my kids made the sweetest gesture the other day with out even realizing it. they spent a morning floating around the shallows of turtle lake, on eva’s paddleboard, to gather a sample of each kind of lake weed they could find. what I found at lunchtime was a bucket by my desk, filled to overflowing with weeds, and a note: “for STILL Blog, Mom”.  here are the results.

common minnesota lake weeds (wild celery, curly-leaf pondweed, cabbage leaf pondweed and others)

turtle lake, saint paul, minnesota