This recording of the falls located on Shingle creek at Webber parkway was made last weekend on the way back from the Surly Darkness Day festival. My friend Kevin and I stopped during our bike ride back from the Surly brewery in Brooklyn Center where the event was held to drink a beer by the falls before crossing the Mississippi river at Camden on our way back to Northeast Minneapolis for dinner before riding to a campfire party in the Seward neighborhood.
At the festival we tasted many fine beers brewed by the renowned Surly Brewing Company and heard three great bands, including Guzzlemug, God Came From Space and Powermad. It was a long day, but well worth it.
Shingle Creek Falls
I captured this Minneapolis skyway busking regular playing a mean version of Moonshadow by Cat Stevens on his accordion today during my lunch break. 
Subconsciously fulfilling the 
As the sound of the freight train faded off into the distance and the railroad crossing bells came into view, I continued recording while deliberately walking on top of the large gravel that surrounded the train tracks. I particularly like the course crunching sound my footsteps made on the large gravel in contrast to the the softer sound of the finer gravel path leading away from the tracks. The wind screen helped but you can still hear some of it on the diaphragm giving the recording some lackluster, non-technical characteristics. 
Here’s another recording made with the 3g iPod field recording kit I described in the last entry. This time I managed to get the device to record properly using the 96kHz sampling rate. I’m using the mic input on the iPod via the headphone jack, so the recordings are still in mono.