If there's one image that captures our long winter, this is it: Perched on top of a giant snow pile in a mall parking lot is a lonely red Target shopping cart, looking out over the frozen landscape.
How did it get up there? Was it a prank or a performance art piece commenting on our angst over our never-ending snow and ice?
Whatever its origins, it caught the eye of Hutchinson resident Judy Coleman when she was killing some time Wednesday at the Eden Prairie Center before a chiropractor appointment.
"I've seen this huge mound of snow many times," Coleman said. But on Wednesday, something was different.
"With that shopping cart sitting on top, I had to take a picture," she said. "I couldn't believe it. It was so Minnesota."
She posted the image on a Facebook group, Quirky Minnesota Places, and it seemed to touch a winter-weary nerve, quickly garnering 7,000 likes, 4,000 shares and more than 500 comments, ranging from "only in Minnesota," to "The most Minnesotan picture... ever," to...