My Minnesota

I missed my usual posting yesterday. I became entranced watching the continuous, continuing, snow falling most of the day. It became hypnoti...

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...

The weather is beautiful today, blue skies, not much wind. Nevertheless, I have no intention of clearing leaves from the driveway again, bec...

More and more acorns are dropping from the bur oaks, and being joined on the ground by ripened fruits and berries. Signs of impending autumn...

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

The mail that was storm delayed Thursday arrived late last night. This morning I opened my first package of instructions on how to be a Drui...

Depending on your perspective, “T” stands for Turkey or Thanksgiving. It’s a day many of us give thanks for our blessings. Some would argue ...

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...

We’ve spent much of the past several months commenting on our unseasonably cool, wet, weather.  Here’s proof that we knew what we were talki...

Easter this year is relatively late, but one can’t tell that by the weather. Today would be a beautiful March day and even more so if it wer...

  have we the wisdom to know our place? Photo by J. Harrington This morning I registered for an online “nature writing” course offering a...

The Christmas tree, a young white pine, is (cut) down. The tree is up (in its stand). We’re several steps closer to Christmas decorations be...

One week from today is Thanksgiving. The more we look around, the more we find for which we are grateful and in need of giving thanks. Slowl...

Branches bare of leaves are top-coated with snow. The woods look full of giant skeletons. An occasional peek of sunshine brightens an otherw...

Last night  the Better Half and I enjoyed watching (via Zoom) the US Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo, do a reading from her latest memoir, Poet War...

The oak trees leaf buds are swollen and beginning to open. No sightings so far of ruby-throated hummingbirds or Baltimore orioles. Black-cap...

T'is another cloudy, dreary, day in February. Snow showers, or flurries, does anyone know if there's an actual difference, are falli...