My Minnesota

This morning’s low temperatures, in the mid-20’s, brought the first ice cover of the season to shallow pools and ponds. Local families of Ca...

Sunrise in our area is clearly returning toward the north. Around Christmas it rose far enough south that it didn’t get in my eyes when I wa...

As this is written, we're midway through the briefest day of the year, leading to the longest night. Local sunrise this morning occurred...

I checked in my copy of the Minnesota Weatherguide Engagement Calendar this morning. Sunrise is now about forty-five minutes later than it w...

Thanks to the Better Half [BH], this morning we enjoyed the year's first confirmed sighting of a red-winged blackbird. BH had motored of...

a gravel road early in mud season Photo by J. Harrington One week from today is March 1, the first day of meteorological Spring. Tod...

Once upon a time, I might have answered "White," for the snow that seems to be forever falling. But, after scanning the pictures I...

In meteorological terms, we'll hit mid-Winter in a few days, on January 15. Astronomically it'll be a couple of weeks longer, on Feb...

Our property abuts the Eastern edge of the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area [W.M.A.]. Several months ago we picked up a pamphlet publi...

Dog-walking time this morning was about 5:15 am. SiSi and I headed down the driveway and then South along the township road.There was almost...

As we've noted numerous times elsewhere on this blog, we were raised in New England, mostly in and around Boston, Massachusetts. Among t...

Do you remember the lyrics from the song in Fiddler on the Roof , especially the refrain? Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly...

We sit here pensively awaiting the onslaught of today's "wintry mix" followed by hours of heavy wet snow falling. Earlier we d...

Once again it's officially the "Holiday Season." Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade is underway. That's the milestone we u...

Rarely, but every once in a while, a small dash of common sense strikes us in a timely fashion. This week we're slowly getting Christmas...