

Photos: the spider beside'r
I captured this blue collar woman hard at work. She'd been hanging on the window beside the kitchen table mummifying and devouring this...


Photos: Transition
On the Equinox, which also happens to be my birthday, I was visited by the Cooper's Hawk who lives in my neighborhood, plus a new albino...


The land of 10,000 glacial potholes
Glacial Lakes is a living record of ancient glacial activity dating 10,000 years back. Eskers, moraines, kames, and kettles form the...


Photos: The fall of summer
Not that I want to hurry summer along, but I'm getting really excited about the approaching maple leaf explosions and chilly fall nights....


Mushroom foraging and raptor watching: I'm not bluffing
Today I found a chanterelle the size of my face and a bunch of lobster mushrooms at Frontenac State Park. It finally dawned on me that a...


The devil isn't home
I've hiked to Minnesota's most legendary geological wonder, the Devil's Kettle, on just two different occasions: once during early fall...


Mosquitos and frenchmen and bears, oh my
I decided to take a solo night on the Superior Hiking Trail during a weeklong trip to the North Shore. In anticipation of a longer solo...