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...

Weeping Willow One of the first signs of spring color change was the greenish-yellow hue of this weeping willow in the wetlands of the...

Three Among Many In my previous post, I mentioned that deer tend to yard up in sizable groups near a reliable source of food in the...

Deer Trails on Rattlesnake Bluff As we have experienced a more typical winter with below zero temperatures overnight these past few...

Upper Bay at Colvill Park During two recent stretches of very cold weather; one the end of December and one in early January, I observed...

Sea Smoke The cold weather we have experienced the past ten days is a welcomed change reminding me of what a typical Minnesota winter...