Teresa 's Blog

The Republican National Convention starts tomorrow.  There isn't a lot of real estate being sold this weekend and I have listings that are inside the safety zone and will be unavailable to show during the convention.  I live about 1/2 a mile from the main event. I have been giving directions to l...

With almost every listing I try an experiment. I use my normal online marketing and I add something new. If it works, or helps sell the listing I keep using it. I found this site a few weeks ago for making guides and decided to try it. It is called Guide Spot. Very easy to use, I didn't need to ...

Sometimes I just have too much fun. Lofts are fun to photograph.  They have huge windows and a lot of light.  I like to take my property shots using natural light.  I warm up the photo or cool it down by adjusting the temperature when I process it. It is possible to take a small loft and get ten ...

304 Exchange Street This renovated mansion has three units in it. Unit 3# is on the top floor. The deck on the back is kind of like having a tree house. This unit is very cute and it has a new furnace and air conditioning unit. It has a one car garage behind it and it is just half a block from I...

Here in St. Paul we have many large and small city parks. I am finding wildflowers in them and started taking pictures of them. I ended up with so many pictures that I started a Minnesota wildflower blog.  When I find pictures of flowers online often they are not labeled, or if they are they are ...

I like to shoot ducks because they don't shoot back.  These were taken at our local city zoo, the Como park zoo, on a cloudy morning.  The ducks in the pond are very tame.  The water lillies are blooming too. I am not exactly sure how to make this a 50 word post.  I always struggle with that.  W...

Most cities have zoo's.  I don't go very often but last week my neice and nephew were visiting so I took them to como park zoo just for the heck of it. I can't remember what it is they were fighting about but it seemed like they had a good time, but they did get on aunties last nerves when they s...

I know I complain during the winter about being cold and having to show houes when it is "I can't stand it" below zero, but there are many reasons why I love living in St. Paul, and spring is one of those reasons.In the spring the grass turns green again and people come out and walk or ride along...

Quiet down along the river.  Too early in the season for those wonderful moon light cruises.The Ordway is packed. There is a Minnesota Wild game going on at the Xcel center and a large roof top tail gate party on the parking ramp. The local bars in and around downtown are packed. Fun to walk arou...

St. Paul Cathedral, St. Paul, Minnesota.  I never get tired of photographing this building, both inside and out.  Built in 1905, Emmanuel Louis Masqueray, a French architect trained at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, was selected to design what we know today as the fourth Cathedral of Saint P...