Thank you all very much. I treasure everyone's comments so much, I just go back and reread them off and on and every time they make me smile and warm my heart.

k9soul, where are you in Minnesota? I'm near the Twin Cities. It's been rather cold lately, especially with the wind chill, so those pictures you took were great !!
Good to see another Minnesotan! I'm in the St. Cloud area, and I agree the temps and wind chills have been very cold! I got the action shots without wearing gloves because it is hard to take pics with heavy gloves on, but my fingers got too numb after a few minutes so I had to fumble at it with gloves on after that. At least it was not windy today and warmed up enough so that it didn't hurt to breathe out there Down south they are too warm and up north we are too cold, I think we all need to meet in the middle somewhere!

Thank you all again for the compliments!