My Minnesota

Today is Palm Sunday and next Sunday is Easter, for those who celebrate. Yesterday was the third (inter)national  No Kings protest. (The Be...

Last week we got glimpses of several different whitetail bucks growing antlers in velvet. Birds have begun to flock along telephone wires. S...

We’re close to mid-April this Palm Sunday. Here in the North Country, April is a time of snow showers and wild flowers. Wild turkeys begin m...

It’s actually starting to seem like Spring here in the North Country. Once again the snow has melted and, come midweek next, overnight low t...

In my younger days, a mixed bag might have meant returning from an afternoon’s hunt with a rabbit, a squirrel or two, and maybe a grouse or ...

Last Friday I was doing some outside chores and, as I looked up from time to time, it seemed as if I could actually see colors changing in t...

First things first. Along the back roads to pick up this week's community supported agriculture [CSA] share, we saw a handful of deer, i...

FIRST: We WIN!     Then: we FIGHT! Of the Democrats (Senior and Junior) that have called for President Biden to step down, or aside, as a ca...

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...

You can thank my Better Half for today’s posting. This morning she sent me a gift link to a Boston Globe article about the upcoming launch, ...

I've read a couple of books by, and read a blog of Chris La Tray, mentioned below. I've read a number of works by two of Minnesota...

The roadsides have developed a rash of blue flowers that I can’t identify. I didn’t even manage to take a picture because I noticed them whi...

I wonder if those in Israel’s war cabinet , and especially Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, are familiar with and remember Shakespeare’s w...

Three years ago to the day, on April 13, 2021, the backyard forsythia was in bloom. There are even more flowers on it today than there were ...

As I hope you know already, April is National Poetry Month . If you’re a repeated reader of this blog, you may have noted that I’m a trout f...

In honor of #NationalPoetryMonth, the Better Half and I headed off to what has become a delightful and wondrous nature book store, Prairie R...

Yesterday evening we were visited by four whitetail deer in a far corner of the field behind the house. This morning the dogs and I did inde...

When Mother Nature tries to squeeze a winter’s worth of weather into one week, some folks feel claustrophobic after the first few days of th...

I admit that I don’t remember the 1964 political conventions and presidential campaigns very clearly, but a quick search on the internet giv...