My Minnesota

The Better Half wanted to show me a turtle she noticed in the driveway yesterday. By the time she got the dogs back into the house and her s...

We (the family and I) enjoyed a wonderful Father’s Day yesterday. The Daughter Person wrote a great poem for me about me and her perspective...

We got lots of lightning and thunder and rain last night, but no hail nor tornadoes. As the storm(s) were moving east, the sunset sky took o...

According to a couple of sources, we may, or may not, get an isolated thunderstorm this afternoon. As I thought about it, if the forecast sa...

Hot and humid, that’s summer weather where I come from and that’s what we’ve had yesterday and today. More thunderstorms are forecast for th...

have severe storms become perpetual? Photo by J. Harrington It appears a large hatch of dragonflies is starting to feed on a disgustingly...

We dodged several bullets yesterday, almost literally. There were thunderstorms all around us and we were caught, briefly, in a torrential d...

In commemoration of the 47th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Minnesota’s Split Rock Light House will be holding a Memor...

It’s been dry enough that the local flock of five or so hen turkeys are now pecking their way through the “wet spot” in our back yard. Few t...

We’ve seen almost no frogs and very few toads this year. I’m not sure if it’s because they aren’t around or we’re not looking at the right t...

For the record, as of today, I’m looking forward to Autumn. Fortunately for folks like me, temperatures appear to be on a gradual downward s...

Back in the days when I had a boat, this was one of three weekends I traditionally stayed off the water. The other two were July Fourth and ...

This week’s storms disrupted the harvesting, washing, packing schedule at our CSA. We’ll plan on collecting our share box tomorrow. Tonight ...

On this, the 46th anniversary of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, we offer for your consideration The National Weather Service’ story ...

If rainfall can be sparse, that's what's falling as this is written. We have scattered showers with scattered raindrops for the afte...

In the thrall of our heat wave, I went summer crazy at our local [big box] grocery store and came home with watermelon and peaches that were...

 This afternoon we saw what we think was a great spangled fritillary ( Speyeria cybele ) feeding on the swamp milkweed flowers. Unfortunate...

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...