Belwin Conservancy. Afton, Minnesota

from flickr user Terry MacVey
A sapphire blue sky interspersed with clouds hangs over the slowly changing prairie grass and wild flowers at the Belwin Conservancy in Afton, Minnesota as summer turns to autumn.

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Best of MinnPics - October 2013

from flickr user w. dearborn
A whitetail deer bounding through a golden expanse of prairie is just one of those scenes that not only screams October, as deer bed down before hunting season and feast on ripe corn, but also screams Minnesota in general. It's an action photo and a landscape photo which happens to combine two of my favorite types of photos. There are probably dozens of photos which others may feel are more deserving of being called the best of October but this captures the essence of October in Minnesota.

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Fall's reflection on the prairie

from flickr user SMR Labs
Taken at TOuch the Sky Prairie, the clouds are perfectly reflected in this picturesque pon framed by a stand of prairie grass.

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Autumn Sunset

from flickr user SMR Labs
Taken at one of Minnesota's many State Parks, the sun sets across a stretch of prairie reigned in by a fence. Soak it in as fall doesn't last forever.

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Are We There Yet?

from flickr user novice09 
The photographer says: Not all of the prairie is flat. Here is a section of Hwy 50 between New Trier, MN and Meisville, MN with some pretty good hills. And this section really drifts in the winter too. A thru the windshield shot with just a bit of "dusk" treatment and a little of my brown smoke texture.

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