Photo by Jack Madsen

Reflections of a Wedding Reception, long ago:

Katherine Hubbard and her new husband, Henry Ervin, caught in a
fleeting moment in the hallway mirror.

Photo by Jack Madsen

  A little tree toad usually climbs my kitchen window,
snatching bugs and moths attracted by the light. Tonight he
managed to jump out onto the hummingbird feeder. Do you suppose
he's waiting to ambush a hummingbird in the morning?

A Man of Iron - Jack Madsen

Win Grundmeier was really feeling his oats today. After we finished
taking pictures down below Minneopa Falls, he ran all the way
back up the stone stairway, pounded on his chest, and bragged,
"I'll bet I can push that red oak right on over!" And, by golly,
he did! Here you see the photographic proof!

 

Jack Madsen

Meeting Lisa Kelly from Ice Road Truckers - Holly Mehltretter

 

I am sending these pictures because these two little boys have been playing ice road truckers for quite awhile. I haven't any good pictures of them on their semi though it was amazing how happy Hollis was to meet Lisa Kelly. Names are Hollis Knish (age 4) of Elysian and Tristan Mehltretter (age 4) of Mankato.

 

Grandma Holly Mehltretter of North Mankato

Ice Road Truckers - Holly Mehltretter

 

I am sending these pictures because these two little boys have been playing ice road truckers for quite awhile. I haven't any good pictures of them on their semi though it was amazing how happy Hollis was to meet Lisa Kelly. Names are Hollis Knish (age 4) of Elysian and Tristan Mehltretter (age 4) of Mankato.

 

Grandma Holly Mehltretter of North Mankato

Ice Road Truckers - Holly Mehltretter

 

I am sending these pictures because these two little boys have been playing ice road truckers for quite awhile. I haven't any good pictures of them on their semi though it was amazing how happy Hollis was to meet Lisa Kelly. Names are Hollis Knish (age 4) of Elysian and Tristan Mehltretter (age 4) of Mankato.

 

Grandma Holly Mehltretter of North Mankato

Photo by Sharon Sykora

Photo taken on the Kasota Prairie, July 2011.

A Puddles Perspective - Sara Peterson

"A Puddles Perspective"

Sara Peterson
 
www.sarajanephotography.net
 
 

Farmamerica grant

­ The Board of Directors of the Minnesota Agricultural Interpretive Center ­ Farmamerica was presented, during a recent meeting, with a check for $35,270 from Alliance Pipeline L.P. and its General Partner, Alliance Pipeline Inc. of Calgary, AB, Canada, to help construct a new facility known as the Farmamerica Environmental Education and Prairie/Wetlands Restoration project.   The sponsored portion of the project will be known as the Alliance Pipeline Prairie.  

Shown in the photo/check presentation are l/r front row:  James Gibson, Exec. Director (Farmamerica), Rick Bartlett (Alliance Pipeline-N. Mankato), Kathy Gessner (Janesville, Farmamerica  Board Member), Shannon Bode (Alliance Pipeline-N. Mankato), Edward C. Frederick, Chairman of the Board of Director.  Back row, lr: Farmamerica Board Members: Steve Melcher (Waseca), Bob Zelenka (Eagan), Greg Gosen (Albert Lea), Roy Johnson (Maple Grove), and Greg Bartz, DVM, (Sleepy Eye).

Photo by Jack Madsen

Somewhere, Over the Rainbow

The old Rainbow Bridge, formerly over the Little Cottonwood River
near Cambria in Cambria Township. Vestige of a simpler, quieter
time, still on duty, still beautiful!
This Rainbow Bridge may be the only one of its kind still
standing. The old riverbed was completely buried when the new road
was built. No water flows under this bridge any more. Young lovers
still scratch their names into the lichen -- for posterity.