Horizontal Snow – Duluth, MN

from flickr user Dave Schauer

The photographer says: The wind sock high above Rices Point yard tells the story as light snow is blowing sideways as a CP transfer picks up 50 grain loads for Riverland. Had we received snow instead of rain the previous day it would have been a full blown blizzard. Welcome to March in Minnesota, it must be state high school hockey tournament time.

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Winter Fence Post - Rural Minnesota

from flickr user Adam Johnson
Taken in sprawling Sibley County, MN, this fence line in between farms acts as a windbreak as it stops snow blowing across the open fields. Taken before our blanket of snow began to melt, there is definitely an air of peace and serenity in this winter scene.

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Victory Memorial Parkway - Winter Storm

from flickr user Tony Webster
A winter snow storm covers Victory Memorial Parkway at 42nd Avenue North near the border of North Minneapolis and Robbinsdale, Minnesota.

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Sunrise over Lake Minnetonka

from flickr user John Felix Mackey
A cold but orange sunrise makes its way over the horizon on St. Alban's Bay on Lake Minnetonka. Known during the summer months as a sort of playground with waves for the affluent and young who live near the largest lake in the Twin Cities with its seemingly endless number of bays and channels, the winter months leave a sense of serenity with a thin layer of snow covering the ice beneath.

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December Sky

from flickr user Benjamin Sullivan
As the sun sets on a December afternoon, approaching clouds are lit brilliantly with yellows, oranges and pinks; turning the fresh coating of snow somewhat blue.

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T in the lake - Wright County, MN

from flickr user photodog42
A gloriously stark, gray photo after the recent snowfall depicting a desolate rural intersection with roads rising above a small, ice-covered lake. It sets the mood for this time of year when it can be snowing one day and 70 degrees the next, or vice versa.

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Lake Superior January Morning

from flickr user John Krumm
A seeming endless expanse of white is seen as the snow-covered land adjacent to Lake Superior seamlessly transitions to the icy waters of the largest of the Great Lakes.

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Shoe prints in the snow

from flickr user Stearns County MN
A dusting of fluffy, crystal-like snow lies undisturbed on a central Minnesota lake except for one set of freshly made shoe prints.

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Albert Lea Lake - Albert Lea, MN

from flickr user Darcy
Waves of snow under the setting sun on Albert Lea's Albert Lea Lake make  delicate and almost alien formations in this photo taken on New Year's Day.

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Best of MinnPics - February 2014

from flickr user alleyraven
A wintry scene near St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis earns the title of Best of MinnPics 2014 for February. Capturing the sometimes overlooked beauty of our long winters in Minnesota, the photographer was in the right place after what appears to be a light snowfall which left the tree branches coated in a light frosting of snow and the meandering strip of nearly black water contrasts so vividly with the crisp and clean snow that it's hard to believe such serenity exists within the boundaries of Minneapolis.

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Snelling State Trail

from flickr user Keith M
Taken after much of our November snow had melted due to a balmy weekend, there are still lingering hints of fall color at the edge of the paved trail as it meanders its way through the scenic woodlands within Fort Snelling State Park.

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Lake Superior slowly thaws

from flickr user Karen Ramsdale
While the days of snow blanketing the landscape are hopefully behind us for a few months, this scene from the shores of Lake Superior seems to be a study in the contrast of seasons. Open and frigid water in stark contrast to thick blanket of snow on the rugged and rocky banks of the greatest of the Great Lakes.

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Melting Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis

from flickr user Aaron
A picturesque, tree-lined Minnehaha Creek has a particular, if hard-to-describe beauty to it as the remnants of this winter's snow melts to reveal open water and (hopefully soon) green grass lining the banks.

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Target Field blanketed in snow

from flickr user doug wallick
The Minneapolis Skyline from Target Field during Twins Fest in January. A few weeks later and now much closer to the start of baseball season for the Minnesota Twins, the snow on the field has been removed and most of the snow in the stands melted in yesterday's short-lived heatwave.

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Winter Sunset - Shakopee, Minnesota

from flickr user Alexander Lamar
Even with a landscape blanketed in deep snow, the setting sun in Shakopee, MN reveals a palette of vibrant blues, oranges, pinks and yellows.

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Fort Snelling State Park

from flickr user LizNemmers
A pair of whitetail deer making their way through the deep snow pose form an intrepid photographer in St. Paul's Fort Snelling State Park.

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Sucker Creek Trail After February Snowstorm

from flickr user tjwilli222
The Sucker Creek trail covered with 7.50 inches [19.05 cm] of new snow from February 20 snowstorm. Photographed February 21, 2014 at Vadnais-Sucker Lakes Regional Park, Vadnais Heights, Minnesota

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Snowy barn in Henning, MN

from flickr user PaintedSpur2013
A barn in Henning, Minnesota sits in front of a line of trees amidst a small meadow with snow and fog blanketing the landscape.

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Atlanta, GA along I-175

from flickr user gtcube
This is what happens when a couple inches of snow and a light glazing of ice falls upon a large, southeastern United States metropolis. Atlanta, GA received just that sort of mix resulting in a state of emergency as our nation's southern cities are not even remotely prepared as we are here in Minnesota and other northern  cities. The photo above shows the city's Interstate 75 with parked semis which simply gave up in the stalled traffic and stayed parked through the night.

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Brave brown bird

from flickr user Jimmy_Raccoon
Even in the depths of the coldest Minnesota winter in thirty years, this brave little bird with the cutest little red beak ever has stuck around and seems happy perched behind a framing line of snow.

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