Minnesota 2014

Photos from a week exploring Minnesota. Lots of flowers and flower sculptures.

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Paper Kite Butterfly at the butterfly exhibit at Reiman Gardens, Ames, Iowa
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Butterfly that I can't manage to identify
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Blue Clipper Butterfly
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Art / Hydroponic growing structure
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Lotus flowers in Ames
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Art / Growing platform
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World's Largest Concrete Gnome & Ingrid
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Jeff and Plant #9 from Outer Space
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Ducklings!
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Minnesota Museum of Marine Art, Winona. Neat place.
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Deer near Lake Pepin
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A tree I probably should be able to identify
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Sky over Lake Pepin (a widening of the Mississippi River
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Turk's cap lily, or lilium superbum, a native lily
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Brown Dragonfly - Sympetrum semicinctum
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Black-Eyed Susan, with a Syrphid fly, Helophilus
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Minnesota Science Museum rock display
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Apple blossom sculpture by Craig Mitchell Smith
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Lilies
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Tropical Splendor by Craig Mitchell Smith
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More pretty lilies
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The Green Man, by Craig Mitchell Smith
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Fireball by Craig Mitchell Smith
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Poppies of Oz by CM Smith
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A purple flower quilt
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Ingrid, Helga and Roger with a few flowers