Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota spring’
Take a walk on the wild side
I had a wild weekend. Not in the “Dad, can you please post my bail?” kind — more in the John Muir sense: Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet … On Friday evening I strolled […]
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Tags: Como Lake, Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, Minnesota spring, Minnesota wildlife, St Paul spring
Spring must be close
It’s been only two weeks since the record-setting late-season hyphenated-expletive snowstorm, but it already feels like a lifetime ago. Our plow guy’s son pretty much summed it up. Last weekend brought temperatures in the 60s (15.5 Celsius) and a thaw so rapid you could literally hear the ground sucking in the snowmelt. I was giddy […]
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Tags: Flower photography, macro photography, Minnesota spring, Minnesota winter
Even after 30-plus Minnesota winters, I’m still astounded every spring when the snow stops, the ground thaws, and life re-emerges. It seems impossible (miraculous!) that anything can survive — especially the little things, like field mice and wildflowers. I have no field mice to offer today. But I do have a bumper-crop of wildflowers — […]
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Tags: Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden, lady slipper, Minnesota spring, Minnesota state flower, Pam, showy lady slipper
