Mary Lubinski

Last year my husband Brian and I sat pondering what we should do to celebrate our June wedding anniversary. After quite a bit of hemming and hawing and none of the ideas really sounding that fun, we decided to take a 4-night canoe trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). The last time we had been to this watery, million plus acre wilderness area in northeastern Minnesota, was to celebrate my 50 th birthday, and more than a couple additional birthdays had passed since that time.

Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes. But there is another thing that Minnesota is known for… embraced by the hearty and feared by those that live in temperate climates year-round. I’m talking about snow.

Black-Eyed Susan’s. Compass Plant. Purple Coneflower. Ironweed. Rattlesnake Master. Bee Balm. Blanket Flower.

I started to notice the first signs of fall while mowing my lawn in late July. The leaves on the sumac bushes had a hint of yellow to them. Now in October, the brilliant mosaic of red, yellow and orange leaves on the trees are eye candy and an obvious sign of the changing season. Fall is here!