Dogs will run and swim themselves nearly to death given the opportunity. A perfectly flat hiking trail is a pleasure all its own. Where the trout-less Trout Brook at Afton State Park enters the St. Croix, a sandbar extends much further out into the river than you would think. That sandbar and the cold creek [...]
Hallelujah!
June 21, 2007
I don’t think I’m alone in feeling like the summer solstice should be declared a national holiday of some sort. It’s truly a glorious day at these latitudes… a beacon of hope when we are in the depths of winter, and cause for celebration when summer is upon us. When you have lived through cold, [...]
A Minute Here
August 4, 2006
These days aren’t getting any longer and there’s so much we still say we should do this summer. It’s easy to think fall is nearly here though it’s almost 90 degrees today. I said to Rosie the other day that summer feels like one big event. August arrives A little short of breath Inhale, exhale, [...]
Summer
June 27, 2006
sun and wind clouds every shape green leaves and grass popsicles and lemonade i’m not joking chips and salsa beer and cheese and white wine in the backyard burgers on the deck walks ice cream cones boat anchored swimming on a sandbar hotrods on university afternoon rain weekend construction driving here and there an hour [...]
It Flows Through Me Like Rain
July 18, 2005
Today was the first day in nine days that it hasn’t reached 90 degrees in Minnesota. Though I’m usually no fan of hot weather, this hasn’t felt like a heat wave. It’s felt like July. Summer in Minnesota. We were at a music festival (though it was about so much more than the music) all [...]