Mother Nature's Garden...

in all its glory was at it's SE MN peak color along the Mississippi River this last weekend!  Our favorite drive is from Winona north to Lake City and once again we were not disappointed.  We crossed into WI to get close and personal with the backwater area and to treat ourselves to lunch at Beth's in Nelson!  Yummy lunch, with home made chicken soup with dumplings, and we left there with a fabulous apple dumpling treat for later!  We watched lots of tired duck hunters coming out of the water.  Denny was doing a bit of reminiscing as we passed the Weaver Bottoms area.  Of course a stop at Lark Toys was also added to our agenda!  That is always a fun stop!  I had already purchased apples at an orchard at home so we bypassed the apple orchards along the way.