My Minnesota

Technically, we, together with much of Minnesota, are no longer in or under drought conditions . Our cumulative year-to-date precipitation i...

This year’s prairie plants have been planted, a couple of dozen or so. Tomorrow it’s forecast to rain so that should help. Now I need to get...

The Better Half has, quite understandably, tired of the bare dirt and mess created by moles and voles under the bird seed feeder. This morni...

There are, according to Minnesota Wildflowers, some nineteen varieties of asters  in Minnesota. About half of those are listed as being foun...

Today the breeze is freshening, or the wind is picking up, or some of each. If I were on a trout stream I'd be timing my casts between g...

This morning, for the first time in  about 25 years, we saw a raccoon in the neighborhood. Actually, we saw 5 or 6 young raccoons at the roa...

It is the best of times. It is the worst of times. (with apologies to Dickens) This morning I think I set a record for the earliest date I s...

About this time in August, several years ago we took the photo below at the entrance to Wild River State Park. The lavender blooms are, we ...

Parts of yesterday and today have been devoted to Spring clean-up chores. We may need to research all the wonderful things tree leaves do fo...

The Jewish people began celebration of Passover at sundown yesterday. Today, Christians consider Holy Saturday and tomorrow, they celebrate ...

Today is a packing and travel day. We're headed for country near Aldo Leopold's "The Shack." Returning Sunday. "T...

Wednesday is August 1. That's two days from today. In the Celtic culture, August 1 is the festival of "Lughnasad, or Lammas , the c...

This morning we took a break from day-to-day stuff and a couple of projects we're working on and kept a promise we made to ourself last ...

A bluebird pair has been coming and going from the nest box for the past several days. Curiosity got the better of me and I snuck up and too...

Happy Pi Day ! It's also the Eve of the Ides of March, a day when, once again, South-facing, sunny slopes are mostly snow free, even tho...