My Minnesota

According to a couple of sources, we may, or may not, get an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. As I thought about it, if the forecast sa...

Now that yesterday’s invasion of British Columbia smoke has passed through, the Better Half is planting annuals in the planters next to the ...

There’s quite a few bur oak acorns on the ground under the tree at the end of our drive. So far there’s not much sign that anyone’s been fee...

Somewhat belatedly, it occurs to me that, if I reorganize my schedule so that I do the play (as a reward) first, I’ll be much less likely to...

Today’s posting will be short, I’ve been busy with other things, and maybe not entirely sweet, I’m annoyed at members of the environmental c...

We learned something new this morning. Perhaps you already know about the air quality images of the Boundary Waters available online. We di...

We live where there are lots of what look like "family farms," in a county that's part of a 2 state, 21 county Combined (Stand...

No Northern Lights were visible last night through the overcast. The cloud cover has been scattering light to heavy showers much of the day....

Sometime within the past week or so we mentioned that we're (re)considering managing the buckthorn growing on our property using goats t...

Today's will be a very short posting. We're tired. This morning we basically finished removing buckthorn from all but a small, clump...

Yesterday, before we thought we noticed snowflakes, we though we saw a rose-breasted grosbeak at the feeder, Today, the grosbeak sighting wa...

One of the male goldfinches perched, moments ago, on the niger thistle feeder, his feathers clearly molting into brighter chrome yellow colo...

Minnesota has several wildflowers of the Gentiana family. The Minnesota Wildflowers web site lists five Gentiana and three other "Gent...

We will soon be back to pulling more buckthorn. To minimize it's recurrence, we'd like to have native plants growing where the buckt...