<DIV>The lake cabin. Early mornings on the sleeping porch, lunches on the dock, late-night cleanings in the fish house. But Minnesota's seasonal getaways aren't limited to its bountiful lakes: vacationers trek to hideaways in the woods, to ice shacks along the Mississippi River; even out to cottages beside the highways, relics from the days when farmers rented vacation places along cornfields and cow pastures.</div><div> </div><div>Popular photographer Doug Ohman and renowned writer and poet Bill Holm highlight the state's unique and treasured cabins—a vintage Fredenberg Lake compound near Duluth; the celebrated mom-and-pop Fairyland Cabins of Detroit Lakes; a cabin situated on top of a pontoon in Rose Lake. Holm's eclectic prose combines stories of the ancient and new and illuminates the rewards of the cabin life: “the pleasures of fishing, daydreaming, sunset watching and star counting, the leisure to take stock of one's life without the surround-sound noise of the new wired century. In a cabin retreat,” he writes, “pleasure overcomes duty for a little while.”</div><div> </div><div><B>Doug Ohman</B> is a photographer and acclaimed public speaker. His photographs are featured in the Minnesota Byways series, which includes <I>Barns of Minnesota, Churches of Minnesota, Courthouses of Minnesota, </I>and <I>Schoolhouses of Minnesota</I> (all MHS Press). <B>Bill Holm </B>is the author of several books of essays and poetry and teaches at Southwest State University in Marshall, Minnesota.</div>