We've had a good Easter Sunday so far: both girls liked the stuff brought by the Easter Bunny, the girls were as cute as cute gets, and we all enjoyed the Easter service at my in-laws' church north of Moorhead.
I love going out to this church. It's quintessentially homey, everyone there is wonderful, the services are reliably interesting, my in-laws sing in the choir (not surprising, since my father-in-law was the pastor there for a zillion years), and of course - being good Lutherans - they pay a lot of attention to rolls and coffee.
The drive between North Buffalo and Moorhead is great, too. I'm much more comfortable with and accustomed to forests and hills, the sort of terrain you find in Northfield or the Upper Peninsula. The Red River Valley is the opposite: as flat as anyplace in the country. It looks especially, wonderfully different when carpeted in fresh white snow - bleak in an appealing way. A few sights:
Farmland along US-75 west of the church
The road to the church
The grain elevators in the tiny town of Kragnes (and the town's reason for being).
Kranges, Minnesota, isn't as far north or as well-populated as its namesake, Kroknes, Norway. But they grow fewer sugar beets in Finnmark, I'd wager.