This morning's adventure

We took a little trip to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester this morning. Pretty cool place! This was a little seating area between to waiting areas:
Scattered throughout were sculptures and other artsy stuffs. I liked this one alot:
On our way back home, I snapped random pictures of the plains of southern Minnesota. I call this one "trees":
And of course, this statue that I still cannot explain not too far from where we live:
It certainly looks a little more unusual in the winter with snow on the ground, don'tcha think?