My Minnesota

On this Easter Sunday, I take a measure of hope from the blossoms on the forsythia bush behind the house, from the songs of the birds, the f...

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...

A dozen years ago, the back yard pear tree was in bloom on Tax Day. Not this year. Plus, last year the blossoms were more abundant than the ...

It feels good to have sun shining, green leaves emerging from the ground, Scilla blossoms opening -- as if Spring is here to stay for awhil...

Wind is mostly calm. Sky is mostly blue. Sun is mostly shining. Many birds are chirping. Many buds are swelling. Many faces smiling. Spring ...

The Irish soda bread has been baked, and partially consumed. Corned beef and cabbage are on the back burners of the stove. I’m wearing a dar...

Some of the local fields are still being prepared for planting. Others have corn emerging already. Most of the trees have attained full leaf...

“I can name that bloom in one petal.” Today meets almost anyone’s idea of a beautiful spring day. Dandelions are in flower all over yards an...

This morning, returning from a reading session with the Granddaughter Person,  I was slowly cruising a gravel road when a whitetail doe and ...

 Our local goats beard  plants have gone to seed. The seed heads look like oversized dandelion plumes. Another sign that summer is on the cu...

The property has several clusters of hoary puccoon in bloom. Dandelions are more seed heads than blossoms. Today’s weather is as close to p...

Yesterday we mentioned trilliums and lilacs. This morning we were pleasantly surprised to discover trilliums we hadn’t previously noticed gr...

 For the past several days, we’ve enjoyed the roadside beauty of wild plum bushes/trees in blossom. It’s one of our favorite events, along ...

No, not the video app but the arachnids that are out in very small sizes and relatively large numbers so far this year. Already today I’ve ...

An observation from this morning’s trip to collect our CSA share this week: the ridgeline trees near the St. Croix river have a softer outli...

This morning bright sunshine sparkled and glittered in the ice-covered tree branches. It looked quite magical. This being the month of St. P...

Mid-October+, high temperatures in the low 70’s, and fresh blossoms where we’ve seen none all growing season! Welcome to Minnesota’s autumn ...

Yesterday we noticed three separate, new, dandelion blossoms next to the roadway. It seemed late in the season for that but then we also saw...

We now have about 25 minutes less daylight than we did back at Summer Solstice. Our daylight is now decreasing at 2 minutes or so a day. Per...