My Minnesota

In one of the wetlands near our home there is a recent outburst of yellow flowers the likes of which I don’t recall ever seeing. The Better ...

Monday is Martin Luther King Day. It’s also January’s full moon, known as the Great Spirit Moon by the Ojibwe and the Hard Times Moon by the...

There’s less than a week remaining until the December moon is full (December 18). It occurs a few days ahead of the winter solstice and a we...

There's an abode in the neighborhood that would be described as, at best, a "fixer-upper." A new neighbor has moved in sometim...

Earlier today I managed to once again confuse myself about whether the understory plants I was pulling were actually buckthorn or some speci...

One of the differences between nature and people is that nature lets actions speak for themselves and people spend lots of time and energy n...

When I worked in Minneapolis, on occasion I'd see huge flocks of crows heading toward or coming from a roost, so I knew from personal ex...

I know, I promised to post this yesterday but was still getting comfortable with the name. Plus, today is the first day of meteorological Wi...

We post about dancing with systems and Donella Meadows and Peter Senge and related matters from time to time. In an effort to practice what ...

2019 has been proclaimed the Year of Indigenous Languages by the United Nations. The St. Croix River watershed, where we live, is home to b...

The unidentified bush on the roadside south of our property started blossoming sometime in the last 24 hours. It hadn't yet started yest...

What to do on a Minnesota March day: dreary, dank, depressing? Remember that Easter comes early this year; that the March solstice is little...

In various locations and mixtures on our property we have both big and little bluestem grasses. Little bluestem predominates. We also have a...

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone                        Big Yellow Taxi ...