Season Change

As I went on my I-really-should-do-this-everyday walk this morning along a familiar path, I was reminded of how renewing it is that we have a change of seasons in Minnesota. The air was brisk, the sky was blue, the terrain was crunchy, brown and tired of winter:












And I remembered last fall when it looked like this:



































This morning the lake reflected the surrounding beiges and browns:





















Last fall it looked like this:

































My back yard garden this morning - apparently dead as a doornail:
















But in only 2 months it will look like this:






















































My Magnolia tree this morning, an April DOA...















will transform to this in just 1 month:
























Winter certainly has raised havoc with my front yard:
















Come June, this is what happens:
















This bony thing...





















is really a lush Japanese Lilac tree that blossoms in June:


















Oh, and this guy stays the same all year round.












Ain't life grand?