My Minnesota

 Leaf buds are burst. Leaf out has begun. The creeping Charlie in front of the house  has pretty little blue flowers. The lily of the valley...

Hot and humid, that’s summer weather where I come from and that’s what we’ve had yesterday and today. More thunderstorms are forecast for th...

As I hope you know already, April is National Poetry Month . If you’re a repeated reader of this blog, you may have noted that I’m a trout f...

Yesterday, beneath a gray, cloud-covered sky, we witnessed a flock of five swans flying toward something, somewhere. The silhouettes of whit...

We spent part of the morning watching and listening to the introduction to this year’s Leopold Week . My favorite part was Kim  Blaeser read...

 I recently watched a presentation by a fisheries biologist regarding the fishing pressures and fish stock structure of a nearby trout strea...

Next weekend is Labor Day, the official start of meteorological autumn and the unofficial end of summer vacation season. Our bur oak has alr...

Tonight is a full moon. The Ojibwe call it Berry Moon; the Lakota, Harvest. Tomorrow night is the Perseids Meteor Shower. Unfortunately, the...

Six months ago it was mid-January and I was complaining about snow and cold. These days I’m complaining about heat, humidity, deer flies and...

 We’re starting the last full week of May. The outside temperature is 15℉ to 20℉ bellow what’s been traditionally normal for this time of ye...

 Today I want to share some background on why I was so disappointed by the Star Tribune’s coverage of the 2022 Minnesota Governor’s Fishing ...

 Several writers in the Star Tribune have recently managed to get their underwear in a bunch over this year’s Minnesota Governor’s Fishing O...

Yes, we mixed our metaphors. Nevertheless, today’s posting is short but, perhaps, not so sweet. A quick search of the internet reveals that ...

A Driftless Area stream Photo by J. Harrington A week from Friday, on March 18, the Great Waters Fly Fishing Expo opens at 1:00 pm in St...

Shortly before we began writing this post, the outside temperature was a little more than 20℉ and the windchill made it feel like 13℉, even ...

Today is Native American Heritage Day . In lieu of a normal posting, we ask that you follow the link below and read Sara Sinclair's enti...