Street Scenes

There is not much scenic about Minnesota's February. The snow is still piled about two feet high in the yards and the streets that don't have black ice, are plagued with potholes. I took a couple of walks around the neighborhood today, partly to get some exercise, partly to run some errands, and partly on a quest for a photo to represent today. About a block from home this stop sign is buried to about half its height in dirty, crunchy snow. A lot of it was deposited by snow plows, snow blowers and shovel wielders. It's not a pretty sight, but is representative.



Further up the block at Grand Avenue are some businesses that are surrounded by gray lushness (?). The banks along the street are navigable for the hale and hearty, but intimidating for the aged and injured. Grand has a few potholes, but they are not nearly as impressive as the ones on the freeways and more heavily traveled routes. I hurried on after the photo, because the temperature was about twenty with a north wind and thus a significant wind chill.



The sun is getting higher in the sky and the odds are good that the snow and ice will be gone in six weeks or so. The odds are also good that the good people living along the Red River in Fargo and Moorhead are going to get flooded out again this year.

We love it here.