My Minnesota

On this penultimate day of July 2024, the weather forecast is changing by the moment. Thunderstorms come and go in the hourly forecast witho...

We are under the second tornado watch declared within the past week. Tornado watches induce a similar level of anxiety in me that thundersto...

Technically, we, together with much of Minnesota, are no longer in or under drought conditions . Our cumulative year-to-date precipitation i...

The first dragonfly of the year appeared in front of the Jeep’s windshield and flew over the roof yesterday. Since we’re half-way plus throu...

There’s a story, and a book, about the man who planted trees. I have a copy of the Heron Dance published edition . I’m starting to wonder, i...

Today is the first day of the last week of March, 2024. The full moon (Ojibwe: Snow Crust Moon; Lakota: Snow Blindness Moon) occurred at 2:...

Hot! Humid! Thundershowers! Last week of it for this season? Let's hope so. I am looking forward to comfortably wearing my chamois shirt...

Have you read the recent article about a new invasive species that threatens Minnesota's forests? (" University of Minnesota botani...

I've seen several reports today about Michelle Obama's speech last night. Among other things, she implored us to vote for Biden / Ha...

When I started up the tractor this afternoon, a field mouse scurried out from under the engine cowling. The tractor had only been in its par...

I have encountered, or created in my own mind, a mystery today. There are two plants in the Monarda Genus that are native to Minnesota: Mo...

Earlier today I managed to once again confuse myself about whether the understory plants I was pulling were actually buckthorn or some speci...

The roadside South of the house is about to burst into bloom after bloom of bird's-foot trefoil . There are a few spiderwort plants in ...

The hoary puccoon is blooming in profusion. Pink tints are showing from the beardtongue buds that  should open soon. The poison ivy we spray...

On  a downed tree, species uncertain, along the roadside ditch, a dead branch is covered with lichen or fungus or something I've not bee...