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In our northern hemisphere, this coming Saturday, August 1,  Lughnasadh  is celebrated among the Celts and Irish Gaelic. Locally, row crop h...

Today is the last day of this Minnesota legislative session. The evening weather forecast for today is full of thunderstorms. Some of us don...

May all Mothers and families enjoy a peaceful day full of warm memories. May we all wish for many happy returns of the day. May this May avo...

Wild plum and other bushes are in flower. Some farmers have begun field preparation for this growing season. Trees are in various phases of ...

This coming Friday some of US will celebrate May Day and/or Beltane . Many of US also will do our best to participate in the May Day Strong...

Some leaf bud scales have dropped. Our day lilies are a couple of inches tall. A few flowers have appeared in the front flower bed. Hints of...

A mile or two up the road, I used to enjoy looking at a cluster of prairie smoke ( Geum triflorum ) in bloom in May or June. It's been a...

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...

Yes, thank you, I have almost recovered from the Spring cold I started coming down with last weekend. Also, once again, the snow cover has f...

Yesterday Saturday's snow melted back to bare ground. Several inches more is currently in the forecast for next weekend. Maybe the forec...

Last night, in honor of the summery weather and the turning of the month, we enjoyed slices of the first ice cream cake of the season. It hi...

The planters by the front porch have been freshly planted by the Better Half. I helped hang hanging baskets of fuchsia on which I will bump ...

A recent spell of days with temperatures rising to the upper 80’s to low 90’s, plus sunny weather, was broken by a series of thunderstorms, ...

The week just ended our area "greened up." Grass that had been brown grew and greened. American goldfinch males are now mostly chr...

On this Easter Sunday, I take a measure of hope from the blossoms on the forsythia bush behind the house, from the songs of the birds, the f...

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...

For many, tomorrow, January 6, is the feast of the Epiphany . That’s when our Christmas decorations will start to come down for another year...

I missed noting that yesterday was  Lughnasadh , the first of two harvest festivals, the second being Alban Elfed (the Autumn Equinox) . Tod...