Leslie Holmstrom, who lives on the east side of Island Lake north of Duluth, found a patch of "beautiful" ice flowers on the lake while exploring the ice Thursday with granddaughters Laura and ...

Purple lupine now blankets the paths at Beeks Bight along the lake in Granite Bay. "I like all the water and the flowers. I'm going to call it the sea of purple," said Josylyn Glass. That sea of ...

and that means flowers of all kinds are catching our attention. There's no better example of that than the rose garden at Leif Erickson Park in Duluth. Lake Superior is known as the unsalted sea.