Play Ball!

Through a stroke of very good luck I got the chance to go to the season ticket holder's open house showing off Target Field today. Have to say - they sure are classing up the joint compared to the Dome. Granted that wouldn't have taken too much, but still... there are parts of that park that I would be embarrassed to be in while wearing jeans and Twins tee-shirt. Then again, I'll more than likely never see those parts of the park again, so that works out.

I will admit the site lines in the park look pretty damn good, and sitting in the sunshine on a 35 degree day was actually very pleasant. It was also exceptionally cool to sit in the sun in the new ball park, drink a beer, and watch the last couple innings of the tiebreaker on the jumbotron. I don't know how many games I'll actually get to see this year (what with all the bandwagoneers and all) but I think I'm going to like the ones I do get to see.

I will say though - when it comes to the shade: it's a damn good thing they have those heat lamps in the concourses.

more downtown

This is another photo (taken with my phone) out the old office window. I was just really loving the way the morning light was reflecting off everything. it made the city look very pretty.

Light

You'll probably notice in this series of "update" posts that there are a few themes. There is an explanation, usually each picture I post is one of about five or six pictures of roughly the same thing and I then pick the one I like the best. In a few cases you'll see here what has actually happened is that I've taken several pictures of the same thing that I actually like individually, so there will be many pictures of shells and bunnies today. This begins another, less obvious, theme. There will be several pictures today that were actually taken on my phone. This one was taken out the window of the office at my old job. It was the first morning we'd seen sun for - oh - three weeks or so and it was really cool reflected off of the other buildings down town.