My Minnesota

Leaf color is increasing in patches and splotches. (I should spend more time just sitting and watching the leaves change color.) Conifer nee...

A pair of hanging baskets with pansies, or something like, have been added to the front stoop. Their hanging height, and the ease with which...

There are three, maybe four, fresh, new dandelion blossoms along the roadside ditch in front of our property. Lots of little butter and eggs...

This morning unseasonably bitter cold brought frost, fog, hoarfrost, haze and/or low clouds. Behind and  through the mist the sun was a pure...

According to my copy of the Minnesota Weatherguide Calendar, a normal low temperature of 32℉ doesn’t occur locally until early November. How...

We're tired of writing about hoar frost / rime ice covered trees. We're fed up with comments and speculation about the events leadin...

After dutifully changing the oil and filter in the tractor this morning, we're listening to the second CD in the Joni Mitchell Archives ...

This morning the birdbath was covered with skim ice and the deck with frost. We had covered or brought into the house the plants around the ...

No sooner had January said au revoir than the sun came out this morning! That's at least a little bit of progress. Driving home from di...

Another cloudy, humid (110%?), dreary September day, the last day of the month. Tomorrow begins October. In A Sand County Almanac , Aldo Leo...

The Twin Cities National Weather Service has issued a frost advisory for much of Minnesota. For our county it runs from 1 AM to 8 AM tomorro...

At least some of the neighborhood Canada geese have produced gaggles of goslings. We're confused. The picture below, from several years ...

On our early morning return from walking SiSi, we met a strange stranger on the road. SiSi wanted to go play but the stranger didn't see...

Minneapolis and St. Paul get an average of 42% sunshine in December. Duluth gets a little less, 39%. We're between the Twin Cities and D...

Earlier this week we had a morning or two of clear, sunny skies following cold nights. Frost didn't show up well (at all) on the "p...

Last night and early this morning, local temperatures fell below freezing. Sensitive plants (that we wanted to protect) were covered or came...