The Eagan Rotary Club presented 24 community grants totaling $23,500. These grant recipents gathered for a photo following Wednesday's weekly Rotary lunch meeting in the Eagan Community Center. They represent the local foodshelf, Inver Hills Community College Foundation, YMCA, Boy Scouts, 4-H Club, Caponi Art Park, Caring Bridge, DARTS, Angel Foundation and many others. Congratulations!
We drove out to the Stillwater Tree Farm to cut down our own Christmas tree. Many people bring home a Christmas tree right after Thanksgiving. It was a great way to celebrate the first Sunday in Advent.
Our friends, Steven and Allison, invited us over for a glass of wine before dinner out with some other friends. Cheers!
Easter Lutheran Church members gathered on Wednesday evening for a Thanksgiving worship service. Afterwards, everyone made a quick dash for the tables filled with various types of pies. I was too slow and ended up in the back of the line!
These three wild turkeys were calmly feeding in a front yard in late October. With Thanksgiving soon here, they're likely now hiding deep in the woods! 
The car next to me at the stoplight decorated their car with a Thanksgiving turkey!
Potter and pottery teacher, Siiri Silpala Doan, visited with pottery shoppers and other pottery teachers on Saturday. The Eagan Art House offers pottery classes for kids and adults.
All over Eagan and the Twin Cities, a layer of ICE has covered the roads, highways and sidewalks over night! There have been many car accidents and even a 40 car pile-up last night on Highway 94! Glad to see the City of Eagan truck spreading de-icing salt!
On a pleasant Saturday afternoon over two weeks ago, I walked down to a nearby lake for a few photos, exercise and fresh air.
Just of Covington Lane, this Maple tree was a work of beauty in mid-October! Now you've been seeing snow in my photos...
We've got some badddddd news in Eagan: Defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, is leaving town in 2013. That means the loss of 1,000 jobs, including 700 engineers in a company founded back in 1946. Zut alors!
These four women walk their dogs together every morning. Their 5th member was gone on vacation. When I asked them if their group had a name, they looked at each other and said "no." Fun women and cute dogs!
Stopped at the traffic light on Cliff Road at Johnny Cake Road, I pulled out my camera to capture a view on my 3 mile winter drive to my office.
This 7 foot tall, husky snowman stands in front of the Valvoline oil change store on Cliff Road. En route to my office this morning, I snapped the bottom photo of Frosty. After lunch at home, I noticed Frosty's color had changed to blue! He will likely slowly melt all week based on our current weather reports....
At 7 AM on Thursday morning, the sky was painted pink and hues of blue. After breakfast, the pink was gone and so was a magnificent sunrise! 
Down along the neighborhood lake's edge, this muskrat was just hanging out. I took one step closer and he disappeared into the water! 
Vietnam War and Iraq War veteran and Lieutenent Colonel Joe Repya, was kind enough to pose with his 1942 WWII Army Jeep at Safety Officer Tribute & Memorial at the Eagan Community Center in Mid-October.
At yesterday's Eagan Rotary Club lunch meeting, two World War II veterans were recognized for their service. They were surrounded by fellow veterans from the Rosemount VFW Chapter 9433 including the two WWII award recipients from last year's annual recognition.
With these wheels, our friends Gordon & Cory really got noticed this summer zooming around Eagan! This 1932 Ford Hiboy Roadster, originally from Florida, was repainted and rebuilt in Milwaukee by "Crash Customs" complete with a Chevy 383 V8 motor. Click here to see one of their other fancy cars!
Many years ago as a poor college student studying in Germany, I almost made it to Monaco. Nice was nice but I didn't have enough money to get to Monaco so my sister and I trained back directly to Germany. Recently at the nearby Mall of America, I spotted this store and thought of Jilly, the Monte Carlo Daily Photo blogger. That's again as close as I came to Monaco ...
This electrical plant stands just off Pilot Knob, north of Cliff Road and next to a fire station. Look but don't touch! 
If you're looking for a reportedly yummy sandwich, try swinging by "Jimmy John's" for a bite to eat! Nope, I haven't had lunch there yet.
Many planes fly over Eagan to land at the Minneapolis/St. Paul international airport. This Delta plane roared right over our office building. 
Candyce Medici's West Highland terrier posed in her garden.
Three Eagan politicians celebrated with their constituents on Tuesday evening at Al Baker's Restaurant in Eagan as the votes were being counted. Today, we congratulate all three for winning their new political posts:
On Halloween night, our big neighbors and little neighbors gathered for a pre-party before trick-or-treating fun!
