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Places & Moments { 37 images } Created 5 Feb 2010

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  • Warroad
  • Two F-16's mirror each other in an aerobatic move at the Grand Forks Air Force Base.
    Thunderbirds
  • Farmers and employees of the Arthur Companies Elevator near Harvey, N.D. stand around waiting for corn to unload.
    Corn
  • About 450 participants play Twister on 180 mats on Sunday night gathered in Great Hall at the Fargo Holiday Inn in hopes of making the Guinness Book of World Records for breaking the record for the largest Twister board played on measuring at 4699 square feet. The record to beat is 2453 square feet. The participants are a part of the North Dakota DECA club that focuses on improving educational and career opportunities in marketing, management and entrepreneurship.
    Twister
  • Wrigley, an eight month old cockapoo, wags it tail at Dr. Stephen Quenette, right, while Wrigley's owner, Sarah Lakoduk, left, keeps a close eye on Wrigley in the Diamond Q Animal Hospital during an office visit.
    Diamond Q Animal Hospital
  • A robin fights with the wind and snow to eat berries on a tree in downtown Fargo.
    Sign of spring
  • Hoar frost covers a tree in the hills outside of Sisseton, S.D.
    Hoar Frost
  • A deer pauses in Tuthill Park in Sioux Falls, S.D.
    Deer
  • A barn owl in rural S.D.
    Great Horned Owl
  • Minneapolis
  • Elizabeth Jacobson (left), 8, and Josephine Jones, 8, engage in a water fight to provide some relief from the heat Tuesday, July 24, 2012 along Dakota Avenue just south of downtown. Tuesday's high temperature reached 102 degrees. The normal high for July 24 in Sioux Falls is 84.
    Water fight
  • Clara, 6, and Peter Binstock, 8, have a snow fight near McKennan Park in Sioux Falls, S.D. Thursday, April 11, 2013. The area was hit with about six inches of snow overnight..(Jay Pickthorn/Argus Leader)
    Weather
  • Phill Randall carries the American flag as wranglers work to control the herd as they move toward the corral area Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 at the annual bison roundup at Custer State Park in South Dakota. The park's bison are rounded up from all corners and herded into corrals where they'll be vaccinated, branded and sorted for an auction in November.
    Bison Roundup
  • The setting sun illuminates the old barn on the property of Good Earth State Park at Blood Run on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2013 in southeast South Dakota.
    Good Earth State Park
  • Ice crystals form on a window as temperatures drop below zero Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. (Jay Pickthorn/Argus Leader)
    Ice
  • Steam rises as waterfowl swim around to keep warm in subzero temperatures at Arrowhead Park on Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013.
    Swan
  • Crazy Horse
  • High above Miner County a farmer combines wheat on a summer evening outside of Howard S.D. Picture was taken August 8, 2013.<br />
(Jay Pickthorn/Argus Leader)
    Harvest
  • Outer Banks
  • Charleston
  • Outer Banks
  • Brad Temeyer, a meteorologist and pilot, practices a touch-and-go landing in his Hot Air Balloon near Six Mile Road under the watchful eye of cattle on Wed., April 29, 2015. Temeyer launched out of McHardy Park in Brandon and landed in northeast Sioux Falls. Temeyer has been a pilot for the past nine years.
    Balloon
  • SD Badlands
  • Ft. Sisseton
  • Taylor Fisher uses tree anchors to slackline in Falls Park on Tuesday, March 10, 2015.
    Slackline
  • Concordia Church
  • Wayne Fokken is framed between flowering crabapple trees while he mows his backyard in central Sioux Falls on April 27, 2015.
    Spring
  • Brian Kirk uses a golf club to move the ball to play fetch with his dog, Sadie, off of Western Avenue in central Sioux Falls, Jan. 11, 2015.
    Sadie
  • The midway of the Sioux Empire Fair is a blur of color on Monday night at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds.
    Sioux Empire Fair
  • Omaha Zoo
  • Jera Sands helps customers at the window of the  B&G Milky Way along W. 12th Street on Friday night in Sioux Falls.
    Milky Way
  • St. Joseph Cathedral in Sioux Falls, S.D.
    St. Jospeph Cathedral
  • Williston, N.D.
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  • Falls Park
  • A Cedar Waxwing perches on a branch while it indulges in some berries off of Western Ave. and 26th Street on Tuesday, April 12, 2016. <br />
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I was out documenting the transition of spring and spotted this Cedar Waxwing eating berries. I turned up my shutter speed to catch the bird in action. After keeping very still for what seemed like forever my patience paid off.
    Cedar Waxwing