My Minnesota

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

Melting snow, still frozen ground, other than the top inch or two, brings puddles and mud to the driveway where it intersects the road. I’m ...

Based on firsthand experience this morning, I can attest that township gravel roads have become very muddy. I even saw melt water flowing in...

Some time this month, this year probably in the second half, we will see a reduction in winter’s white and return of colors to the landscape...

This month I’m looking forward to: the gradual disappearance of snow and ice cover from local fields and streams (and driveways) the appeara...

 April is a month of: rain; and snow; and blue skies; and cold; and warm;and mud; and thaw; and runoff; and open waters; and migration; and ...

This week we still have a chance of snow showers on Thursday. That tells me we’re in a transition from third winter to mud season. Mid-week ...

Last night the Better Half noticed a chorus of peepers and wood frogs. After she told me about it, I stepped onto the deck and heard Spring...

Yesterday there was a large puddle in the driveway. Today, the puddle and 99% of the snow and ice covering the drive are gone. We surmise th...

The local snowmobile trails along the roads and in the ditches are showing more and longer patches of mud. Is their season coming to an end ...

a gravel road early in mud season Photo by J. Harrington One week from today is March 1, the first day of meteorological Spring. Tod...

No one that we've come across ever claimed that the arrival of Spring in the North Country was neat and tidy. This is the week we enter ...

Sometimes, during a January thaw, we get a little melting on our township gravel road. Yesterday, and again today, and probably for at least...

Happy Valentine's Day! Photo by J. Harrington The sun is shining. Temperatures have climbed enough to warm even our black Irish ...

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. It's also Ash Wednesday. The last time that happened was in 1945. The two dates also overlapped in 1923...