one of my favorite STILL blog posts was the giant assemblage i did of everything on our terrace table as we were leaving our rented house in southwest France. it summed up three and half months of being fully present and paying attention. it also commemorated a place i had fallen in love with. it occurred to me recently that i had not yet honored my own home in the same way. in minnesota, we sit on the dividing line between the boreal forests of the north, the deciduous forests of the center and southeast, and the prairies and farms of the southwest. i also love that anyone from wisconsin, or michigan, or manitoba, or ontario, anyone from the great lakes region, could look at this photo and say, hey, that looks like home.

all from minnesota