Minnesota is Green

Spring arrives. Minnesota, the land of sky blue waters, is green. It is a naturally green place, it gets enough water to keep the various trees and grasses watered and green, lush, vibrant. A lush vibrant place with wetlands and mosquitoes and soil that is ripe for growth, and willing to grow to sustain life and nurture fully functioning Minnesotans and others from around the world. Evidently there is a need to enhance this green beyond nature?

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Summer sets. Minnesota turns yellow. With sunflowers and corn and canola and black eyed susans. Some in the fields, some in the garden, some along the highway downtown. Why then does my lawn look yellow as well, for yet another summer? Like a straw matted yard, crisp and dry, as if water from the spring had never come.

Fall beckons. Minnesota turns... pumpkin? They may start out green, but by Fall they then turn orange. Then they turn dead... and brown or grey, like the squirrel that eats their innards. Red? Like Sumac, which was green, sometimes practically yellow. Maroon and Gold? Like the gopher hunting for the last kernel of... Indian corn. Is that correct (politically speaking)?

Winter comes. Minnesota turns white. White, like that scene at the beginning of Fargo, which is in North Dakota, which often turns white as well. Whitewashed like a bleached rag. Like it or not, Minnesota turns white in winter, usually, except for snirt.