Great Views from AAM and Minnesota Valley

As always, the recent AAM conference (Minneapolis this time) was great fun and extremely informative.  I can’t believe how terrific the exhibit hall was this year – absolutely chock-a-block with cool, innovative, and very USEFUL new techno stuff that no one can resist playing with (and learning from, despite ourselves).  

I also trekked over to the Bloomington Visitor Center of Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge to see the new exhibit installation, which I researched and wrote but hadn’t yet seen.  Wow!  The building itself is a knock-out, all beautiful stonework and natural light, and the exhibit colors and images complement the setting marvelously.  As for the text:  I’m happy.  It’s short, simple, and interpretive in a way that should inspire general readers/visitors to look closely, explore, and learn more in that vast, wild, wet landscape just outside the windows.