My Minnesota

I tried to surrender this morning, but no one could see my white flag through the falling, blowing, and drifting snow. Since my surrender wa...

Welcome to October and Happy International Coffee Day ! Today is also the 98th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter. We wish him many h...

Joni Mitchell is one of my all-time favorite songwriter / singers. One of her top hits is a song called Big Yellow Taxi . The refrain's ...

This has been the kind of morning we tuck away to bring out come the second or third blizzard in January or February. We're pleased to r...

We did get out yesterday and found open, running water, right where we had left it, in one of the small tributaries of the St. Croix River. ...

Last night, Winter Solstice, turned out to be one of the most pleasant we ever remember having during the Christmas season. Although the Bet...

Recent weather, plus that forecast for the near term, has been unseasonably warm around here. We foresee one of two options playing out. Eit...

The past few days a female (no red stripe on cheek) pileated woodpecker has arrived about midday at the suet feeder on the deck. With the co...

Next weekend is Labor Day, the unofficial end of Summer. It's also September 1st, the official start of meteorological Autumn. The golde...

The folks at the Winter Community Supported Agriculture farm couldn't get their truck started this morning. We had driven to the drop of...

The Better Half and I headed to St. Paul today. We were past due for a visit to Nina's Cafe, plus, Sixth Chamber books was holding for m...

We had to go into "The Cities" this morning on some financial business. The temperature was somewhere between mid-50's and low...

Fog greeted us this morning. Fog so thick you could cast a fly to trout rising at the bluff tops. It stayed with us almost up to Winona. We ...

This Summer there has been an eruption of wildflowers along road sides and in fallow fields. Butterfly weed, horsemint and wild bergamot hav...

It's a quiet, rainy Sunday afternoon here on April 30, the last day of April and the end, for this year, of National Poetry Month. Th...

fallen leaves, Coffee Talk patio Photo by J. Harrington Do you realize this is the last weekend of this year's meteorological Su...