In the Spring...

...a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of...baseball. The Twins just lost their home opener, but that doesn't stop me from re-evaluating my earlier decision not to keep a web log of the baseball season. You can find it here.

New Ulm Tourism

Some small towns have points of interest, but New Ulm has them all over the map. It's off topic to go through them all, but I mentioned Hermann (the German) earlier so here he is. Who knew a small town on the Minnesota prairie would have a monument worthy of a European capital? First, the plaque:

You can read about the history of the monument if you enlarge the photo.

And heeerrre's Hermann. Sorry it's just a shot of the back of the monument. It's on the top of a steep hill, facing the town and the river, and I didn't feel like trudging down to make a photo.

And now, back to Hockey