Category: Travel
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Fifth Falls Trail: Gooseberry Falls State Park
Gooseberry Falls is one of Minnesota’s iconic State Parks. We have hiked the well-worn trail along the edges of the Falls and Gooseberry River countless times; it never gets old. This classic view (below), however, is one we left behind for one of our two geocaching hikes last weekend. Instead, we followed the Fifth Falls […]
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Tettegouche Lake Overlook Trail
“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” ~ John Muir This John Muir quote came to mind as my son and I hiked up the old gravel road with one of our black labs trotting happily alongside […]
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary
The Solitary Cypress This lone cypress tree compelled me to find a spot to stop the car and pull out the camera as we drove through the Val d’Orcia region of Tuscany last summer. A couple of other trees, just skeletal trunks and branches nearby, may have once kept it company, but now only the solitary cypress […]
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Iceberg Lake Trail ~ Glacier National Park
I love blogging. It is the greatest procrastination tool ever invented. As I take a break before tackling the next item on the to-do list, I take a quick look at WordPress and read a few posts, reminding me that this diverse world of ours is made up of so many interesting folks. But, I […]
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The Unpredictability of Fall Colors
Last year, the colors were absolutely amazing — an artist could not have painted them prettier! This year? The jury is still out. As a northern Minnesota storm seemed to come out of nowhere this afternoon, following a long dry spell (because the flood-ravaged people of Duluth prayed too hard in June, “no more rain”, and […]
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