The weather in the last few weeks has been very changeable – for a while it was so cold and windy that it was difficult to plant.
When the temperature is very low it takes the seeds a while to melt their way into the surface of the snow. If the wind blows them before they stick, they blow across the surface. I always worry that I’ll lose all my seeds on days like that, so I usually stop planting. It was very cold for about a week, and I only got a few sections planted – some days I couldn’t plant at all. Continue reading →

This was the very last hunting week of the year – a special season for areas with way too many deer. No one hunted our land, but we heard lots of gunshots all around us. Continue reading →

It’s definitely winter. It snowed nearly constantly this week, with just a little sunshine in between the clouds. Continue reading →

This was a wet, indoors week, so I didn’t take many photos. One day was snowy, and everything was cold and frozen. The next day we had a thunderstorm, the temperature went up to 50 degrees, and all the snow washed away. Continue reading →

This is hunting week so we’re being careful about where we walk. We stay in our valleys – off the tops of the ridges. Continue reading →

The weather has finally started to be wintry. There were a couple big windstorms that blew most of the leaves off the trees, and we had our first snowstorm. Continue reading →

This week we drove down just before dusk and saw a few bats hovering in the air. Continue reading →

We’ve been having wonderful fall weather – bright blue skies, and the leaf colors still look beautiful. Continue reading →

Yesterday I saw an unusual butterfly in a very urban part of south Minneapolis. It was a Common Checkered Skipper – nectaring in the sun on some late blooming hawkweeds that were sticking up between the cracks in the sidewalk.

We had two frosts this week – not hard ones, but enough to turn the fields white. The temperature got into the high 20s. Continue reading →