 I believe this is one of my cousins. |
 A peaceful scene. Unfortunately, a large part of the time the weather was overcast. |
 The lake was dead calm. |
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 Sunset. |
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 Here I am posing with their dog. |
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 My Aunt tending her flowers. |
 My cousin Mara. |
 My Aunt in her kitchen. |
 I drove up to Itasca State Park, the see the headwaters of the Mississippi River. I have always been interested in the Mississippi and if I had grown up in a different area I might have been a "river rat". |
 "The Mississippi's mighty, but it starts in Minnesota At a place where you can walk across with five steps down..." That is a lyric from the Indigo Girls song Ghost. I did walk across it, so I can say that I have! |
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 The area had some bad storms a week prior to my visit. This is tornado damage in Itasca State Park. |
 My Uncle fishing. |
 My cousin Mara and I went out fishing one night. It was pretty dark, and one of my casts disturbed some resting ducks - scaring the bejeezus out of both of us. Fun times! |
 I'm not sure what he was doing, but I'll bet it had something to do with fireworks! |