My Minnesota

Some years, open water lasts into December and we get the pleasure of seeing trumpeter swans late in the season. Once, a few years ago, we w...

This morning a brightly colored Baltimore oriole male arrived at the grape jelly feeder. We hope he hangs around and isn’t just passing thro...

Yesterday, beneath a gray, cloud-covered sky, we witnessed a flock of five swans flying toward something, somewhere. The silhouettes of whit...

Last night, after sunset but before full dark, we had two, possibly three, visitors in the back yard. Whitetails, substantial shadows on the...

The Better Half [BH], while we were walking the dogs this morning, noticed a flock of five swans at about treetop height. They were silent a...

Compared to most prior years, we’ve seen very few swans this year. Perhaps those that migrated north last spring haven’t yet returned. That ...

It’s neither silent nor night, but all is calm and all is bright, at least for the moment. The sun is actually shining in a blue sky. Christ...

This morning unseasonably bitter cold brought frost, fog, hoarfrost, haze and/or low clouds. Behind and  through the mist the sun was a pure...

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...

This St. Patrick's Day morning the Better Half returned from doing some errands and kicked me out of the house. Actually, she told me th...

This morning as I left to do some errands, I noticed a number of open water leads along the Sunrise River channel through the Carlos Avery W...

We've seen lots more swans the past two days, in the air, on the ground and on the once again open waters of the Carlos Avery Sunrise Ri...

I know, I know! It's not even Thanksgiving yet and here I am complaining about Winter. Have you seen the forecast for next week? Here...

When we visited Crex Meadows near Grantsberg, WI a couple of weeks ago, we learned that the sandhill crane population was expected to peak n...

The past few days we've seen several dragonflies, one or two in the neighborhood, a couple more closer to the Twin Cities. To be honest,...

We wanted some tools for bread-baking, and more of a special flour available at the RiverMarket coop in Stillwater, so off we went with the ...

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...

While driving South near Lino Lakes this morning, we saw three swans in flight. Absent seeing angels, those swans may be the most graceful c...