My Minnesota

Winter is approaching, a time for slowing down and storytelling. For some of us that also means more reading, although I suspect the Better ...

It was fifty years ago tomorrow that the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot memorialized the tragedy with his song Th...

In several ways, this has been literally a shitty week My dog SiSi has had diarrhea for the past few days and, since we’re getting the septi...

Twice this past week I’ve seen a flock of four or five sandhill cranes standing on a road. A few days ago they were on our paved road, with ...

First things first. Along the back roads to pick up this week's community supported agriculture [CSA] share, we saw a handful of deer, i...

On this penultimate day of July 2024, the weather forecast is changing by the moment. Thunderstorms come and go in the hourly forecast witho...

It started yesterday afternoon with a doe munching the lower branches of the elderberry bush in the back yard’s “wet spot.” She then proceed...

Yesterday’s full moon, which was completely cloud covered around here, is called the Strawberry Moon by the Ojibwe and the Good Berries Moon...

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...

I spent much of the morning mowing overly tall, excessively thick, grass in the back yard. It’s not been tended to for weeks, thanks to our ...

There’s a day lily bed on the south side of the driveway. Today, for the first time this season, about 3/8ths of an inch of leaf was visible...

In the past day or so, we’ve seen a few deer and even fewer hunters. Neither was in any sort of proximity to the other. It almost reminds me...

For the next eight days or so, local style guides call for fluorescent orange or pink outerwear. Through November 12 it’s deer firearms seas...

Yesterday I think I caught a glimpse of at least some pears in our pear tree. If so, there should be a few whitetail deer seeking some freeb...

For the past few days, we’ve been seeing a small flock of wild turkey hens traveling with their assorted poults through our yard and across ...

We started the morning with the discovery that raccoons(?) had disassembled the freshly refilled hummingbird feeder. [Last night we absentmi...

Soon, if not already, there could be bluebird fledglings in the bluebird house in the back yard. That’s the presumption because, over the pa...

 Late yesterday, we noticed a whitetail browsing on the lower branches of some conifers at the back edge of our property. This morning, afte...