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stories and photos from northern Minnesota, USA, on the southern edge of the great boreal forest
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January 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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The Peace of Wild Things By Wendell Berry When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
January 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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So clean.

#superiornationalforest
An unmarred fresh snowfall on a forest service road, flanked by a snowy forest.
November 25, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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My late-season deer hunts usually turn into your basic woods-tromping exploration. Just look at the cool stuff.
Meandering insect patterns on a standing dead aspen trunk. An old broken bottle from an abandoned 1910s homestead site, embossed with the words “Duluth Bottling Works.” Curved ice crystals seemingly growing out of the earth on a muddy forest floor. Bright green, tiny, star-shaped moss growing on a dead balsam fir branch.
November 25, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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bog cranberry, superior national forest, USA
The image shows a close-up view of wild cranberry plants growing on the ground. The plants have small, leathery leaves with a reddish-green coloration, and the red berries are scattered among the foliage. The ground is covered with natural debris such as twigs, moss, and dried grass, creating a natural forest floor setting.
November 18, 2024 at 6:12 PM