Photos: Opening day at the 2012 Minnesota State Fair

Gunner Liebl, clipping a lamb
Gunner Liebl, 5, assists his mother Andrea Spray with some clipping of their Registered Columbian ewe lamb on the opening day of the Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights, Minn. Thursday, Aug. 23, 2012. The family, from Milan, Minn., were preparing the ewe to show Friday.
MPR Photo/Jeffrey Thompson

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