Business did bring me back to the United States yet another time – now to Rochester, Minnesota (and not New York, as the locals tend to stress) …

During the week the focus is on working with long days in the office, so the weekend is a nice chance to get out into the crisp fall air, and into nature to finally get some sunshine.

With a colleague I made the way from downtown to the Quarry Hill Park, a 3.5 km walk (one-way) to the Nature Center (with plenty of educational displays of local wild- and plant life; from here we used some of the parks trails to see the different habitats in the park (evidence below) … fall certainly is here … it will be winter soon.