My Minnesota

It’s been an interesting week. Today is the last Sunday of Summer, meteorologically apeaking. Meteorologists begin Falling into Autumn on Se...

Twice this past week I’ve seen a flock of four or five sandhill cranes standing on a road. A few days ago they were on our paved road, with ...

Night before last, an almost full moon, surrounded by a glowing halo, played peek-a-boo behind a thin layer of clouds. Last night [this morn...

Last night, somebody (deer? raccoons? both?) was playing with the pumpkins we left in the field behind the house. They’ve been moved quite a...

Today’s weather, so far, on top of last night’s rain showers, is a treat. Blue skies, breeze, warm not hot. sunshine... maybe thunderstorms ...

The tractor is back home. Unlike a horse, it couldn’t find its own way back to the barn. I had to go pick it up and give it a ride on the tr...

For the past few days, we’ve been seeing a small flock of wild turkey hens traveling with their assorted poults through our yard and across ...

As the dogs and I were taking their after lunch walk along the road today, we got yelled at. No, not by an irate motorist but by a pair of s...

This morning, as we drove through the Carlos Avery marshes along county road 36, we saw: three Canada geese (in the air) one swan (in the ai...

I saw a report yesterday on Twitter that, just a little south of our area, the first sandhill cranes of the season were heard. So far we’ve ...

Today is National Recycling Day . Although we sometimes think we’re wasting time, we cycled through similar seasons time and again, until we...

My favorite time of year usually starts when the local New England asters come into bloom and lasts through leaf fall on the maples. (Our lo...

Sometime during the past few days, local lakes have reached ice out; if we consider ice out to mean 80% or 90% of the lake is open water. La...

Across the township road, a pair of sandhill cranes rose trumpeting from the field as SiSi and I walked past at lunch time. Up the road a pa...

 Next week is shaping up to be verrry interesting! Sunday: Daylight Savings begins Thursday: St. Patrick’s Day All week: Spring thaw Weather...

On October 31, many Celts celebrate Samhain , an antecedent to our Halloween. In the spirit of the season, decorations honoring both feasts ...

Yesterday, early, I drove past a hen turkey and her clutch of poults. They were working their way through the roadside weeds and grasses and...