Ah, there’s the heat now. Wet, warm air that wraps around you, slows you down, amplifies the sun’s heat, penetrates your being. And yes, the cold of a week ago is a distant memory indeed. A couple days ago, I heard someone ask why Minnesotans are so stoic about the freezing cold temperatures of our [...]
The number 61 bus takes me clear across these cities on my way home from work. First, it’s out of downtown Minneapolis (crowds of office workers at the stops, usually waiting for other busses) then across the elegant Hennepin Ave. Bridge (the giant Grain Belt Premium sign on my left, the green suspension cables, St. [...]
I walked around a familiar park one warm and golden evening with Katie and Lola. We walked first through a brushy woods, lots of buckthorn, and then down a path sandwiched between a barbed wire fence and a row of pines. The trail took us down a small hill through a healthy stand of sumac. [...]
On Saturday about six o’ clock Brian and I got into Gabe’s canoe and paddled away from the site and across the river, looking for firewood. We tried the big backwater right across from us first, hoping to find driftwood that had hung up in the grasses there when the water came down, but there [...]
I awoke this morning at dawn because our dog, Lola, was standing over us in the tent, acting agitated. No matter how tired she should be from the previous day’s adventures, and no matter the fact that she routinely sleeps in until 9 a.m. on the weekends at home, it starts to get light out [...]
We paddled against the current about two miles to get here. Hardly able to believe the good fortune that the campsite was open. We sat by the little creek for a bit and sipped some beers and then left to paddle up another mile or so where we beached the canoes at a sandbar and [...]
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