Spring Blooms Along Rt-55 Some 84 Miles Northwest Of Minneapolis, MN.

…"But once we caught on, of course, nothing could keep us off these roads, weekends, evenings, vacations. We have become real secondary-road motorcycle buffs and found there are things you learn as you go. .. We have learned how to spot the good ones on a map, for example. If the line wiggles, that’s good. That means hills. If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that’s bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker.”

2Mi West of Eden Valley, MN. Flowers along the route are often mentioned in ZMM, especially in the mountains of Montana. For this reason I started the practice of stopping where-ever I encountered flowers.
…Thus I stopped here to photograph these red clovers, yellow flowers, and white daises. As I knelt to focus my camera, the pungent odor of wet, old, mowed hay rose from around the roots of these spring blooms.
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