The last winter at Minnesota was mild, with only couple of snowstorms and sub-zero temperature for couple of days. The spring is also earlier than usual! Even though there are many kind of flowers popping up soon after soil showed, daffodils, which are symbols of rebirth, new beginnings, hope, joy, good luck, are always the … Continue reading The Songs of Spring Time
Our mother natural always provides us with her beautiful feathers regardless of weather conditions. During year 2023, I went to the same local place - a Japanese Garden to explore impact from seasons' change. At Minnesota the temperature can range from forty below to 100 degrees throughout a year. The garden showed its unique features during … Continue reading Four Seasons at Japanese Garden
Lots of times, the symmetric shape happens in the areas of architectures. Couple of weeks ago I visited State Capitol of Minnesota, which are considered as one of the Midwest's most spectacular buildings. The Capitol is more than 430 feet long, and 220 feet tall from ground level to the top of the dome's lantern. … Continue reading The Symmetry
The fall season at Minnesota is short, lasts for only a month, which is October. We didn't go far to see the fall colors this year, since we finally noticed that the colors around our neighborhood are just as stunning as those in national or state parks! The shore of Normandale lake, which is less … Continue reading A Sign of Colors’ Peak
Around a year ago, I visited an exhibition hosted at local zoo, named as "Jack'o Lantern Spectacular". Thousands of carved pumpkins were displayed for upcoming Halloween. There were some pumpkins carved as normal as usually seen in front of people's front yards, except that they were pilled up together to create scenarios as groups of … Continue reading After a Year, I Still Don’t Know How They Did it……
Just wandering our backyard another day, I found a pair of joy - a pair of new born fawns. Welcome to this beautiful world, hope you have a great time exploring around!
It was April 1st, also April fool day! For the most parts of the places, it was start of spring time, accompanied by plants sprouting, temperature rising, birds chirping and people outing. But on this passing fool day, out mother nature brought Minneapolis / St. Paul areas with a gift of another big snowstorm. This … Continue reading Spring Time? Not Quite!
Rime is a very common part of the winter wonderland at Minnesota. It covers plants with white but textured mixture of ice and snow. Sometime it remains me of fairytale world which I had in my dream as a young child. We will soon welcome a very white Christmas season!
One of the local traditions at Minnesota is growing pumpkins. The weight of grown pumpkins can range from less than a pound to over 2,500 pounds to set a record. Sometimes a huge pumpkin (over 2,000 pounds) was lift into air by a crane and drop onto grass at a harvest fest. The people around … Continue reading The Season for Jack-O-Lanterns
Time flys, with blink of eyes we are in October, which means we can say goodbye to summer, and give fall a warm welcome. One of my favorite photography topics in fall is display of various pumpkins. Starting October 01 of each year, there is a huge collection of pumpkins (I was told over 300 … Continue reading Beautiful “Audrey”
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