My Minnesota

I don’t really believe this happened just because I’m currently reading Finding the Mother Tree . On the other hand, I’m not foolhardy enoug...

I have a loaf of sourdough in the oven. The dough was much tackier (sticky) than I anticipated. Once I had shaped the boule and put it in th...

I think I've read Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It at least a couple of times and watched the movie once or twice. An all-...

Thanks to the Better Half [BH], this morning we enjoyed the year's first confirmed sighting of a red-winged blackbird. BH had motored of...

Do you remember the lyrics from the song in Fiddler on the Roof , especially the refrain? Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly...

It's been a tough Winter. Meteorologically, it ended with February. We've been going through lots of sunflower seeds and suet, but w...

Yesterday the Daughter Person and the Son-In-Law closed on their first house. We're spending today helping them move into their new home...

Sometime within the past few days, the Aldo Leopold Foundation < @aldoLeopoldFdn > shared this Tweet : " Noticed Baltimore orio...

This year is the 50th Anniversary of the establishment of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act and the designation of the Namekagon and St. Croix...

For some creatures, such as whitetail deer, Spring is a time of birth. Others, like wild turkeys, are more in line with where a young man...

It was nearly  one year ago that we noticed the swan pictured on Bone Lake. We never did learn how that tale ended. Trumpeter swan stra...

chickadee blown from feeder Photo by J. Harrington The seeds on the ground are covered with a crusted layer of snow. Chickadees fran...

We're back home in the South end of the North Country. The snow showers stopped a little South of Cloquet but the clouds continued to pr...

The trees in our neighborhood are about 75% or 80% bare of leaves, enough so that the mylar aluminized balloon that appeared late last Sprin...

There's no way, since they aren't wearing obvious identifiers, to be sure the egrets we saw today are the same ones seen a week or s...

Morning: dark, clear, skies nicely set off the waning crescent moon. The smart phone camera took some of the most undistinguished photos ima...

Between dawn and sunrise, what light there is often has a magical quality. This morning it caused to whitetail doe walking across the rise i...