My Minnesota

Much of the local field corn is now harvested. Many of the local trees are bare of leaves, except for the oaks which  will be shedding leave...

Last week we noticed many hay fields had had their first cutting. Several corn fields were showing emergence plus a few of inches of growth....

Tonight is the longest night of the year. Soon the days will begin to lengthen as the sun returns to our northern skies, followed, many week...

Today it's time to say good-bye to November, since tomorrow we welcome the arrival of December. Signs of Thanksgiving past arrive later ...

Winter is approaching, a time for slowing down and storytelling. For some of us that also means more reading, although I suspect the Better ...

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...

Even though Minnesota has an early season for teal and geese, I don't (won't) hunt waterfowl when the temperature's in the 70...

Last Spring, about the time our pear tree was in bloom, I finally stumbled onto a local source of serviceberry bushes, of a species noted fo...

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

Effective tomorrow, our days will be 20 minutes shorter than they were on the Solstice and daylight will continue to shrink until we reach a...

Summer's midpoint is about a month away, on August 7, unless, like many of the Celts, we recognize only two seasons, in which case Summe...

Neighborhood day lilies have started to bloom. That means it’s time to watch (out) for fawns, goslings and wild turkey poults. A couple of d...

 Long, long, ago, in a country far, far, away, I seem to recall lending my young daughter my copy of Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals ....

The world is full of good, or at least better, news, but we won't find it in main stream media's "if it bleeds, it leads" ...

Yes, I'm aware of the current clashes between the American Gestapo [ICE] and local governments and/or protestors. Been there, done that ...

Yesterday was a Red Flag day and not just because it was Mother's Day! Low humidity, winds gusting into the low thirties mph, plus no p...

 Leaf buds are burst. Leaf out has begun. The creeping Charlie in front of the house  has pretty little blue flowers. The lily of the valley...

It’s the end of March; the beginning of Spring. The back yard and the driveway are covered in an inch or so of fresh snow. More storms, with...