My Minnesota

'Tis a weekend of Halloween and Samhain . Whether you consider it a trick or a treat, don't forget to turn your clocks back to stand...

Tomorrow is Indigenous Peoples Day. Depending on where you are, it may, or may not, be celebrated as such. I don't think there's mai...

It's been so cold for so long even the dogs have cabin fever. They clamor to go out but as soon as we're outside in -10℉ to -20℉ tem...

Today it's time to say good-bye to November, since tomorrow we welcome the arrival of December. Signs of Thanksgiving past arrive later ...

It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...

The November section of our Minnesota Weatherguide Calendar and Almanac has a timely epigram from Linda Hogan : There is a way that nature s...

This week, Oct 5 - 11, is Banned Books Week. Please try to read at least one from the lists of thousands of books banned during the past yea...

Last Spring, about the time our pear tree was in bloom, I finally stumbled onto a local source of serviceberry bushes, of a species noted fo...

Last week we got glimpses of several different whitetail bucks growing antlers in velvet. Birds have begun to flock along telephone wires. S...

A recent spell of days with temperatures rising to the upper 80’s to low 90’s, plus sunny weather, was broken by a series of thunderstorms, ...

Yesterday was a Red Flag day and not just because it was Mother's Day! Low humidity, winds gusting into the low thirties mph, plus no p...

We’re close to mid-April this Palm Sunday. Here in the North Country, April is a time of snow showers and wild flowers. Wild turkeys begin m...

For many, tomorrow, January 6, is the feast of the Epiphany . That’s when our Christmas decorations will start to come down for another year...

Were it not for our persistently cloudy skies, about 3 am this morning we could have enjoyed seeing December's full moon, known as Littl...

In my younger days, a mixed bag might have meant returning from an afternoon’s hunt with a rabbit, a squirrel or two, and maybe a grouse or ...

Our high temperature today was in the low 50s. That’s what’s forecast for tomorrow and Tuesday, then November actually arrives. Normal highs...

Last night, for the first time in months, we had chili for dinner. It helped ease the dank and dreary weather we’ve been having and the even...