FABULOUS FALL LEAVES OF MINNESOTA

As you can see by the graph, revised on October 3, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources offers an updated color run of leaves each business day. According the ranger at Scenic State Park, the numbers are up to the discretion of the ranger.

Old Trunks wonders why the sites don't say things like, "Red Maples brilliant". Or "Tamaracks to turn soon". That would help a daughter who drove from Minneapolis after she learned the leaves at Maplewood State Park were supposed to be PRIME. Imagine the daughter and her father looking for leaves of color when she had driven through much prettier leaves on the way to his town!

We knew when we went to Maplewood we were chancing 50-75% and even though it was on the low side, the run was worth it, although the fishing was on the low, low, low side! The weather was great and we were just one less day of winter in the mid west.

Yesterday we wanted to get into those areas on the map that were 75-100%. It would mean about 500 miles round trip. The kind you face the sun in the morning as it rises and in the evening as it sets. Home is when the moon is up. That didn't seem to matter, we would go to Grand Rapids and beyond.

Over the next few days, I will keyboard less and offer you pictures of what we have seen on our journey's of the last few weeks. For those of you who lived in Minnesota, you will, no doubt, remember the breath taking beauty.