August 1999. You betcha! My bride and I went to Minnesota to visit her Aunt "Laney". We borrowed Uncle Marshall's car and drove up to Stewart Lake in Crow Wing County. My wife has wonderful memories of the times that she spent at the lake when she was young. She cried while she walked around looking at the cottage. The place had changed of course but not very much. On the way there I spotted this orchard of trees. This is a field grown tree farm. These Lombardy Poplar trees are ready to be dug up and boxed for sale in nurseries in the area. They are mostly used as "living fences" and windthrows to protect buildings from the harsh drifting snows that Minnestoa is famous for. The yellow color and the hundreds of trees all in very straight rows caught me eye so we stopped for this photo.
A little further down the road I spotted this hay field and couldn't resist taking another photo.
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