Magical Kinstone

It hasn’t quite been a month since I visited my friend in Minnesota. South of where she lives, and just about across the Mississippi River from Winona, is a fascinating place called Kinstone.

Kinstone is 30-acres of peaceful beauty filled with stone sculpture, natural buildings, planted prairie, and views of the Mississippi River. It features three stone circles, dolmen, standing stones, labyrinth, thatched cordwood chapel and more. 

In 1994, Kristine Beck, the founder and creator of Kinstone, purchased the land which had been part of her family’s original dairy farm.  Kristine’s focus is on the beauty and wonder of nature. For her, Kinstone is a melding of the Earth with art to form sacred spaces that invite and inspire people to experience the life-giving power of the land to transform, energize and revive.  

I wish I would have had more time to explore the place when I stopped in that day.

I also wish that the battery on my camera hadn’t died. You’re probably going to look at these pictures and wonder, “Her battery died? But she took all these pictures.”

Well, you know me. Even when I regret something, there is always something to love. 

Read more about Kinstone by clicking this link.