The Powderhorn Park Monarch Butterfly

 Saturday, February 28, 2026

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Powderhorn Art Fair Snapshots

Powderhorn Art Fair - Athena

From Dale's blog dated August 3, 2013:

"Joe and I headed to the Powderhorn Art Fair at Powderhorn Park, which is close to our house. Minneapolis, being artsy as all get out, has three major art fairs going on this weekend - Uptown, Loring and Powderhorn. Uptown is ridiculous with 100,000 plus people and kind of commercial IMHO, Loring is more local but really packed and Powderhorn is the most local and has a good number of people but not just teeming. I really like this one. We took Athena to get her some culture. All she cared about was food and sniffing butts. Some people's dogs..."

I will add that Athena was something of the belle of the ball.  Not only were dogs all a-twitter about her but a good number of people made nice comments about her as well. The red bandana that Dale tied on her, I'm sure, didn't hurt.

Powderhorn Park Part 2

I took the above picture on my walk to Powderhorn Park today. The City of Minneapolis used to do their 4th of July fireworks, which were shot off from the island shown in the picture above, from Powderhorn Park. Mom, Dad, Sam, Pete, and I used to go see fireworks here in the 1970's.

Powderhorn Park Part 1

Yesterday Dale and I took the 20 minute walk to Powderhorn Park for the first time in years. We used to take this walk many times when we first moved into our house in the late 1990's. Yesterday's walk was so lovely I decided to take the same stroll today and I took the pictures shown above. I've always been jealous of the people who live in the house pictured on the bottom. Their yard opens right up into the park. It's like have a lake home right in the middle of the city!