My Minnesota

It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...

Yesterday and today, the dogs and I walked up to the pond North of the house. It’s a longer walk than we usually take at this time of year b...

For the next eight days or so, local style guides call for fluorescent orange or pink outerwear. Through November 12 it’s deer firearms seas...

As I’ve pondered my experiences in New England and Minnesota, trying to get a handle on why my affections for the former are so much stronge...

Using a “best guesstimate” approach and the data from the CoCoRaHS web site , we got about .2 inches (two tenths of an inch) of rain late ye...

For all the times we’ve seen wild turkeys around the place, and the few times we’ve heard toms gobbling, this morning is the first time I ca...

I’ve noticed lots of comments (complaints) on social media about how bad the mosquitos are this year. Local, and, I think, national, news ha...

Czeslaw Milosz is a Nobel Laureate in Literature (1980). I’m rereading one of his works, Road-side Dog , and quite enjoying it. Some weeks a...

 Today is opening day of Minnesota’s wild turkey season No, not the turkeys in the state capitol, their season begins back in January or Feb...

As you know, we’re rapidly approaching T urkey day. I’ve hunted wild turkey quite a few times, always in the spring. Autumn was reserved for...

In commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Minnesota’s Split Rock Light House will be holding a Memor...

Firearms deer season opens tomorrow in our neck of the woods and continues through November 13. There will be scattered patches of florescen...

Summer’s gone. By week’s end, September will join the past and October will hold the near future. Tomorrow is World Rivers Day and this morn...

 I grew up reading Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Sports Afield, and similar magazines. Some of my all-time favorite writing and writers ...

 This month is SiSi’s birthday with us. She’s been living in her “forever” home for nine years this month. I have a Labrador retriever cross...

This morning’s fog was lacking the smell of salt air and the haunting of horns, but it came close to bringing me back to Cape Cod Bay. It al...

Today is National Public Lands Day . It’s also National Hunting and Fishing Day . We were pleased to see that the White House Proclamation [...