My Minnesota

A couple of days ago the Better Half asked if I'd noticed the nibbling done to the pots of New England Asters on the front stoop. I hadn...

The brush pile burn in honor of Lughnasadh (Loo-nah-sa) went well yesterday evening. The scattered thunderstorms passed to our North. There ...

Last night and early this morning, the April full moon looked a lot like the (several year old) photo below. Broken cloud cover slightly dim...

While we were headed to Minneapolis this morning, a thought occurred to me that I intend to play with a little bit here over the next day or...

Gusts of Southerly wind are stripping oak branches of their remaining leaves and sending them sailing across rare, sunny, blue skies. Those ...

On this first full day of Summer, we have discovered that we have, living under our front porch, not one, but at least two baby bunnies. For...

We say the first appearance of a garter snake today. Well hidden under too many of Autumn's and Winter's perpetually falling oak lea...

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

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

We thought the hummingbirds might have departed, not for warmer, but for Southern climes. It's mid-80s headed toward 90 today. At least ...