My Minnesota

This year, and a few preceding it, remind me of the opening of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities . It was the best of times, it was the ...

One of my all time favorite authors, Gene Hill , has a great quotation that goes “Whoever said you can't buy Happiness forgot little pup...

 We've been fussing and fuming about the recent extended snow showers. They are anomalous for this time of year. We're close to and ...

For the past week or two, I've been refilling the oriole / hummingbird nectar feeder, hanging from the deck railing, with sugar water ev...

Sorry, no hearts and flowers today. This Valentine's Day it seems particularly appropriate to share Carl Sagan's iconic Pale Blue Do...

New years come infrequently. New decades even more so. Each day, though, begins with a new morning. “ How we spend our days is,...

We've lived in our house for something like a quarter century. In that time, we've not had a single child ring the bell and say ...

Sometimes, life's coincidences are a little scary. Late last week we lost a filling in one of our molars. Today, one of the most delight...

Parts of yesterday and today have been devoted to Spring clean-up chores. We may need to research all the wonderful things tree leaves do fo...

We initially had a different theme in mind for today's posting, until we read a certain poem this morning. Would that we had read it man...

This morning was THE DAY! The chrysalis split and a monarch emerged. The butterfly took several hours as its wings formed and hardened in th...

We found a chrysalis that may, or may not, belong to one of the monarch caterpillars that disappeared last week. We'd been cleaning the ...

Now that November is firmly ensconced, we can safely trim some branches from oak trees without worrying about exposing the tree to oak wilt ...

Minnesota: 100% cloud cover The good news is we didn't travel 500 or 1,000 miles to have cloud cover obscure the eclipse. The bad n...

'Tis New Year's Eve, the sky is blue above Minnesota's cold air. We're ending the year with rare glimpses of sunshine. I...