My Minnesota

Bird feeders are back up. Birds are temporarily boycotting because we had the feeders down for a couple of days to discourage the peregrine ...

I just read a scary story in the LA Times:  Is Donald Trump a new King David? Ask California’s right-wing Sons of Liberty  The fact that a n...

Today’s posting will be very short and not so sweet. It’s been triggered by my listening to some folk songs from back when, especiallly one ...

Today is Native American Heritage Day . November is Native American Heritage Month . In Minnesota, Native American Heritage is acknowledged ...

A week from tomorrow is July 4. Where I come from [Boston, MA], that’s deep into Summer. June is wending along the same path as Spring, into...

Here’s a report on the Treat:      I went off to get some errands done today. As I drove past the Sunrise River pools in Carlos Avery Wildli...

Three books have had a disproportionate influence on me in both my professional and my personal life. They are Ian McHarg’s Design with Natu...

The Better Half reports hearing chickadees' spring songs today. That's a hopeful sign. Tomorrow, and a number of days thereafter, th...

Red, in different shades, is the color for Valentine’s Day. That means on or before the fourteenth of this month we’ll start looking at the ...

The local precinct caucus is February 1. According to the Chisago-Isanti DFL web site: DUE TO REDISTRICTING, WE STILL WILL NOT KNOW WHAT U.S...

Yesterday was winter solstice, the shortest day and longest night of the year. According to my copy of the Minnesota Weatherguide Engagement...

I’m not denigrating the size, seriousness nor complexity of the issues we face locally, nationally nor globally, but among the current crop ...

It’s been a strange twenty-four hours. Yesterday, as the downpour was ending, the power went out. Xcel had it restored about 4 p.m. Our phon...

Tomorrow is Memorial Day, "a  federal holiday in the United States  for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died in t...