from the publishers

Welcome to this, our spring issue of Minnesota Moments. It’s still winter in Minnesota, as we all know, but it’s just so exciting to look ahead to spring that we can’t help ourselves.

Thinking spring is about as Minnesotan as you can get, even though the month of March can pack quite a wallop in the snow and cold department. Why, in years gone by there was even a tradition of
blizzards that occurred during the state basketball tournaments. That, of course, took place in the days when we still had a real, full-fledged Minnesota winter.

Nowadays, winters just don’t seem so bad. Snowfalls are much less and temperatures more moderate. Of course, if we jinx us all by writing this, we apologize in advance. But keep in mind that no matter how severe our March weather is, there is light at the end of the tunnel.

April promises spring showers and milder temperatures and all of the flowers and greenery that will follow. And, while we all can be fooled by April’s weather from time to time, we know that by May,
winter will be a distant memory.

We hope you enjoy this issue of the magazine, the beginning of our fifth year of publishing. The time has flown by and thanks to you readers, the magazine has grown in circulation. We couldn’t have done
it without you.