My Minnesota

April is the month of poetry of snow melt of snow fall of the return of ducks, geese, swans, and of herons and cranes, and of red-win...

Today is Palm Sunday and next Sunday is Easter, for those who celebrate. Yesterday was the third (inter)national  No Kings protest. (The Be...

We’re close to mid-April this Palm Sunday. Here in the North Country, April is a time of snow showers and wild flowers. Wild turkeys begin m...

We hope you had a warm Valentine’s Day full of hugs, kisses and loves. Ours did and added too much candy to be good for us since we were jus...

When Mother Nature tries to squeeze a winter’s worth of weather into one week, some folks feel claustrophobic after the first few days of th...

Roadside ditches are full of flowing waters. Low areas in farm fields have become ephemeral ponds. Floodplain wetlands and marshes are flood...

Each year I’m surprised by how long it takes snow to melt once temperatures start to creep above freezing. This year is no different. I don’...

Today is the last day of our 36th year of marriage, Tomorrow, we celebrate our 37th anniversary. I suspect it will be a quiet celebration. W...

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

Roadside grass blades emerge and grow taller. American goldfinch males are turning breeding season colors. Day lily leaves extend several in...

Earlier today I came across a nice, albeit limited [7 words], Glossary of River Words , put together by Merriam-Webster. I know from my own ...

In my younger days, decades ago, I sometimes drove to Idaho in the Summer. At the time I had in-laws who Summered in Rexburg, ID. It took so...

We get our first Spring Greens CSA share in about a month (May 1). We'll be splitting the contents with the Daughter Person and Son-In-L...

Slowly, ever so, entirely too, slowly, ice cover on the Sunrise River is diminishing. Puddles or stretches of open water are appearing along...

I was feeling bad about the condition of our ice-skating-rink driveway until this morning, when I drove down our local road onto the similar...

Today we [the Better Half and I] took an exploratory, reconnoitering trip to take a peek at some waters we hope to fish next year. In the pr...

Many, many years ago, we first moved into our house in early December. It wasn't until the following Spring that we discovered we had a ...

It's the time of year when we used to see lots of Canada geese along and about the road edge going through the Sunrise River pools in th...