I’m working on other projects this week, so instead of my normal posts I’m sharing a glimpse into some of the images that make up my life as an Iron Range blogger.
When people think of the Range they might think of mines, rough-looking blue collar towns, piles of red dirt, pine trees and lakes. And the Range does have all these things. But all sides of the Iron Range are surrounded by tamarack marsh like this.
I took this on the side of Highway 7 near Kelsey in St. Louis County at sunrise. I grew up just a few miles from here in the same Sax/Zim peat bog. Stark, wet, wide and foreboding, it’s this vast marsh around the Range that really gives the area its sense of independence and isolation. And it’s a special kind of people who live in the marsh itself.
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