Scenes from a wintery Winona.

I decided to take a bike ride today and take some pictures of my surroundings. I got as far as just across the bridge and then headed back because my fingers and toes were numb even with the two pairs of socks and the gloves. I'm glad I headed back when I did though because we now have a pretty heavy snow coming down. That's right! Snow!

The Watkins building gate is shown below. This factory sits right in the middle of a residential area (about 5 blocks from our house I can see the idle smoke-stack from our upstairs windows). They make spices and other stuff like that. Sometimes when I'm biking to work I can smell cinnamon. There are these styilized W's at each gate. The place when you see it totally reminds you of Willie Wonka's Chocolate Factory.

This I'm assuming is Wenonah the indian for which Winona was named after. This is on the side of a local Photography store. I'm not sure how they did it but I've always meant to take a picture of it and I finally made a point of getting it.

This is the last part of the bridge going in to Wisconsin.

Below the Winona Bridge

Right across Old Miss. is Latch Island. There is a whole community of boat houses. It's like a suburb full of small floating shacks. It's sorta strange. I'll have to get some pictures of it sometime to give a better idea of it's vastness. As you can see the river isn't solid ice. The below picture is backwater and it's not even frozen.