My Minnesota

Tonight is the longest night of the year. Soon the days will begin to lengthen as the sun returns to our northern skies, followed, many week...

That’s what Druids call Summer Solstice, which occurs in our neck of the woods at 3:50 pm today. The persistent rainy days we’ve been experi...

Druids celebrate today as Alban Arthan . Joni Mitchell has written beautifully about an aspect of the solstice cycle in The Circle Game . Ma...

Some folks consider tomorrow to be midwinter because it’s halfway between the autumn and spring equinoxes. Others count it as the first day ...

There’s an old phrase I bet you’ve heard: “Keep it simple!” Off and on during the course of my life I’ve tried to follow that piece of advic...

Predawn weather this morning at 7 am included patchy ground fog and rain. Combined with darkness and no fog lines or center stripes on towns...

I bet at least once you’ve gone down a flight of stairs that had one more, or less, step than you expected. It threw you off balance for a b...

Thanks to the efforts of the Better Half and a local florist, we have a few sprigs of holly decorating the living room. I continue an intern...

The Christmas tree stayed upright overnight in its jury-rigged, slightly oversized, stand. A little while ago, a single string of lightweigh...

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Winter Solstice is three weeks from today. Druids celebrate it as Alban Arthan (The Light of Ar...

Locally, we passed the Summer Solstice several hours ago at 9:57 am CDT. Spring is officially over both astronomically and meteorologically....

In addition to our spring plantings being stressed by the drought this summer, the Better Half and I planted something that seems to have at...

By week’s end, days will no longer be getting longer, but the sun will govern and joy should prevail, because we are in the light half of th...

Tomorrow, very slowly, the days will begin to grow longer, at least for the first half of the year. Temperatures will begin to increase on a...

We know that Sunday is Christmas and, if the forecast is correct, Mother Nature is giving the North Country a Christmas present. The day aft...

It’s snowing again, still. Wednesday and Thursday we’re forecast to get another six+ inches. It all looks pretty and Christmassy, except on ...