WE MINNESOTANS VALUE our snow shovels, an essential tool to clear our driveways and sidewalks of the never-ending snow.
A snow shovel at the ready at St. Luke’s Church.
When I recently photographed a snow shovel inside the entry to St. Luke’s Church, Faribault, I wondered how many times I’d snapped images that include shovels. So I searched my files and selected a few to show you.
My neighbor boy shoveling the driveway in February 2013. We start ’em shoveling young here in Minnesota.
Shoveling snow at the same house during a December 2010 blizzard.
My husband shovels the end of the sidewalk while our neighbor works toward him with the snowblower following a December 2010 blizzard that dumped 1 1/2 feet of snow on Faribault. We have two snow shovels, a scoop shovel and a snowblower to handle snow removal at our house and a neighbor’s place.
Fourth Avenue United Methodist Church in Faribault is prepared with a trio of snow shovels.
My spouse shovels snow from our backyard patio in March 2011. Most of that snow was shoveled from the house and garage roofs earlier in the season to prevent ice dams and to reduce the weight of deep snow on the roofs.
What would we do without our snow shovels?
Tell me, if you live in a snowy region, what’s in your snow removal artillery?
Copyright 2014 Audrey Kletscher Helbling
Minnesota Prairie Roots 
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