It was a good opportunity to visit Gooseberry Falls State Park about 15 miles north of Two Harbors. I was cold enough that I didn't expect to see many other souls out walking along the Gooseberry River, but I was surprised to see quite a few hardy folks outside, taking pictures and walking on the ice of the stream. There was a newly married couple, the bride still in white, walking to the river to have photos taken to commemorate their union. She looked cold and he looked sympathetic to her plight. There were photographers of all ages out to capture the mood of the day. And us.
We encountered an ice climber, well equipped with spiked boots, a couple of ice axes and a good quantity of ropes as he was about to attempt to scale one of the falls.
A panorama of three of the Gooseberry Falls - two of the middle Falls and the lower falls.
I add for postscripted fun, another fine example of the kind of benches that one can find in the state parks of Minnesota. This one overlooks one of Gooseberry River's five waterfalls.
The Australian Open tennis tournament opens tomorrow in Australia. It's the first of tennis' grand slam events of 2012.
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Ah, pretty pictures. I remember going to Gooseberry Falls on that trip -- sweatshirts were required. You're right, it was cool.
Ice from falling water makes pretty good photographs, so I'm not surprised a bride was there for wedding photos.
On an aside, I saw on Facebook that our cousin Barb's husband was in the paper because his house was one of those with red dust - in that same small town as the girl from the north country. (Sometimes it is hard to be both specific and vague.) Do they know each other?
Funky bench.
If you click on the photo of the falls and view it full screen, it's a great shot.
Thanks for the compliments on the photos. It was a quite photogenic area. The GFTNC says she recognizes the name, probably from the post office, but doesn't know cousin Barb.
She does remember Tom Dunstan, however. Another long ago crushee.
So we have that in common. (The long ago crushee thing.)
I had a photo of Barb and Ed from the 2010 family reunion at Folles Avoine that I showed to TGFTNC and she remembers both of them. We also found the video on Duluth TV. Their PO Box is 211 in Keewatin.
She'd like to compare notes on that Dunstan boy.
That Dunstan boy was, and probably still is, a nice guy. It speaks well of both of us that we recognized that at such a young age.
Keewatin is a smallish town, so it isn't too surprising that she's met them. Still, the intersections of her life and yours are interesting. Punta Gorda, and now your cousin Barb? What are the odds?
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