Category: All Saints in Lakeville

A thin layer of snow stubbornly hangs on beneath a row of pine trees near Onamia in central Minnesota April 21. On a sunny but unseasonably cold afternoon, two brothers shovel dirt side by side on land their family has owned for more than 100 years. Thus begins an annual spring ritual — now five decades old — of planting young pines in the grassy field, alongside the older trees they planted in previous years.