My Minnesota

After last night’s snow fall of four to five inches, the neighborhood looks more typical for February in the North Country. Most of the wint...

[Google is still making it difficult to add photos.] It’s probably my fault that we’re in line for some unseasonably warm weather. A week or...

The world that is being created around us is less and less one that I want to support or participate in. I won’t be presumptuous enough to c...

 In addition to being the day after Thanksgiving (Bye, Nothing Day), today is also  Women’s Merry Making Day  and Native American Heritage D...

Happy Labor Day. Have you noticed we live in times when change means jobs are being lost to automation and/or Artificial Intelligence. Will ...

"I wonder if waves get discouraged" Photo by J. Harrington This morning I discovered at least one wonderful, to me at least, re...

Today saw the arrival of a pair of Baltimore orioles, male and female. Of course, we promptly rehung the grape jelly feeder, which was immed...

We're going to try something a little different today. For quite a while we've been struggling with  the idea that conversations, in...

Earlier today I came across a nice, albeit limited [7 words], Glossary of River Words , put together by Merriam-Webster. I know from my own ...

I have developed an unfortunate habit of reading several books concurrently. Unfortunate because, inter alia, yesterday I wanted to quote a ...

Early this morning, while reading "Winter--the ultimate test" in Janine Benyus' Northwoods Wildlife , I encountered a couple o...

When I worked in Minneapolis, on occasion I'd see huge flocks of crows heading toward or coming from a roost, so I knew from personal ex...

I know, I promised to post this yesterday but was still getting comfortable with the name. Plus, today is the first day of meteorological Wi...

We initially had a different theme in mind for today's posting, until we read a certain poem this morning. Would that we had read it man...

Earlier today we read one of the vignettes in the Autumn section of Emily Stone's natural connections: exploring northwoods nature throu...