Last weekend Ellen and I were up at our lake cottage getting things ready for fishing season and summer fun. It was rather cold with snow off and on most of the day Friday….not really the spring wea...
10May
29Jun
Woodchuck Haven
Last winter I noticed an animal path under one of our sheds at our cottage. A few weeks ago I spotted the animals that created the path….a woodchuck family. I came out one morning to find a young wo...
11Jun
BWCA canoe trip.
I was on a canoe trip in Minnesota’s boundary water canoe area (BWCA) for several days this week. Every year a group of my high school friends gets together for a trip. This year we expanded our gro...
04May
Illgen City and Two Harbors
This past weekend Ellen and I traveled to Northern Minnesota to visit my brother. He operates the Whispering Pines Motel on highway 61 just north of Silver Bay. It was a great weekend to be out and ab...
06Feb
Wright’s Keys
Earlier this week Ellen and I had an opportunity to do something I’ve always wanted to do….visit a private Frank Lloyd Wright home. The opportunity presented itself when a friend arranged for us t...