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Happy new year | How About Orange We had a great time with my family for Christmas. It's a 9-hour drive to the farm in Minnesota where the view looks like this in every direction (minus the tree, generally). We stopped at the Spam Museum in Austin, MN on the way. It made me hungry for a spamburger. You should go if you're ever in that neck of the woods. Or plains.

Hope you all had a nice break. Best wishes for a blessed and happy 2008! See more: travel 
Oh, c'mon... the view's not THAT bad! After all, it's not Nebraska! ;-)

I LIKE my view! And the Marshmallow Icicles are so pretty!

Love and miss you,

January 2, 2008 at 9:45 AM 
That's not a bad view! I think it's beautiful!

January 2, 2008 at 10:03 AM b-nut said...

I didn't know our g'parents (the knutson side) lived so close together...I assume that you didn't drive too far to get to the Spam museum. Happy New Year!

January 2, 2008 at 10:04 AM 
My parents are another 3 hours west of the Spam Museum. It was a stop on the way. Still, relatively speaking, that's close!

January 2, 2008 at 10:09 AM 
I thought you were talking about the 'plain'-ness of it... as in nothing to see (but snow right now) on the plains. We do have a few trees around here, and lots of 'em are in better shape than that one. :-)

I agree, it's a lovely scene.


January 2, 2008 at 10:13 AM monkeymoo said...

gorgeous pic!!!

January 2, 2008 at 10:47 AM 
great photo! I love the bare tree against the bare sky.

January 2, 2008 at 11:03 AM Mahan said...

Ah, delicious SPAM! I had the opportunity to have a SPAMburger at the dedication of the WWII Memorial in lovely and talented downtown St. Paul last year.

What? Where else did you THINK I would have one?

Incidentally, the veterans there devoured them. Go figure.

January 2, 2008 at 11:25 AM 
Beautiful ... I live closer to the Mississipi and we have more hills but still very lovely. Wish I lived closer to Chicago sometimes. Happy New Year. I enjoy your website but don't comment often.

January 2, 2008 at 11:33 AM kasey said...

Spam is awesome. I'm from Hawaii so I've eaten it all my life. Yay for the Spam Museum!

January 2, 2008 at 2:01 PM 
There is something wonderful about Minnesota in the winter.

(I just got back from Duluth.) :)


January 2, 2008 at 5:18 PM 
Happy New Year. Hope 2008 turns out better than you imagined. Glad you had a nice break with your husband, family and what appears to be a special mum.

January 2, 2008 at 9:12 PM 
Minnesota - land of infinite variety! Just thought I'd let you know that all the snow got rearranged this morning, so the scenery looks different now. 40 MPH winds on the plains can do a LOT of rearranging!

Mum hates wind. And scooping.

January 3, 2008 at 4:50 PM