. Children dressed up to visit Santa. Parents who waited too long to get their name on the seating list placating sugar stressed children for over an hour. Elderly grandparents and great-grandparents in their finery treating grandchildren. (They’re seated, of course. They KNOW to get their names on the list FIRST.)

December 17 – Holiday Decorations

If you look closely through the window to the left, you’ll see Halloween pumpkins hanging from a coat rack.

These have run all day& night, for at least the last couple of weeks.

December 16 – Betty Crocker

My mom’s cookbook from 1968. The gingerbread men are kind of creepy looking now!