My Minnesota

April is the month of poetry of snow melt of snow fall of the return of ducks, geese, swans, and of herons and cranes, and of red-win...

Today is Palm Sunday and next Sunday is Easter, for those who celebrate. Yesterday was the third (inter)national  No Kings protest. (The Be...

Today, as I hope you know, is the first day of meteorological Spring. Parts of the driveway are still ice-covered. Maybe by the time dayligh...

 It's Superb owl Sunday. The sun is shining. Temperature may reach 32℉ for a short time today, more time at higher temperatures later th...

Today is the Celtic feast of Imbolc . In Celtic country it would be the first day of Spring. Here in the North Country it's mid-Winter a...

Another day with some episodes of freezing drizzle and rain. Side roads are sloppy and slippery. If AI is the upcoming thing, why aren't...

After getting a couple of inches of snow during the past few days, the neighborhood is looking more seasonal. The little snow cover we had a...

Much of this morning’s snow has melted. (I hope my screams didn’t disturb anyone.) Repeat after me: We need the moisture! Yesterday’s bag of...

The Spring Equinox occurs each year within a very limited timeframe. Easter , however, can move around quite a bit. This year brought us th...

Yesterday evening we were visited by four whitetail deer in a far corner of the field behind the house. This morning the dogs and I did inde...

When Mother Nature tries to squeeze a winter’s worth of weather into one week, some folks feel claustrophobic after the first few days of th...

Today is the first day of the last week of March, 2024. The full moon (Ojibwe: Snow Crust Moon; Lakota: Snow Blindness Moon) occurred at 2:...

More signs of spring, better than spring blizzards, are appearing in the lull between storms. The Sunrise River pools were hosting several b...

As I drove along County Road 36 this morning, through the Carlos Avery pools, there they were, about a dozen of so Canada geese, floating on...

Once again the ice is starting to open on the Sunrise River pools near Highway 36 in the Carlos Avery Wildlife Management Area. Today there ...

This may be (one of) the nicest February days ever in the North Country. Blue skies, sunshine, temperatures in the mid-40’s, little breeze a...

Early this morning, or very late last night, the clouds and the bare, clustered tree branches provided a faint, ghostly portrait of the moon...