My Minnesota

This was a heartening and fun morning following a beautiful sunset yesterday. First, we saw the sun rise, a rare occurrence these days. Seco...

We have a few, very few, patches of green showing up in the duff in front of the house. It's not clear what's growing in one locatio...

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

No sooner had January said au revoir than the sun came out this morning! That's at least a little bit of progress. Driving home from di...

In our neck of the woods, the shortest day is less than a week away. Our Winter Solstice will occur at 10:19 pm CST on Saturday, December 21...

The Better Half [BH] spent much of this morning whipping together dough for Christmas cookies, while I baked a loaf of artisan sourdough who...

Most days early morning dog walks come closer to being a daily chore than a climb through a wardrobe door to Narnia . This morning wasn'...

Minneapolis and St. Paul get an average of 42% sunshine in December. Duluth gets a little less, 39%. We're between the Twin Cities and D...

We walked the dogs a little later than usual today. Our adult children are Harry Potter fans so we all went to see "Fantastic Beasts an...

Fifty years ago today, one of our personal heroes died. He never became president, as his brother had. We've listed below those who have...

Down the road a couple of miles there's a hillside that's been covered with trillium the past few years, sometime in late May or ear...

There's a strange light in the sky today. I'm not sure what it is. If it were farther away, it might be a star. I'll watch and s...

Earlier this week, a dusting of snow became a white board on which red squirrels and (I think) downy woodpeckers left messages. Today the bo...

Yesterday's snow certainly "freshened" the landscape. The new snow makes it obvious that the squirrels haven't yet been ...

We're "enjoying" double  and single digits below zero temperatures, with about a 10 mph wind, making the windchill about 20 ...

Where I am, and for most of Minnesota, there's a good deal of sunshine in store for us today. We're overdue. Clouds plus fairly he...

Hi! What a treat: sunshine, after only four or five days of overcast and rain. I know it's too early in the season to start thinking a...

© harrington Hi! Ready for today's question? Here it is: "11.    On what day of the year are the shadows shortest where you l...