My Minnesota

'Tis a weekend of Halloween and Samhain . Whether you consider it a trick or a treat, don't forget to turn your clocks back to stand...

Tomorrow is Indigenous Peoples Day. Depending on where you are, it may, or may not, be celebrated as such. I don't think there's mai...

Leaf color is increasing in patches and splotches. (I should spend more time just sitting and watching the leaves change color.) Conifer nee...

Today is the last day of this Minnesota legislative session. The evening weather forecast for today is full of thunderstorms. Some of us don...

Yesterday Saturday's snow melted back to bare ground. Several inches more is currently in the forecast for next weekend. Maybe the forec...

Last week we saw a very rare occurrence for Minnesota in mid-February: not one but two separate and distinct motorcycles were on the road la...

Winter is approaching, a time for slowing down and storytelling. For some of us that also means more reading, although I suspect the Better ...

This week, Oct 5 - 11, is Banned Books Week. Please try to read at least one from the lists of thousands of books banned during the past yea...

The week just ended our area "greened up." Grass that had been brown grew and greened. American goldfinch males are now mostly chr...

We got five or six inches of snow late Friday and early Saturday. The birds have been pouring in to the feeders: goldfinches, juncoes, woodp...

 It’s the middle of the last week of 2024. I’m contemplating a New Year’s Resolution to give up doom scrolling. That probably also means no ...

Today is the penultimate day of September 2024. Haven’t seen a hummingbird at the feeder all week. Wasps and/or hornets are about everywhere...

If the weather were like today’s year ‘round, I might be willing to give up four seasons. That’s how nice today is after yesterday’s downpo...

It’s finally stopped raining long enough for me to do a second grass cutting of the season in the back yard. I was also going to mow our dit...

I’m not happy with the presumed choices in presidential candidates this election, but the odds are strongly against my vote going anywhere e...

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 think I’ve finally figured out a way to spend more time appreciating, enjoying, and being grateful for what I have (instead of focusing on...

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...