Tag: dogs
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Happy and Travel Theme: Animals
As I started to pull together photos for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge, finding those images that reflect what makes me “Happy,” I noticed a recurrent theme — the pets who have been part of our family throughout the years. So often, they were part of the happy memory, frozen in time through a snapshot. We believe…
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Winter Storm Watch? Really??
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for several counties in northern Minnesota. Snow may start to fly Thursday evening, with six inches of snow on the ground before Friday is done. Well, it is October now . . . but, couldn’t we at least let the leaves fall off of the trees…
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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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Leaving Cares Behind on the Trail
Another perfect early fall day, another run on the trails at the end of the day! I try to remind myself never to take for granted the beautiful surroundings in which I live in northern Minnesota. I even wore a fanny pack this time so I could take my Canon point-and-shoot rather than just the…
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The Joy of an Evening Run
Fall is my favorite time of year. Technically, it is still late summer, but the evenings have that crispness in the air, already-fallen leaves crunch underfoot on the trails, and colors are changing. While enjoyable anytime of year, going for an evening run on the trails in the fall after the end of a long work day…
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