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Greg Seitz
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Words and maps, woods and waters, people and places.

Contains multitudes, contradicts self.

📍 May Township, Minnesota
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Do you see the thunderbird?
Northern lights
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Well okay then.
The aurora borealis, a sight that defies words
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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A fire for the men of the Edmund Fitzgerald, swallowed by the cold waters of Lake Superior.
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Stayed at a cabin on the Bayfield Peninsula last year and they casually had this life jacket on display (it had been swapped out at some point before the final voyage). #EdmundFitzgerald
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Dancing in Danbury.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Here's one of several maps I made last year tracing the journey of Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Luth, one of the first white people to visit what's now Minnesota, in 1679-1680. www.stcroix360.com/2024/12/hist... #30DayMapChallenge
November 7, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I missed a couple days of the #30DayMapChallenge but it was seriously because I was working on a big map project and reading academic articles about deep mapping. Anyway here's one of my favorite places.
A topographic map of bluffs, a valley, and a river making a sharp bend, with lighter yellow at lower elevations and brown at higher elevations
November 6, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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Keeping it simple with my second map of #30DayMapChallenge. My favorite linear landscape features: rivers.
An unlabelled map with one large river and numerous others joining it
November 3, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Sneaking in under the wire with my first map of #30DayMapChallenge. Ugly, mostly thinking about themes for the month.
A map of a watershed with a black border and pale blue lakes and rivers and black dots marking historic sites
November 2, 2025 at 4:51 AM
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Fog filter this morning.
Purple fog and trees
October 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A one paragraph bio that is pretty accurate to what I know. I have quite a bit of Morgan May stuff I'm happy to share. What's your interest?
October 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Today, thanks to funding approved by President Joe Biden, the Minnesota legislature, and Midco, we joined the 21st century.
October 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Stillwater #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Getting ready to embark on a river voyage of film and music with my friends at the Square Lake Festival, the Cactus Blossoms, and the kickoff of a St. Croix River film contest.
A large paddlewheeler boat tied up at a dock A placemat on a table in a large room on a boat A river with the a partially green bluff with some fall colors visible and a blue sky with a few white clouds
October 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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New cell tower in Marine on St Croix visible from a long stretch of river. It's needed for the town and the banks are already lined by houses on that side, so I can't get super worked up. But it's another blemish. And certainly not great for the many birds that migrate up and down the river.
A river with gray skies and a cell tower protruding from bluffline
October 16, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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"Just like children sleepin'
We could dream this night away"
A rising harvest moon reflected in a river, framed by mostly silhouetted white pine limbs
October 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Re: The river crossing's criminal past.
“There was moon coming across from Somerset,” said Gilbert Walker, who operated the Marine ferry during the later years of Prohibition. “The ferry was a twenty-four hour deal,” he said and was based on the Minnesota side of the river. The road to the ferry from Wisconsin formed the border between St. Croix County and Polk County and was known locally as “County Line Road”. Many of the bootleggers hid the liquor under a load of wood in their pickup trucks. They crossed from Wisconsin. It was usually at night and Gilbert had his home at the landing. The bootleggers used a telephone system which had a crank that would ring a bell. This woke Gilbert and he slipped into coveralls and leather slippers and crossed over. The bootleggers always left a jug for Gilbert on the Wisconsin side. After they were across the river and safely on their way to the cities, Gilbert crossed back over and picked it up. At the land “there was always someone who wanted a drink now and then,” he said. “The Feds watched the boat like a hawk,” said Gilbert. Federal agents always betrayed themselves as “someone who was hanging around with an unfamiliar car.” The agents monitored the crossing from the old quarry above and behind the landing on the Minnesota side where Gilbert stored his canoes. From a cabin on the landing, Gilbert signaled with a light to the bootleggers whether it was safe to cross or not, “if the coast was clear or get the hell out,” said Gilbert. There was pride in Gilbert’s voice when he said, “They (the Feds) never did catch anyone there.”
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Goodness.
The gray trunks and dark green needles of white pines with a river in the background and a red needle covered path on one side
October 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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See any trout? Me neither.
Underwater photo with sand and vegetation
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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The Stillwater bridge sure catches the evening light in a lovely way.
A tall bridge over a river in golden light
September 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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Summer fading to fall on the upper St. Croix River.
A river with pale green, orange, and yellow vegetation on its banks
September 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Took my boy to see American lotus flowers on the only lake around here where they grow. A little past their prime but still beautiful.
A boy in the bow of a canoe paddles through large circular lotus leaves floating on the water Close up of a creamy yellow lotus flower. A canoe paddle rests on the large floating leaf of an American lotus. A close up of a lotus flower with more visible in the background
August 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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In the deep woods a half mile from my house, a bear was doing bear things. I can smell this photo and it's bad.
A black bear sitting in mud next to a small stagnant pond
August 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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A sweaty afternoon hike through humid air with grasshoppers parting before me like water in front of a ship.
A green hilly prairie with a wetland and a few trees
August 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Friend caught a smallmouth bass and it coughed up a baby green heron. #fishpuke @kgladefishsci.bsky.social
A fish being held by a gloved hand in the foreground, with fishing lures and a mangled juvenile green heron on the boat deck in the background
August 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM