My Minnesota

Are you familiar with Joni Mitchell's wonderful song,  The Circle Game ? It's one of my all time favorites. Despite my grumbles, I r...

Some of the local corn fields have started to tassel. Deer fly numbers have erupted. Temperatures have been above what's considered ...

I was distressed that the city’s ditch mower had knocked out every milkweed plant growing between our driveway and the field entrance on our...

I’m sitting looking west, out the picture window, at the trees behind the house. If I watch long and carefully enough, I think I may get to ...

As close as I can figure out, we have four or five pairs of ruby-throated hummingbird nesting around the house, two or three behind the hous...

It looks like I’ll be hand watering the new plants on our sandy hill for awhile still. We may get a few showers tonight or tomorrow but then...

Here in the North Country, we have definitely left Spring behind and entered Summer mode. Temperatures over 80; thunderstorms in the forecas...

We have one swamp milkweed in bloom. I just noticed it today while doing some chores. It’s just a few feet away from several clusters of eld...

It’s mid-afternoon, Saturday, August 13, here in the North Country. The temperature hasn’t yet reached 70℉. Returning from a visit with the ...

This year there seem to be more bees and/or hornets and/or wasps at the nectar feeder than I remember from years past. Yesterday, I saw what...

On this Veterans’ Day, let US proudly remember all the soldiers’ sacrifices. Let US bow our heads to honor them and thank them for everythin...

Before we even arrive at noteworthy color change in the local leaves,  purple-lovegrass (a.k.a. tumble grass) has ripened. Now, with autumn...

(Actually, we’re fudging a little. The real Ides of August were on August 13.) The past few days have brought delightful weather, gentle br...

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...

Do you remember the beginning of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring , the  Fable for Tomorrow ? There was a strange stillness. The birds, for...

If I'm correctly reading the year-to-date precipitation chart for Wild River State Park , we're about 3 or 4 inches below normal YTD...

Yesterday afternoon we drove a circuit on the local roads around a large chunk of Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area in Chisago County. W...