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Quick! Guess the Brightest and Darkest Times of Year in Minnesota (You’ll be Surprised)

Summer & Winter Solstices? Nope You might guess that the most brilliantly sunny time of year in Minnesota is the Summer solstice in late June, when the sun is at its highest and the days are longest (the sun actually sets at 9:03 p.m. on June 21, but dusk lingers till almost 10 p.m.). Similarly,...
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Quick! Guess the Brightest and Darkest Times of Year in Minnesota (You’ll be Surprised)

“Summer & Winter Solstices?” Nope You might guess that the most brilliantly sunny time of year in Minnesota is the Summer solstice in late June, when the sun is at its highest and the days are longest (the sun actually sets at 9:03 p.m. on June 21, but dusk lingers till almost 10 p.m.). Similarly,...
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The Too-Shiny(?) Kitchen

Let’s Hear It For a Matte Finish (or at least, semi-gloss) It’s certainly possible that the owner of this “For Sale” Golden Valley home just refinished their floors, using a little (a lot) too much polyurethane. Theory #2:  the photographer didn’t get the lighting quite right. Either way, when a real estate photo has you reaching for...
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Suddenly Scrambling for Sunglasses

Winter Respite (Sort of) Combine a seasonally VERY strong sun (equivalent to late August); a brilliant white landscape (thanks to 8″ of fresh snow Thursday/Friday); and a brilliant, cloud-free day (the first in the Twin Cities in a long while), and what do you get? A LOT of area residents scrambling to find their sunglasses....
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