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...

We  have definitely entered the darker half of the year here in the northern hemisphere. Daylight savings time ended yesterday. The results ...

As we approach yet another Independence Day, it may be wise to recall a wonderful quotation that Bill McKibben offered about 25 years ago: T...

I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t feel to me like next week should be the 4th of July, but here we are. One week from today is Independ...

June is almost gone, taking the first half of 2024 with her. My favorite season, autumn, lies ahead. I need to work harder to keep politics ...

Where we live, today is the first full day of Summer. We’re expecting rain and/or thunderstorms all afternoon, which may, or may not, be par...

I bet you know that the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights . It has an interesting and contentiou...

The other day I was fussing and fuming here about the Minnesota legislature, among other things. These recent articles ( Chaotic end leaves ...

Wishing a happy day to all the Mothers out there and those who made them such. On the way home from a visit with our son, the Jeep was repor...

The sky has been spitting graupel  off and on all day. The windchill is around 27℉. We just spent about an hour wandering around the propert...

I thought any remaining snow would have been erased by recent warm temperatures and rain, and I was wrong. There are still scattered patches...

 From today’s US edition of The Guardian: Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures ‘Everybody has a bre...

Last evening, for the first time in a long while, I saw a pair of cardinals visit the feeder on the back deck. After days of clouds and floc...

There are sayings that “There is no waste in nature” and “Nature wastes nothing.” You may have seen writings about a “circular economy.” Bas...

Early this morning, or very late last night, the clouds and the bare, clustered tree branches provided a faint, ghostly portrait of the moon...