The ice went out on the Rum River yesterday. Finally! I've been checking out the river every day for the past two weeks expecting it to break up and flow away. The ice doesn't disappear all at once. The ice from a straight part of the river stays intact and gets caught up in the river bend. Eventually the pressure of the water and the warm temperatures crack the ice into smaller chunks that flow away with the stream. I'm glad to see it go.
Lights Out
Last night I attended an Audubon meeting here in Winona. The topic was light pollution. We watched a 35 minute documentary called Lights Out...
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A yellow rail, one of THE MOST ELUSIVE birds around, sound like a manual typewriter. And if you're too young to know what a manual ty...
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I received a gift from Offspring #1 - a collection of lectures on compact disk about Medieval Heroines in History and Legend. The speaker is... -
Today I was home quite a bit and saw a plethora of birds in my yard including two "first of the year" birds at opposite ends of...
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