Fall Flowers

 Fall brings shorter days and cooler nights.  Even the sunsets look different.

The cornfields are turning brown, not like the rich green of a month ago.  The trees are beginning to turn.

Minnesota has just two seasons, Winter is here and Winter is coming.  Thus, the Fall beauty serves as a reprieve for what is coming.

All around us the Fall flowers are springing to life.  This is the look of our morning walk near the lake.

Then there are the white flowers by the creek next to our cabin.

One of these Fall days I will drive over the hill to take pictures of Lake Wobegon.  Yes, it is difficult to find Lake Wobegon.  National Geographic Magazine had an article some years ago (December 2000) about Lake Wobegon but could not find it.  They had to settle on a locality, somewhere between us and St. Cloud.  Garrison Keillor would not help them find the town, but explained why it is not on the map:

"I said that Lake Wobegon (pop. 942) took its name from the Ojibwa word that means “the place where we waited all day for you in the rain,” and if anyone asked why the town appeared on no maps, I explained that when the state map was drawn after the Civil War, teams of surveyors worked their way in from the four outer corners and, arriving at the center, found they had surveyed more of Minnesota than there was room for between Wisconsin and the Dakotas, and so the corners had to be overlapped in the middle, and Lake Wobegon wound up on the bottom flap".

Bad luck.  Lake Wobegon exists but not any map.  It is lost under the fold of the original map of Minnesota.  But we know a lot about the town thanks to Garrison and his famed radio show "Prairie Home Companion"'  He spoke of the news from Lake Wobegon.  Here is a sample for you to enjoy from his Fall album, from the Master himself.  He has been called "America's Storyteller".  Enjoy.