Mississippi riverside train in Munsinger Gardens in St. Cloud, MN

Once we all returned from the island and settled back into our home in St. Cloud, Minnesota, we selected a photo of our home town for the next blog background.  The change from Caribbean-sunset oranges and sandy-beach browns to the forest greens of Minnesota is stark.

View of the sea as seen from Rainbow Beach, the complex where we lived while in St. Martin

This is the background image we kept on the blog for the entire time we were in St. Martin.

Crocodile Lake, Boundary Waters, Minnesota

The first background image was taken on a trip to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northern Minnesota in the fall of 2010.  As we’ve lived in Minnesota most of our lives, we figured it was a good way to start this blog.