10,000 words

I have read that the Inuit have a 1000 words for snow.
This year I have 10,000 images of snow in my head.
Fortunately I only share a fraction of them.

More snow, this time a real blizzard

Someone at Barnes and Noble has a Sense of Humor!

Ice: Sculptures and Hockey

Hopefully These guys do not breath fire.

On the Frozen Shores of Gitchigumi or something like that....

A peek of the GuthrieA Frozen Mill City Park

Minnehaha Park in Winter.

This guy hangs out where the creek meets the Mississippi.

Not everyone makes it through the winter....

Dodge Nature Center

Snow Art

My dad has an eye for seeing

the beauty of nature.

This morning he pointed out

this natural snow sculpture

coming off the side of his house.

The late afternoon light did nice things to the snow drifts.

The Blizzard of 2010

Big snow. Huge winds.

The biggest storm since 1991.

Kevin and I are hunkering down at home.

Bill stuck at work.

Martha "stuck" at her friend's house .

Joe enjoying the day in balmy Duluth.

I have cleared out the driveway twice so far but you would not know it.

Walking to Lunds was challenging

but MUCH easier than trying to drive or take a bus!

This is from last week when I ALMOST got a photo of a crow.

Sightings

It is hard not to feel a connection to animals. ( except of course squirrels and cockroaches)

I have been lucky to see many in my walks lately.

There is a huge community of robins that winter along the creek below Minnehaha falls.

Today they were very active. Some were bathing in the creek!

Any ideas as to the identity of this mystery animal I saw running along the creek?

It seemed larger than a mink but smaller than I fisher.

I am guessing it was a big mink.

These beauties are hanging out at Sucker lake .

I think they are Tundra swans.

Red-bellied Woodpecker

A little off-topic but too cute to exclude.

This crow was making the case that he is not a water fowl.