Just Passing Through

Yahoo used to be an exclamation of celebration.  On the other hand, yahoos were pretty clueless folks, provincial, ignorant, not terribly we...

Steve and I met friends in St. Paul for dinner last night. It was raining very lightly, so little that I didn't bother with the umbrella...

 I've been doing a bit of shopping lately, mostly for the garden. The fantasy is that once things are planted this time the critters wo...

I told somebody yesterday I grew up on a farm. My family remembers it as a resort on the Crow Wing chain of lakes.  Of course I remember tha...

A friend of mine had some time yesterday morning and accepted my offer to revisit the park. She's only been to the version on the WI sid...

Many years ago I tried a flower I'd never heard of before to go in the home garden: balloon flowers.  Go look them up. You'll find t...

I say that like there's only one.  If we're talking within ten miles, that's correct. It's along the St. Croix River just no...