Gooseberry Falls and Two Harbors, Minnesota

Gooseberry Falls State Park - the park gets its name from...
Gooseberry #1 - ...the Gooseberry plant...
Middle Gooseberry Falls - ...and three sets of waterfalls...here the Middle Falls
Dandelion - usually considered a weed, the Dandelion is a beautiful plant if one takes the time to look at it
Bluebell #2 - the flowers do look like tiny bells
Bunchberry #1 - a typical forest edge plant
Buttercup #2 - it is easy to see where this flower got its name
Wild Dogwood #2 - a wild Dogwood with small bunches of flowers, rather than the showy flowers of typical ornamental Dogwoods
Wild Rose #3 - an aggressive plant, here held in check by the other natural plants growing around it
Wild Strawberry #2 - the "mother" of our domestic Strawberry plants
Interrupted Fern #1 - the "Interrupted Fern" gets its name because the sexual organs (brown areas) occur in the middle of the "stem" rather than on the "leaves", giving it an "interrupted" look
Lady Fern #2 - a more typical fern of the forest floor...comments on the ID are welcome
"Yellowstone" Train Engine - designed to haul heavy loads of ore, the engine gets its name from the Yellowstone River area, where it was first deployed...this one was used to haul iron ore in northeastern Minnesota
"Yellowstone" Train Engine - my friend, Fred, is almost 6 feet tall, so you can see what a massive train engine this is