My Minnesota

I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t feel to me like next week should be the 4th of July, but here we are. One week from today is Independ...

I thought any remaining snow would have been erased by recent warm temperatures and rain, and I was wrong. There are still scattered patches...

If we assume the Guardian reported this correctly, someone in a position of responsibility in the Democratic Party was/is asleep at the swit...

 From today’s US edition of The Guardian: Extreme heat summit to urge leaders to act on threat from rising temperatures ‘Everybody has a bre...

Last evening, for the first time in a long while, I saw a pair of cardinals visit the feeder on the back deck. After days of clouds and floc...

Early this morning, or very late last night, the clouds and the bare, clustered tree branches provided a faint, ghostly portrait of the moon...

The only newspaper I read regularly these days is The Guardian ’s US edition. Sometime in the past day or two, I’ve noticed a sudden increas...

It seems as though, once upon a time or so, I read that, if a society wants less of something, they should tax it. If there’s any truth to s...

Early this morning, but after the dogs’ walk, we had thunder and lightning that, over an hour or two, delivered about a quarter inch of much...

I’m not sure where this is going today. I’ve been thinking(?) about bioregionalism, habitats, ecosystems and climate change. Here’s a quote ...

We finally got lots of rain last night. The telltale puddle in the driveway was close to full this morning. Yesterday brought several severe...

Common milkweed is beginning to bloom. Black-eyed Susans have started to flower. Butterfly weed has erupted across one local hillside field....

Our Air Quality Alert is still with us. I believe it’s the same one that was initially supposed to end last night about 7 pm. Meanwhile, cum...