Aviation weather for Mankato Regional airport (USA) is “KMKT 181456Z AUTO 25021G30KT 5SM -RA SCT018 OVC025 02/M01 A2927 RMK AO2 PK WND 26031/1421 RAB05 SLP919 P0000 60000 T00171011 52009 FZRANO” : See what it means on https://www.bigorre.org/aero/meteo/kmkt/en #mankatoregionalairport #airport #mankato #usa #kmkt #metar #aviation #aviationweather #avgeek vl

This is cool!

A #HamRadio #balloon is floating around #Mankato #Minnesota & I'm receiving its telemetry way up in the upper-right corner of the map shown here (look for #LinoLakes).

Joe Tougas & Associates – League Night

https://wgom.org/2025/11/16/joe-tougas-associates-league-night/

Workers Over Billionaires Rally - 09/01/2025 #JonSmithers
#Indivisible #StPeter #Mankato #Minnesota

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3OumY7-t3M

The “mural” of the story: Silo art enhances community

While traveling this year, we have been fortunate to see several outstanding examples of grain elevator/silo art being employed in cities and towns across the heartland. Given the naturally gray/beige color of these enormous structures, a splash of bright, bold colors or an inspiring image can enhance not just the towering structure itself, but also help brighten the entire surrounding neighborhood.

While approaching either downtown Salina, Kansas or Mankato, Minnesota, one cannot help but be impressed by the sky-high artistry depicted on the local grain elevator silos. The towering images of unity, community, diversity, and friendship in these two mid-sized prairie cities are breathtaking. Meanwhile, when entering Toledo along Interstate 75, the Glass City River Wall fronting the Maumee River immediately captures your attention.

Few community placemaking efforts can create such an immediate, meaningful, and positive response from locals and visitors alike. Personally, this retired planner prefers those silo murals that have a local historical and/or human connection versus just painting them to add color or a standardized patriotic theme. Such a direct connection is important to build both initial and continuous support from the community.

The murals also help promote civic pride and create a catalyst towards the rebirth of aging sectors of the city/town. Just imagine an outdoor performance venue with these 100+ foot tall icons overlooking the busy festivities below. Similar projects have been done successfully at former steel mills in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (SteelStacks) and Birmingham, Alabama (Sloss Furnaces) and at a former grain elevator in Buffalo, New York (RiverWorks).

Or perhaps a food truck rodeo could be established at the base of the silos serving up delicious meals throughout the week. Or they could become the centerpiece of a civic plaza with fountains, courtyards, light shows, and landscaping adoring the site. Honestly, the sky’s truly the limit for ideas employing these immensely impressive structures.

Kudos to each city/town here in the United States and elsewhere who have found the wherewithal to take visual art to exciting new heights. Below are images of the six silo murals we observed. Peace!

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Burlington, Colorado

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Edwardsburg, Michigan

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Mankato, Minnesota

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Salina, Kansas (two silo murals)

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Toledo, Ohio

#AllAboard #art #BrettWhitacre #cities #community #Dionysus #Edwardsburg #fun #GabeGault #GlassCityRiverWall #grainElevators #GuidoVanHelton #heritage #history #Mankato #MonumentsMuralProject #MuralTheMill #murals #music #PichiAvo #placemaking #planning #RiverWorks #Salina #siloArt #sios #SlossFurnaces #SteelStacks #towns #travel #unity

https://www.mobilize.us/stpetermankato/event/827760/
Join our Indivisible St Peter/Greater Mankato coalition to support workers over billionaires. Music and sign making starts at 2 pm, short program starts at 3 pm, demonstration 3:30-4:30 along Hwy 169 in St Peter.
#Indivisible #StPeter #Mankato #Minnesota

I Cut People – I Quit
#Experimental #audiocollage #computermusic #cutup #cutups #experimental #icutpeople #samplecore #Mankato
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives) #ccmusic
https://icutpeople.bandcamp.com/album/i-quit

Caught sight of this beautiful sunset at the end of my walk yesterday.

#SilentSunday #Nature #Photography #Sunset #MNastodon #Mankato

Watercolor I recently completed inspired by a FB photograph. Unfortunately I don’t know who the photographer was. Beautiful sunset over the Dakota mill in Mankato, MN #watercolor #Minnesotawatercolorartist #femaleartists #minnesotaartists #mankato #Art #Makeart

MSU Internet Access Kit CD-ROM

https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/msu-internet-access-kit-cd-rom

This is a .toast image of a CD-R my family got from Minnesota State University, Mankato when we bought a Macintosh Performa through them, I guess in order to take advantage of the education discount

#macgarden #softwarecompilations #1994 #mankato #minnesotastateuniversity

Not sure if I'll brave the subzero temperatures for a walk today, so here's a photo of one of my favorite trails, and the one I often take on my commute to campus. #SilentSunday #Silent #Minnesota #Mankato

I Cut People – Farewell, Reality or How to Philosophize with Nothing Left
#Experimental #audiocollage #computermusic #cutup #cutups #cutup #cutups #experimental #samplecore #soundscollage #words #Mankato
CC BY-NC-ND (#CreativeCommons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives)
https://icutpeople.bandcamp.com/album/farewell-reality-or-how-to-philosophize-with-nothing-left

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.6 strikes 5 mi SE of #Mankato (#Kansas) 1hr 27min ago. More info: https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1742961

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#Walz has a long history of supporting #LGBTQIA+ rights. While teaching at #Mankato West High School in the 90s, he helped found its first #GayStraightAlliance group.

"You have an older, #White, #straight, #married, male #football coach who's deeply concerned that these students are treated fairly & that there is no #bullying," Walz said in a 2018 campaign ad.

#Ally #HarrisWalz2024

he’s also a fmr US #Army noncommissioned officer who can pull off a camo hat at a news conference. & he’s the #teacher given the “Most #Inspiring” superlative in the #Mankato yearbook, who can effectively deliver an attack on #Republican opponents.

“When he said #Republicans were ‘#weird’ it struck me like, this works from Walz,” says Jake Jagdfeld, who played linebacker under Walz in the ’90s. “In politics he’s good at calling out BS w/o getting nasty or too down in the dirt.

#HarrisWalz2024

In the mid-’90s, it was #Walz who offered to be the first faculty adviser to the newly formed #gay-straight alliance.

“The fact that he took on that role while also being the #FootballCoach was so important,” says Jacob Reitan, who was the first openly gay student at #Mankato West. “He set an example not just for #LGTBQ students but for football players in the locker room at a time where gay people were not well understood. He made the school a #safe place for everybody.”

#HarrisWalz2024

#Walz arrived in #Minnesota in 1996, from his home state of #Nebraska, along w/his wife, Gwen, who got a job #teaching English at the same school. At #Mankato West, Mrs & Mr Walz were seen as powerhouse #teachers who balanced out each other’s energy-levels: she was more reserved, & he was a boisterous ball of energy.

…Walz quickly earned the reputation as a guy who could get the most out of people.

#VoteBlue #HarrisWalz2024 #Harris2024