My Minnesota

For reasons I don’t understand, the photos I took of dragonflies are clustered around May and June and again in late July, August and Septem...

For a holiday weekend that represents the unofficial beginning of summer, we're “enjoying” another gray, showery, cloudy, dreary day. At...

We're in the last week of the seasonal crossover. On Saturday next, both the meteorological and the astronomical autumns will be in alig...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau Well, thanks to the Daughter ...

My mother, sisters, and I were fortunate. Her husband, our father, returned alive from his service in WWII and, some years later, the Korean...

Here in the North Country, we have definitely left Spring behind and entered Summer mode. Temperatures over 80; thunderstorms in the forecas...

As noted numerous times in prior postings, we live on the eastern edge of the Anoka Sand Plain. This morning plants that survive on our sand...

Not birds this time, childhood, poetry and folk music are today’s themes. poetry and music, cornerstones Photo by J. Harrington This morn...

The Christmas tree has been denuded. Brittle, pointy, holly clusters are in the trash. Memories of younger days before empty nester time are...

The tree has been cut, shortened to fit the house, and is likely to get decorated over the weekend. Tomorrow the Better Half will bake her f...

Two weeks from today is the 2022 Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere). Locally at 3:48 pm. Days will start to get longer on December 22, bu...

The dogs and I got a really good look at an almost full moon this morning. It was bright white and high in the sky when we took our early af...

Too many lives have been prematurely ended. Too many wars have been fought, some declared, many not. Our politics are again (still?) matters...

Neighborhood maple leaves are starting to turn color. Temperatures are pleasantly seasonal. More local apples are appearing at local grocery...

Fort Snelling is in Minnesota. Fort Snelling National Cemetery is adjacent to the the Historic Fort. A decade or so ago, an amateur photogra...

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, "a  federal holiday in the United States  for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died in t...