My Minnesota

There’s an old phrase I bet you’ve heard: “Keep it simple!” Off and on during the course of my life I’ve tried to follow that piece of advic...

Leaf-out is progressing by leaps and bounds. So are orange road construction signs and detours. We noticed both today when the Better Half j...

Moonset was beautiful this morning, very cold, but beautiful. It looked a lot like the photo below, which was taken in December several year...

Thanks to the Better Half’s [BH] leading the way, today we dumped half a coffee can’s worth of change into the coin counter at our credit un...

All day it's been snowing off and on. No accumulation, but it's traumatizing the blossoms on our back yard forsythia. Since it's...

Today is, among other things, World Wildlife Day . This year's theme is "Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and Planet....

Of note: Today is Eeyore the Donkey 's 149th birthday. [UPDATE] Today is  Joy Harjo 's birthday. Yesterday was Gary Snyder ...

Cold, damp, cloudy, dreary...Welcome to Spring in Minnesota. The Equinox occurs tonight at 10:49 pm CDT. It's preceded by rain and, mayb...

The current weather has been like mid-to-late-March or thereabouts for the past few days. We drove home last night, Christmas night in Minne...

If life were a movie, the next few days would be the trailer for late February, early March. That's when average daytime highs once agai...

Today is Smokey the Bear's 75th birthday. One of our favorite poets, 50 long years ago, said what is even more important today and tomor...

Sometimes, life's coincidences are a little scary. Late last week we lost a filling in one of our molars. Today, one of the most delight...

Today, the Yellow Goat's Beard ( Tragopogon dubius ) has come into bloom. We've been sprinkled on a few times, but not even a real ...

The breeze has been more of a hindrance to fly-fishing than this week’s showers ever were. It’s been blowing consistently in the 10 to 15 mp...

It has, for the past 48 hours or so, been snowing off and on. More on than off. When it hasn't been snowing it's been blowing, or sl...

More signs of Spring are starting to appear on this Ides of March/School Strike for Climate day. Goldfinches are definitely showing more col...