#minnesota winter

[infantandinnocent]

finland, minnesota

april 2019

[katriniac]

I will never EVER stop loving the view of naked branches against blue skies.

My little 10 minute walk turned into almost 45 minutes because I stopped so many times simply to stare up into the bare trees.

I know most people don't like this part of winter. The snow is dirty, the melting piles reveal dog poop everywhere, the patches of grass are brown.

But that's why you should look up.

Not down.

Gaze at the beauty of gray-brown against pale blue. Study the way the branches arc and stretch across the sky.

[loudsoftsonance]

April snow. Thanks Minnesota.

[shredderwest]

*I wish to lay down in the snow and hear the quiet sound of snowflakes melting on my skin.

I long to see my breath leaving me in the cold evening air so I can be reminded that I am alive.

I want to throw open the curtains in the morning and be dazzled by the tiny beauty of ice crystals mixing with old fingerprints on the windows.

Some may never love the winter but I will always cherish these tiny moments because younger me might never have given myself the chance.*

Original poem by me (Shredder) while I wait for snow to come in Minnesota. There’s something about this year that has really made me look forward to the snow and cold. Maybe it’s being in a new city away from my abusive family, maybe it’s realizing I’m bigger than my trauma, or maybe it’s that I don’t think about wanting to die anymore. I’m not sure but I can’t wait to heal my inner child with the beautiful cold!

[meekamaye]

Winter Memories

(I wrote this a couple of years ago on a very cold Minnesota day. Today it is 91 degrees on the last day of July.) This time of year puts me in mind of my grandparents cabin in northern Minnesota. I stroll through the cabin once again and recall the little cast iron stove that heated the three main rooms; the living room, kitchen and bedroom. The back bedroom, which had been my brother’s was…

[maureen2musings]

Lake Superior storm

georgeduluth

[stuffaboutminneapolis]

Art Sled Rally at Powderhorn Park!

via Axios Twin Cities

#Minnesota #Minneapolis

[a-stark-photography]

[visenyaism]

I don’t care if it snowed in your neighborhood and you got to go on a quiet nighttime walk looking up into the purple-grey sky marveling at the snowflakes coming down with the streetlights glowing warm all around you that should have happened to ME instead

[lambness]

[infantandinnocent]

the suns been making a come back these past couple days

[kelseykingillustration]

I still can't get over this one sunset I saw back in January.

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Gray skies over the Bog, Sax-Zim, Minnesota

Taken February 2024

[alshaverpressbox]

(through a mouthful of grapes) I think you're really hot, man

[azvee]

Help Crown Bubbles Queen of the Winter Carnival!

Bubbles is trying to win a contest to become the Doggie Winter Carnival Queen in Minnesota right now! If she won, Bubbles would get a little blurb in the local papers, walk in the parade, and be crowned at the Doggie Depot event.

I adopted her a few years ago when she got retired from a breeding program and she's been the sweetest girl. She comes into work with me every day and has been given the unofficial title of HR. (It's a real upgrade from her days in PR, puppy resources.) Bubbles can't read yet; but has promised to start working on the ever growing pile of paperwork as soon as she learns!

She loves naps and only occasionally sneaks into the cat's litter box to eat the forbidden kitty cookies. Bubbles also acts as a lifeguard whenever I take a shower and will start crying if I'm in there too long to make sure I don't accidentally drown.

It takes all of 3 clicks to give her a vote and it would mean the world to me if you did!

This is her 1980's high school photo.

[abwicca]

midwestern winters feel so liminal and haunting at night.

(some shots from 1.28.25)