My Minnesota

Purple loosestrife and wild cucumber are blooming conspicuously around damp and wet areas. Sandhill crane colts have reached nearly full g...

It's Memorial Day Weekend. The remembrance boards for my father and father-in-law are hung. Today is also Bob Dylan's 85th birthday....

This Friday morning past, the wind was finally calm after a hard frost night. I watched the maple trees in front of the house drop leaves li...

The field behind the house is full of Spotted Horsemint , with scatterings of black-eyed Susans and a few compass plants. Purple Lovegrass ...

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

No matter how inane our politics get, it's hard to be grumpy when faced with an abundance of wildflowers along roads and in summer field...

The good news is I wasn’t in the midst of yard chores, or standing in a river waving a stick, when the down pour let loose. A few rumbles of...

Today had been forecast to be cooler and wetter, so we made up some sourdough to bake. Today has turned out to be partly cloudy and quite wa...

We (the family and I) enjoyed a wonderful Father’s Day yesterday. The Daughter Person wrote a great poem for me about me and her perspective...

If I spend too much time staring at the treetops tossing in the tumults of wind, I could develop a case of motion sickness. A windy, gusty M...

Record or near record warmth today and over the weekend, tempered by howling, gusty winds!!: is March coming in like a lamb or a lion? In ei...

As I drove along County Road 36 this morning, through the Carlos Avery pools, there they were, about a dozen of so Canada geese, floating on...

When the Daughter Person was in college, the Better Half and I would stop on occasion at a coffee shop know as the Ginko. It’s been quite a ...

Today’s posting will be very short and not so sweet. It’s been triggered by my listening to some folk songs from back when, especiallly one ...

If this year is like most years, we’ll realize at some point we’re short a present for some certain someone or other, but for now, after cro...

To show how old, and old fashioned, I am, today we received four CDs of Christmas music I ordered a week or so ago. As I’m typing this, the ...

this morning’s view from the deck Photo by J. Harrington Yesterday the deciduous trees were mostly bare branches. No so this morning! We ...

The Christmas tree stayed upright overnight in its jury-rigged, slightly oversized, stand. A little while ago, a single string of lightweigh...

Here in Minnesota, today is “Give to the Max Day.” My email inbox and our snail mail box have been getting loaded with notices about how muc...