Minnesota here and there

The moon rise as well as this and the following few pictures were taken from my sister's deck off Highway 19, Lonsdale, Rice County. Her street is appropriately named Pond View Drive. These are early morning sunrise shots.

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Tucked way off any highway, fhis homeowner shows his pride in America in his own quiet way. Behind his house is Fox Lake in Rice County.

Lake Minnetonka is one of Minnesota's many large lakes with lots of activities to enjoy. With its 125 miles of shoreline carved by its bays, coves, islands and peninsulas, hundreds of picturesque scenes are to be had. This one of Maxwell Bay and the next few are some I took on a sunny late summer/early fall day in September.

Another of Minnesota's lakes is this one, Lake Nokomis, geographically located between Minneapolis and St. Paul. It's popular not only because of the lake itself, but also because of its two beaches with imported sand and the huge grassy park by the same name which surrounds it.

She may have given up this view from her bedroom window when she moved closer to the cities, but my sister doesn't regret it. St. Paul has trees, too!!

The Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis may be on the small side, as waterfalls go, but its 53-foot drop is impressive just the same. The fall is part of the Minnehaha Creek, a tributary of the Mississippi.

In southeast Minnesota very near the Wisconsin border is the home of my nephew Ben and his soulmate Liz. I visited their home, and they took me way back, deep in the heart of their 33 acres where they had discovered the remnants of a previous owner's hideaway...his open-air mancave, so to speak. The guy obviously enjoyed stone-carving and masonry. Here are a few pics of his now-deteriorating stonework and gazebo in which a hammock still hangs.