Picture of Minnesota
Caption: Dreary....
...Dreamy
Caption: Winter in Minnesota can be bleak. It's cold, dark, and monochromatic. Yet there's an amazing vitality to our longest of seasons. Animals survive it, plants and trees hunker down and survive it, and we do too. We eat hearty food, drink tasty drinks, embrace it by enjoying winter sports, and we learn to search for beauty in the barren landscape.
This November has been unusually cold here in the Northland. But it has also been stunning. Serving as a reminder that one person's dreary is another's dreamy.
Picture of Shoreview
Caption: On the morning after the first snowfall, I went for a winter walk in an area I'd never been before. The whole world was new.
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Sucker Creek, Shoreview, MN
Picture of Minnesota
Caption: The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-J. B. Priestley
Picture of Minnesota
Picture of Minnesota
Caption: Occasionally, the the mercury rises above 32° creating a foggy winter wonderland.
Picture of Columbia Golf Club
Caption: In keeping with my vow to embrace winter every chance I get, I took a solo walk through the low-lying mist.
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Columbia Golf Course, Minneapolis
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Picture of Minnesota
Picture of Minnesota
Caption: Canada geese tracks in the snow
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Picture of St. Anthony's Cemetery
Caption: I wandered through the cemetery. And, as if on cue, the crows came to enjoy the fog too.
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St. Anthony Cemetery, Minneapolis
Picture of St. Anthony's Cemetery
Picture of Minnesota
Caption: This Thanksgiving week, here's to being thankful for finding beauty in everything. www.ritafarmer.com
