My Gratitude List for the Week I found a pretty orange ranunculus flower plant at the grocery story this week. It brightens our dining room table and creates photo play fodder. Because it’s a plant instead of cut flowers, I anticipate much more photo play with this lovely little plant. Read more…
A Riot of Rainbow Colors I found these lovely orchids at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Conservatory today. Perhaps there is not every color in the rainbow, but almost! It was lovely inside and out today. The maple trees are still being tapped and the sugar house was making maple syrup Read more…
Happiness is… A Walk in the Woods I went for a walk at Big Willow park today. The trails were sloppy and muddy. The sky above was a uniform gray. And snow still clung to parts of the trails and along the sides of the trails. But it didn’t matter Read more…
The trees are bare but fallen leaves still blow in the November winds. Nearby Medicine Lake has iced over, then thawed in places only to ice over again. The ice is thin but strong enough in most places for the geese and ducks to stand on it without breaking through. Read more…
I’ve been hiking out at Wolsfeld Woods SNA at least once a week since Labor Day. It’s fall and I’m waiting for the huge old sugar maples to turn golden. Yesterday on my hike I saw that some of the trees are beginning to turn high in the canopy. Soon Read more…