My Minnesota

Today's windy and cloudy weather feels threatening, sort of like the regime in Washington, D.C. I've been trying to track events and...

Today’s posting is going to be short and not so sweet. Sorry! Many pundits are commenting on the problems associated with the recent SCOTUS ...

It is the season of drowning bees, when many wasps and hornets and bees gather at the sugar water feeders. Some get greedy and force their w...

I’m not denigrating the size, seriousness nor complexity of the issues we face locally, nationally nor globally, but among the current crop ...

 Smaller, shallower ponds are now ice covered. Some snow has melted, but snow and ice remain, covering much of the driveway and the fields b...

I hope this finds you and those around you healthy and virus-free. The next few months will prove to be challenging, at best. They will also...

Sorry, no hearts and flowers today. This Valentine's Day it seems particularly appropriate to share Carl Sagan's iconic Pale Blue Do...

Christmas is come and gone. We face the start of a New Year, a New Decade, and, hopefully, a New Beginning? The headlines listed below weren...

The black cherry tree behind the house has finally reached peak color. In fact, most of the trees in the neighborhood are at that stage thes...

For most of the morning, this page redirected to the global climate strike's web notice . Then, after we returned from joining several d...

Small flocks/families of sandhill cranes (adults and colts) are foraging in local fields that have been harvested of small grains, or weren...

My father, and my mother's brother, and my father-in-law, are part of The Greatest Generation. Each served in World War II (the last tim...

Summer solstice is about a month away. This year's weather has us wondering if we'll have enough dry wood for a Solstice fire, emph...

Today's post is about learning how to be, or at least behave, "better than this." For several days we've been fussing and ...