Nature Photography: January 2008 Archives

Last weekend was a glorious day, sunny, mid-thirties, which here in Minnesota means it was like walking around in the Bahamas on a breezy summer day.  And it was the day they carved the ice sculptures in Rice Park, downtown St. Paul.







And a shout out to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who watches over Rice Park and its sculptures forever and ever.

Cattails on Coon Lake, Anoka County, MN.  On a sunny afternoon the winter here is so beautiful, but for the last several days it's been mostly dreary, cloudy, foggy, melty. Our January thaw is coming to an end, however, as temperatures may drop into the minus teens Fahrenheit in a week or so.  But these cattails will still be there, on Coon Lake, frozen until spring, when they melt with the snow into the marsh and feed the new green growth of midsummer.