The paint will keep us warm

Sandbagged on Superior Crack

Katie attempts to climb "Superior Crack" at Palisade Head on the Minnesota's north shore of Lake Superior.

On three!

More BWCAW rock jumping fun. The family that jumps together... swims together...

Last days of summer

Brayden and Kyle enjoy the last weekend of summer in Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW).

Quote of the day

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain

Welcome baby Odin Anderson Bowen

My brother Philip and his wife Paige welcomed their first son Odin Anderson Bowen into the world this past Saturday, and he came home from the hospital this afternoon.
  

Treats at the zoo

I took Anna and Benjamin to the Toledo Zoo this weekend, and of course the adventure was as much about the ice cream and cotton candy (respectively) as it was about seeing the animals...