Digital Scanner for Photos

Too windy to bike or smack tennis balls. There were tornado warnings in various parts of the state, too. I took another day off.

With all this talk about scanners, I decided to try the scanner, too. Mine is a HP PSC 1610 attached to Herb's Mac. This scanner is also a copier and a printer. It worked pretty well and was user friendly enough to get the job done. The image is smaller than what comes from my digital camera, but the software has done some automatic cropping because the photo was 4x6 on a 8 and 1/2 by 11 scanner bed. The photo is the giant "Spoonbridge and Cherry" at the Walker Art Center's Sculpture Garden taken about 4 years ago, a favorite subject of mine on Father's Day. It also seems to have assumed the position of Minneapolis city symbol.


It was a decent enough day to search for Minnesota Rocks sculptures. This one is in Mounds Park which overlooks the Mississippi Valley on the east side of St Paul. The park contains burial mounds of the Indian tribes that lived in this area for centuries and also this new sculpture (it is still surrounded by yellow tape). It is called "Sacred Bowl" by Duane Goodwin of Bemidji, Minnesota. The other Minnesota Rock sculpture which was supposed to be in the area escaped my search and may not actually be installed yet.



Ana Ivanovic of Serbia beat Sharapova 6-2, 6-1 and is in the finals against Justine Henin at Roland Garros on Saturday.

Crab sushi for lunch today. Yum.