My Minnesota

Yesterday’s full moon, which was completely cloud covered around here, is called the Strawberry Moon by the Ojibwe and the Good Berries Moon...

Other years I’d be looking forward to melting snow starting to expose the ground. This year I’m concerned that cold spells and blizzards may...

The Minnesota Weatherguide notes that tonight’s full moon is the ricing moon (Ojibwe) or the harvest moon (Lakota). At month’s end, we’ll ha...

 Until recently, I was unaware that May is  American Wetlands Month . As a waterfowler, wetlands are one of my favorite places. Ducks, geese...

Monday is Martin Luther King Day. It’s also January’s full moon, known as the Great Spirit Moon by the Ojibwe and the Hard Times Moon by the...

This morning I drove past the Sunrise River pools along county road 36. It looked very much like they were covered with skim ice. In fact, t...

If not this week, the syruping season will be upon us soon. Those who inhabited this land before us continue to have rights to harvest maple...

Tomorrow night brings a full moon. Our Minnesota Weatherguide tells us that the Ojibwe call it the Great Spirits moon and the Lakota the ...

September's full moon occurred this morning at 12:22 am locally, when I was sound asleep. We are now in the waxing gibbous phase of the ...

This Spring just past, in a field North of the house, on the East side of the road, in the West side of the field, the Better Half [BH] and ...

Today is the last Sunday in June 2020. July begins in a few days. Look for the [ Ojibwe ] full moon [Miin-giizis (Berry Moon)] next weekend ...

If I had started practicing my fly casting back in April, today would have been a great day for practicing casting into the wind. I hadn...

It is too hot (~92℉ right now) for yard chores and too windy (S ~20 mph) to be standing in a cool trout stream casting a fly. So, since lots...

I grew up in Boston, MA, aka,  Beantown . Brown bread, hot dogs, and  Boston baked beans  were a frequent, Saturday night dinner (supper) st...

Tomorrow the moon will be full. The Ojibwe call it Manidoo-Giizisoons (Little Spirit Moon). Tomorrow is also my sister's birthday. In fa...

I'm thankful today that I don't have a job that requires me to be outside in this record-setting, or at least record-tying, cold. Wa...