Rattlesnake Bluff and Final Soybean Crop This photo is a reminder to all of us that the soybean crop in this field and two adjoining...

Goose and Goslings For the last two weeks of April and first two weeks of May, folks turning off Highway 61 onto Wacouta Rd. were greeted...

Pasque Flowers On April 20th, I had the opportunity to celebrate "Earth Day" by participating in an event sponsored by the Friends Of The...

Pair of Canada Geese After reaching a high temperature of 72 degrees on April 8th, things went downhill remarkably fast. 48 hours later...

Flooded Field This was a most unusual winter with no snow until mid-January allowing for deep frost penetration. This was followed by...

Sign Along Wacouta Road For the past several years, I have been yearning for a winter featuring snow conditions supportive of a few weeks...

Negative 30 With an invitation from our Wacouta neighbor Sue Milbright, I was able to document the coldest temperature recorded in our...

Ice Floe Prior to the recent cold snap, there were vast stretches of open water on Lake Pepin with numerous ice flows moving along. Ice...

Sunrise at the Head of Lake Pepin Ever since mid-November our daily high temperatures have vacillated between the low 20's and high 40's....

Low Clouds Over Lake Pepin If you had the impression the sun took a sabbatical during the month of November, you were probably right. ...

Unique Reflection As I mentioned in my last post, the peak of fall colors this year was delayed and very subdued by the unusually cloudy...

Weather Stick It seems as though our backyard balsam fir weather stick was stuck in an unhappy downward position the first two weeks of...

Wacouta Bay Sedges In recent months, the Lake Pepin Legacy Alliance has put forth a considerable amount of effort in trying to educate...

August Sunset over Wacouta Bay There was a ten day period in mid-August when numerous air quality health alerts were issues for most of...

Dense Fog on the River After experiencing abnormally high water levels approaching 12 feet all of June and the first half of July, the...

During the spring migration, I observed and heard the trumpeting calls of numerous sandhill cranes overhead. Since green-up in mid-May,...

Purple Prairie Clover and Orange Coneflower For the past several years, there have been some very dedicated residents and members of the...

Peregrine Falcon Photo Credit: Dudrey Smith With the...

Lighthouse Island The first sign of green-up among our local native trees are the willows on Lighthouse Island on the Wisconsin side of...

Canvasback, Redheads and Scaup With the record setting snowfall/blizzard of April 14th and 15th, a large number of migrating songbirds...