This morning was absolutely gorgeous as we woke up to Mother Nature's best hoar frost paint job I have seen for some time. We had been planning to go to Frontenac State Park near here for some snow shoeing so we headed out early to try catch the hoar frost on our jaunt.
Our timing was great.. the frost was just starting to fall off as we wandered amongst the trees. The area we were in overlooked Lake Pepin which borders Wisconsin on one side and Minnesota on the other. We were quite impressed with the number of ice fishermen on Pepin until we left the park for Red Wing and noticed a fishing derby on another small lake nearby. This ice fishing thing is a national past-time here in 'sota!
We decided to carry on around Lake Pepin after lunch and were so happy that we did. We found a winery that we had visited last summer and was open so we bought a couple of bottles to go with our nightly dark chocolate. Then followed the Mississippi River to a town called Alma where we drove up to an overlook that was breathtaking on such a nice sunny day. Finally, we visited the local tourist center which has binoculars and telescopes set up to view the 30+ pairs of bald eagles that are nesting in the area and fish the open waters by the Alma Dam.
Life is Good!
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