Minnesota

Aerial view of mainstreet in a small town. Scattered commercial businesses, surrounded by homes. There is a lake in the background.

Deerwood, Minnesota

On The Winter Shore

Aerial view of a highway interchange alongside of the Mississippi river.

Highway Interchange

Aerial view of a small town, with scattered one and two story buildings. The town is in foreground with woods in background. The sky is blue.

Downtown Crosby

Rum River Farmland

Aerial view looking down on complex of several baseball fields some small buildings for concessions and other stuff in the middle. One field is light blue, while the others are green.

Aerial view, looking straight down on a frozen river, horizontal in the image. A bridge cuts through the image and across the river at an angle. The frozen surface of the river is very different colors and textures.

River Ice

Ice heaves on Lake Mille Lacs. Large slabs of ice pusing against each other and up in the air 2' to 3' feet. Sky is blue and sunlight is reflecting off the smooth portions of the lake ice.

More Ice Heaves

Aerial view of a sand and gravel quarry and some of the heavy equipment used to separate and sort it.

Gravel Pit

Aerial view of a half dozen 'pull behind' ice houses all attached to pick up trucks on a frozen lake. One can see lots of small chuncks of broken ice that have froze back together through the surface of the ice. The ice house in the foreground is flying an American flag along with one that say's "F--k Biden."

Politics on Ice

Close up of a pile of large slabs of ice protruding from the surface of a frozen lake. We can barely see the other side of lake in the distance. The sky is blue with a thin veil of white clouds.

Ice Slabs

An aerial view of a frozen lake near sunset. We catch a little color in the sky and in the trees along the shore. A solitary ice fishing house stands on the frozen lake.

Chilly Lakeshore

Aerial photo of a red barn and brown log house in a forest of mostly bare trees. Many of the trees are catching light and casting long shadows from a setting sun.

Barnyard

Aerial photo of downtown Aitkin, MN. We see the water town and lots of 1-3 story buildings. In the background, we can faintly make out the Aitkin airport.

Aitkin, MN

Aerial view looking over corner of frozen lake. Lake is bordered by forest covered in frost.

Mille Lacs Forest Icing

Looking over a very large frozen lake at the sun just touching the horizen. Sunset is reflected in scattered clouds of an otherwise blue sky. Dark branches frame the view on either side of image.

Aerial photo of a frozen lake with the borders of a race track track outlined in snow. There is no one on the lake or on the race track. It's emply. Beyond the lake is a forest of bare trees and in the far background another much larger lake.

Emtpy Ice Track

Ice Art

Ice Art

Looking straight down on frozen lakeshore. Buildings and docks are visible on shore, but focus of photo is a series of paths plowed in the snow on the ice that seem to be several windy paths for ice skating that intersect. We only see portions of the paths.

Ice Skating Path

Aerial photo of an open river flowing into a frozen lake. It's near sunset and you can see the sun in the trees. The woods on either side of river are covered in scattered snow.

Looking straight down at water flowing from ice covered lake into an open stream or small river. Jagged ice formations form the teeth in the mouth of the river.

Aerial view of a narrow river winding through a marsh. In foreground is a farm field lightly covered in snow. In distance are some woods.

Looking straight down on a house/cabin on a snowy peninsula justting into a frozen lake. It's near sunset and the buildings and trees are casting interesting shadows.

Pointed Shadows

Looking along the shore of a large lake. A strip of previously broken ice has frozen back together and further out we see smooth ice and then open water. The sky is blue.

Choppy Ice

Drone photo looking straight down at small parking lot outside of school entrance. Two lanes of traffic circle the small parking lot with arrows directing traffic in one direction. Another parking lot nearby and parts of the school roof are also visible.

Parking Lot Traffic Patterns

Aerial view of a contruction site where lots of dirt has been moved around. The ground is mostly brown, with interesting shapes and patterns generated by the construction equipment.

Aerial view of a forest, with a road cutting diagonally through the trees. Various openings in the trees create interesting shapes. Sky is mostly clear and blue.

Aerial view of frozen river. The sky is blue and there are gentle rolling hills with forests on either side of the river. A two lane highway runs along the left side of the river. The sky is blue with scattered clouds.

Aerial view of a relatively small dam that seems to be generating electricity. The water about the dam ins mostly frozen, below the dam the water is open. The lake above the dam is surrounded by bare trees and the ground is covered by a very light snow cover.

Frozen Dam

Looking straight down on a road/bridge passing over a patch of open water, but surrounded by ice.

Bridge Over Freezing Water

Forest of bare brown trees in foreground. In background we see a very large lake cover with ice on left and right, but a strip of open water in the middle.

Mille Lacs Freeze

A family of 5 swans on a very large lake, three of which are visibly colored to indicate they are still young, despite being the size of their parents.

Aerial view of an underground cabin, built into a small hill on a small peninsula on a frozen lake.

Meanwhile, back in the Shire...

Aerial view of open water in the middle of a swamp, with zig zaggy strips of vegitation dividing pond into small sections.

Swamp Maze

Looking across a very still lake at a McDonalds restaurant just after dark. Lights in parking lot are bright and the yellow arches are reflected in the lake.

Fast Food Reflections

Photo of sunset over a frozen lake with the small silouette of a very small ice house and 4 wheeler in the middle of the frozen lake.

Thin Ice

Looking straight down on a sharp bend in the road. North of road are bare trees without leaves and south of the road are evergreen trees that appear yellow at the top, caused by the setting sun.

Bend in the Road

Low angle photo of the lake shore with ice and floating snow extending about 30-40 feet into the lake and then open water.

Lake Icing

Aerial photo of Rum River with a thin coat of ice. River divides photo in half with farms on either side of river.

Frozen Rum

Looking straight down on a red tile rooftop seperating a plowed field and various small buildings, trailers, and boats being stored in a courtyard.

Rusty Courtyard

Close up image of some high powered lights with plowed farm fields in background.

Aerial view of a swamp area in the fall when all the grass and vegitation is brown. A lone bare tree stands in the middle of the brown grass.

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Aerial view of a farm house, barn, and other buildings situated between two lakes. A road passes by on the far side of the farm, the freshly cut lawn is bordered by brown tall grass. The buildings are tinted pink from the sunset happening behind us.

Farm House

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