My Minnesota

I was distressed that the city’s ditch mower had knocked out every milkweed plant growing between our driveway and the field entrance on our...

The first dragonfly of the year appeared in front of the Jeep’s windshield and flew over the roof yesterday. Since we’re half-way plus throu...

The sky has been spitting graupel  off and on all day. The windchill is around 27℉. We just spent about an hour wandering around the propert...

Today is day fourteen of the 10 to 14 day germination period listed for the bergamot seeds we planted in two seed trays. There are minuscule...

Snow is melting. Cloudy skies have some thin spots and patches of blue even. It’s almost Easter weekend. There are enough good things happen...

It is the season of drowning bees, when many wasps and hornets and bees gather at the sugar water feeders. Some get greedy and force their w...

Several times we’ve posted about respecting and following the recommendations for “No Mow May.” We were, therefore, more than a little annoy...

It’s the time of year when  Agastache foeniculum (Anise Hyssop, Blue Giant Hyssop) comes into its own in our neighborhood. It’s difficult t...

Pardon me for playing with part of a basic manifesto for the tv series The X-Files, but it seems to fit really well with today’s celebration...

This year there seem to be more bees and/or hornets and/or wasps at the nectar feeder than I remember from years past. Yesterday, I saw what...

The property has several clusters of hoary puccoon in bloom. Dandelions are more seed heads than blossoms. Today’s weather is as close to p...

Back in the days when I had a boat, this was one of three weekends I traditionally stayed off the water. The other two were July Fourth and ...

Most local fields are planted or ready for it. Several have corn emergent already, about an inch or so high, just enough to define the rows....

 In anticipation of the upcoming end of No Mow May, and because the Son-In-Law asked to borrow the tractor, we mounted the mower deck today....

We’ve spent much of the past several months commenting on our unseasonably cool, wet, weather.  Here’s proof that we knew what we were talki...

Yesterday we mentioned trilliums and lilacs. This morning we were pleasantly surprised to discover trilliums we hadn’t previously noticed gr...