Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Franconia and Fluttery Fall Foliage: Alliteration Trip Up the St. Croix Valley

Fall is on crack this year. Not to rag on either Fall or anyone who is currently struggling with addiction problems, but REALLY? Why is Mid-November suddenly 60 degrees? Has something happened and somehow we are not Minnesota anymore? Oh wait... we ARE Minnesota.... thus the eff'ed-upness of our wonderful super-spaz weather. Hooray!

Well, since we are in Summer once again, I feel that today is a good day to reminisce about Fall. We had a beautiful two days of it a few weeks ago, and true to form, Kellen and I went wandering Northward, via the "super-stretch" of Fall-colors that line the St. Croix River.

Starting in Stillwater, we took a nice drive up Highway 95, stopping along the way to check out the awesome views of the River Just north of Stillwater.







Look! It's the New World! Let's go give the inhabitants some smallpox.

We kept driving north, on our way to my family home in North Branch, and on the highway just outside Franconia (TINY TOWN) we stumbled across one of Minnesota's most commonly overlooked gems, the Franconia Sculpture Park! IT. WAS. AWSOME. Their website is here if you'd like to learn more.



My favorite piece... built to look like the cable was pulling up an entire piece of earth.


Five!


Big lizard sees you...



Very Seuss-esque



Never been the same since that house fell on my sister... er... boyfriend...

The BEST thing about Franconia's Sculpture Park? It's free!

So get out and enjoy our second summer, because it's probably going to snow sometime soon!

-K

1 comments:

Carly said...

I have been to the sculpture park, it is really great, thanks for posting about it!