If Changchun’s winter is the hard-edged romance of northern China, equal parts ice and fire, then winter in Rochester, Minnesota feels more like a hidden wise person in a white coat: steady-eyed, gentle in voice, and quietly resolute.
This is the home of the world-famous Mayo Clinic. Here, the severe snow and cold of the northern United States meet the height of human medicine, giving Rochester’s winter a distinctive atmosphere: healing power growing inside the cold.
Winter in Minnesota arrives early and stays long. Rochester’s winter is truly a frozen moment in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes, the whole city covered in deep, tidy snow. Without the noise of a major metropolis, its winter scenery carries an almost sacred silence.