I am greeting the arrival of spring in Minnesota with great joy. Bathing in Beauty From a distance the landscape looks like a mist of spring green. The weeping willow trees are draped in a veil of yellow-green and tiny plants and flowers are beginning to bloom. It makes me Read more…
It’s the last day of March. All of the snow has been gone for most of the month and the landscape has been an unremitting brown and gray. Looking up I see bare trees and bushes. Looking down I see muddy ground. One of my friends calls this season, “the Read more…
As the weather in Minnesota continues to be unseasonably warm and I am recovering from a spring sinus infection and tonsillitis, I spent some time today going through previous years’ spring photos. Here are the ones that stood out for me today. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath Read more…
It’s March already and I am so grateful. Living in Minnesota, I am always relieved when January and February are behind me for the year. March brings hopes for an early spring (not always realized but something I always wish for). And March also brings milder temperatures. When new snow Read more…
In a winter that has already been mild and relatively snow-free, we are experiencing a big February thaw. Today it rained all morning and temperatures above freezing predicted for the next week, it looks like ice fishing may be over for the season here in Minneapolis. Our neighbors have left Read more…