With all the hoarfrost, snow and ice we’ve had along the Raccoon River Valley Trail in December and January, there have been some breathtakingly beautiful scenes. Here is one near Linden the second week of January, captured in a picture by Mike Ketelsen, of Ketelsen Photography in Panora. It was first published by The News Gazette of Bayard and Bagley, and the newspaper’s publisher Luann Waldo offered it for use here on the Internet site of the RRVT.

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