High above The Land of 10,000 (frozen) Lakes.

Zorbaz in winter.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

It is -5ºF outside, but an ice fisherman stays toasty warm in his fish house.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota

These swans on a frozen Minnesota Lake seem a bit confused now that their water world has turned to ice.

Backflip off of Long Bridge.

Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Sunset on a frozen lake.

Central Minnesota.

Fields in West Central Minnesota lie dormant under a light dusting of snow.

Ice fisherman on Lobster Lake near Alexandria, Minnesota.

Normally, at this time of year, people would have no qualms about driving 3/4 ton pickups out on the ice to their fish houses, but unseasonably warm winter weather in Minnesota has left the ice much thinner than normal.

After sunset on a frozen Minnesota lake.

Autumn’s days are numbered in Minnesota lake country. Geese wing southward as a pretty fall sunset caps off the day.

A Clouded Sulfur butterfly drinking in the last few drops of nectar in Minnesota’s waning Indian Summer.

Milbert’s Tortoiseshell Butterfly (Aglais milberti) on Sedum flowers in a fall Minnesota garden.

Peak autumn colors, Maplewood State Park.

Near Pelican Rapids in West Central Minnesota.

Autumn sunset ― Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.

Morning calm panorama.

Walker Bay, Leech Lake, Minnesota.