The trees budded out yesterday, about a day earlier than last year. I drive across the mighty Mississippi River with it’s 36,0002-mile watershed worth of water on my way to and from work every day and I always look at the river and the trees as I cross the bridge high above the water. The [...]
Ascendancy of Spring
April 12, 2006
Monday evening, after a daytime high well into the 70s, I rode my bike to the beer store, bought a twelver of Leinie’s Original cans, bungeed it to my bike rack and rode home. That same night, Rosie and I went to the first barbecue of the year over at Scrubs and Wrench’s. I wore [...]
Nobody sits like this rock sits
May 12, 2005
You rock / rock. / The rock just sits and is. / You show us how to just sit here / and that’s what we need. It is cold here in Minnesota right now. I don’t know if the rest of the nation is aware of that. It is windy, rainy, damp, dreary. And it [...]
The Bachelor Life
April 14, 2005
There it is. The green glow of the trees. I notice it driving across the Mississippi on my way home from work. The tops of the trees in the valley are the palest green but green nonetheless. I can’t help smiling for my body is humming with an unfamiliar hum now. I stop at the [...]
Three Squares a Day: The Salad
April 6, 2005
Part two of in a multi-part series about last weekend. The first course was The Appetizer. Stay tuned for more. This is a great time of year for trout fishing at this latitude and altitude. The fish are as active as they get, the bugs are hatching and — my favorite part — the streamside [...]