My Minnesota

While driving to the Granddaughter’s this morning, so we could read some books, I saw something at the roadside in the Carlos Avery Wildlife...

Today, briefly, we enjoyed some blue skies and a little bit of sunshine. It made an amazing improvement in our general outlook on life. In c...

We learned something new this morning. Perhaps you already know about the air quality images of the Boundary Waters available online. We di...

With less than a week to go until Summer solstice, it's time to take a look at what once was thought to be "normal" for that ...

I'm guessing it will be a couple of weeks (midish-June) before we see flowers, but the beardtongue ( Penstemon grandiflorus ) is growing...

Monday will be the Feast of the Ephipany , the celebration of the arrival of the three wise men to visit the infant Jesus and the end of the...

If one is to judge based on historic reports, once a water body has been sufficiently polluted for long enough, the Minnesota Pollution Cont...

Earlier this week we had a morning or two of clear, sunny skies following cold nights. Frost didn't show up well (at all) on the "p...

Goldfinches, in Winter (non-breeding) colors are coming to the feeders. Is that a sign of Spring ? Probably not, although it is now only 57 ...

We spent much of the day in and around Ely. Since we neglected to pack the cables that let us download photos from any of our cameras to our...

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone                        Big Yellow Taxi ...

Exactly one year ago there was still snow cover in the nearby woods. Not this year. last year's late Winter woods Photo by J. Harr...

Once again the Better Half and I spent a few days incommunicado in a cabin off the Gunflint Trail, no cell phone service, no WiFi, no TV, ju...

cabin-side creek Photo by J. Harrington We're back from the North Woods, where we spent several days in an old (built 1930's...