Snow covered witch hazel This last week a big winter storm hovered over Minnesota for days. I am so glad I don’t live up on the north shore where they had a blizzard and as much as three feet of snow! In the Twin Cities we got rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then Wednesday night …
Category: Holidays
Not Buying It
It’s been lovely warm weather here since mid-week up until yesterday when the temperature made it to 53F/ 12C. I am laughing right now because when I googled to convert fahrenheit to celsius, one of the list of expandable Google questions that appeared on the results page was “Is 50 degrees Fahrenheit cold?” James and …
All Effed Up But Everything’s Fine
This has been a really fucked up couple of weeks. There is the heatwave in India and Pakistan that no one in the mainstream media is talking about, and if they do, it’s mentioned like a verbal shrug, implying that it doesn’t really matter because it’s over there, and climate change is a factor but …
Winter
The days may be getting incrementally longer, but we are headed into deep winter now. I always find the clear, brilliant blue skies of January a sort of consolation for the cold that reaches fingers deep into my lungs and bones. I’ve been on vacation for a week now and have one more week left. …
Happy Samhain!
Gift from a friend We finally got frost a little over a week ago. Not a below freezing kind of frost, more of a close enough to kill the tomatoes and squash vines frost. The asters still have a few flowers and the sage and oregano are still hanging in there too. We are going …
