One of the wonderful things about becoming older is the freedom and wisdom born from a life filled with a multitude of experiences. If I had it to do over again I wouldn’t change a thing, but I might wish that I could learn and believe a few things at Read more…
This week we celebrated my 65th birthday by spending a few days on the North Shore. The beauty of Northern Minnesota and Lake Superior always feeds my soul. But I’ve been having a recurrence of pain issues that make walking any distance painful so we did very little hiking and Read more…
This year for the first time in several years I’ve seen monarch butterflies frequently. This is a powerful signal that small actions can make a big difference in nature. Monarch populations have been in a decline for many years because of environmental changes like loss of common milkweed plants to Read more…
Summer Daze August this year in Minneapolis is filled with full on hot summer days —steamy, warm, and hazy with smoke from fires far away. Breathing becomes an effort and the sun is often obscured by the haze in the air. The ample rains of this summer have resulted in Read more…
“Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.” ― Madeleine L’Engle, Troubling a Star I went out to the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum to wander and make photographs yesterday. Here are my favorites from my day. “Part of doing something is listening. We are listening. To the sun. To the Read more…