Look at the natural world around you. Closer now. Can you find the letter "A" in a jumble of tree roots, the letter "I" in a cattail, the letter "O" in a bird's nest? Joe Rossi traveled the state in search of all the letters of the alphabet, photographing scenes from Granite Falls to Chippewa National Forest, from Bemidji to St. Paul. Turn these pages and see what he found: does his imagination match yours?

The plants and animals and rocks in Joe's pictures can teach us a lot about Minnesota's natural world: Did you know that Native Americans used the fluffy down from cattails to...

"Only their enigma brains cold decode each norts encrypted meaning"

This is a true story about a middle-child introvert who grew up in a culture bound family in Buffalo during the 1950s, when life was simple, prescribed and predictable; you graduated high school (hopefully), and then either got a job, got married to jump start the future clan or joined the local mob; neck and aspirations not required.

Believing himself absent the day that social skills were dispersed, Joe feels lost and invisible within his own family and longs to discover the know-how that will reveal the secrets about...