Frick

Looking out from my perch close to the Kam toward the Ogilvie head house. To the left is a newer concrete annex, probably built in the years it bore the name Saskatchewan Pool 8.

A line of huge machines wait to be used as parts under a long-disused belt drive.

Depending on the position of the valve, flour could be routed from the filtering process back into a mill.

Birch shadows on stone walls… have you been looking at my Christmas list?

We mark our world in unexpected ways… this is how patient possessions would be stored during their stay in the old asylum wards. It’s about the size of a shoebox, and this particular drawer has a name where the others do not. Its place reminded me of the hospital cemetery where more than 3,000 are buried and less than 1% of whom are recorded by stone or plaque in their resting place.

The spectacular, if precarious, view of downtown Minneapolis from the roof of ADM Annex 4. Note the great messages left by various graffiti artists who made it to the spot.

SWP4-A on the left and Viterra C on the right in a 90-degree panorama.

An emergency slide to help workers evacuate the blending house in an emergency.

The white mark allowed for a manual RPM check on this big steel flywheel on the ground floor. Note how dark the bottom level of the mills is—that’s because all of the equipment is blocking out the light.