This was my first outdoor nocturne. I felt very lucky when a train came by on my second night out, and stayed for several hours while I painted it.

I felt lucky again when the lights on the University of Minnesota Centennial Showboat were lit. I rushed to get the colors on my palette ready, but the party ended to soon. I had to finish up the showboat from a camera shot.

The closest large light globe was temperamental, it flickered on and off. It cooperated very kindly one night so that I could get it into the painting. Chestnut Plaza is in Upper Landing Park, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

It was a misty purple pink night when I started this painting. The fog rolled in and I could not see a thing. I thought I was done for the night, and started packing. When I turned around the fog was gone. I painted bundled up under an umbrella on a couple nights. It thought that 43 degrees was cold.

This public dock is a quiet place at five in the morning before the One on the First National Bank building lights up for the day. A young fisherman showed me a picture of a 45 pound catfish that he caught there. He told me the record is 75 pounds

This is the view from the Upper Landing public pier and it quiet and peaceful when the temperature reaches freezing. It was 28 degrees when I finished this last painging of the season with gloves on.