My Minnesota

I voted on Friday, October 16; participated in the local No Kings - Vote Early rally on Saturday; and today reached the limit of letting MAG...

Leaf color is increasing in patches and splotches. (I should spend more time just sitting and watching the leaves change color.) Conifer nee...

For quite a few years now, we've planted half a dozen chrysanthemums along the northern edge of the driveway. This year, for the first t...

Despite Friday's scattered rain , we remain in severe drought . That may have started to trigger stress related color change in local tr...

Recently I've found myself wondering where's the liberal, progressive, Democrat equivalent to Project 2025. Eventually I realized Wi...

This week, Oct 5 - 11, is Banned Books Week. Please try to read at least one from the lists of thousands of books banned during the past yea...

The pointillist leaf color changer is painting our North Woods. A few leaves here, a splotch there, first sumac, now maples, against back dr...

The local leaves are just about at peak color, sliding past peak any day now as the colors drift down with the leaves. It sure is pretty aro...

Last Friday I was doing some outside chores and, as I looked up from time to time, it seemed as if I could actually see colors changing in t...

It looks like the weather may have finally turned the corner from Summer to Autumn, more than a month after the start of meteorological autu...

As of 7:43 this morning, local time, we are into full autumn, if not fully into autumn. The equinox has occurred but the season has not matu...

It's Labor Day weekend here in Minnesota. The weather is turning autumnal. Thanks to the Better Half, there's a couple of pots of as...

A few days ago we started to notice leaves had begun to change color. First were the sumac leaves in red. Plus, there were hints of color in...

While running errands this morning, we saw a sun dog. That means it was very cold and the sun was shining. Sun dogs need cold. Our dogs say ...

By the calendar, we’re close to mid-Autumn but you wouldn’t know it by the weather. Normal temperatures for this time of year are ten to fif...

Our North Country can be, and often is, a very interesting place to live. The weather forecast for the upcoming week provides a fascinating ...

In a few hours we’ll pick up our final community supported agriculture [CSA] share of the year. That fits with our progression into the dark...

Except when rain has fallen heavy and loud, it’s been a quiet, mostly peaceful day in the neighborhood. I’ve been reading more of our druidr...

Once again I find myself wondering, if leaf color kept changing every season except bare branch winter, would we still find it as attractive...

We're in the last week of the seasonal crossover. On Saturday next, both the meteorological and the astronomical autumns will be in alig...