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Fire and Ice

Twin Cities ephemera: The thaw/freeze period is underway. Even when the air temperature is below freezing, any degree of sun visibility is enough to instigate some melting of the snow cover: seven to...

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What About Spring?

Twin Cities ephemera: The sky has cleared, mostly, after a day and a half of on-, off- and on-again snowfall—about eight inches in my backyard, officially nine at the airport. It’s the second biggest...

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Spring 2013 Review

Twin Cities ephemera: The past four days have been catch-up time in the garden and yard. Everything, except the young vegetables, grew extravagantly during the time I was on the road. The dandelions...

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Belt-Tightening Time

Twin Cities ephemera: After what has seemed like a season of monsoon rains, it’s now been four days since a general rainfall through the area. Amazing, and yet largely as expected (see previous post)....

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Damage Done

Twin Cities ephemera: A twenty-five minute hurricane blew through here in the hour before sundown on Solstice Day. Up here on the relative heights of Minneapolis, lots of trees came down, along with...

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Snark und Schadenfreude

Twin Cities ephemera: It’s hot and muggy. That’s the story. Folks are miserable around here, and a new heat record was set yesterday. Two actually: a record high temperature, and latest date for a low...

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Fracking Awful

Twin Cities ephemera: The season has definitely turned. The last pretend-summer day, the “heat-spike” day (9 September, when the temperature officially reached 94), actually served notice that summer...

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The Pause

Twin Cities ephemera: It’s been a lovely week here near the Falls of St. Anthony, after the five-day siege of clouds and rain. About an inch and a third of rain fell in my backyard, most of it during...

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Winter 2014 Overview

Twin Cities ephemera: The first flakes of wet snow began falling yesterday a few hours before the New Moon, concluding a notably dry week, as anticipated. I’d been noting how dry the soil surface was...

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Fall 2013 Review

Twin Cities ephemera: A bright dawn under a fat-crescent waning moon lit the blanket of snow today: Sunrise actually came about two minutes later than on the solstice–one of the many factoids to be...

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Ground Zero

Twin Cities ephemera: Ah, spring in Minnesota: It’s the second full day of astronomical spring, and I went out just before sunup to check conditions and walk what’s left of the Nazca pattern in the...

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Soggy Season

Twin Cities ephemera: The solstice moment here, minutes after sunrise, was, unsurprisingly, a bit murky, even though the Sun shone and the waning Moon was visible. I jumped on my bike for a ride to the...

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A Chill in the Air

Twin Cities ephemera: As much fun (and obsessive) as the process generally is, I’ve found it challenging lately to find / make time for this endeavor. One might think that by midsummer the garden would...

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The Occultation Factor

Twin Cities ephemera: The Harvest Moon is setting, opposite a rosy sky with Venus and Jupiter, as I set about winnowing a collection of somewhat random notes. The window beside me is open, letting in a...

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Saguaro Tales

Twin Cities ephemera (or should it be, report from the desert?): It was a bit of a rude return, from hot, dry Arizona to chilly, breezy Minnesota. It was also a welcome return, from a land with little...

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Zombie Ideology

Twin Cities ephemera: The snow arrived on the schedule laid out by the techno-weather folks, although in less amount than forecast. After a gorgeous October that seemed almost endless, the reality of...

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Regime Change

Twin Cities ephemera: Short, cold, sunny day follows shorter, cold, sunny day, as the siege of clouds slips into fading memory. Even considering that December tends to be the cloudiest time of year in...

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Equinox Epicenter

Twin Cities ephemera: It’s yet another cloudy, chilly, although so far not breezy, day. At least I got myself outside for the seven a.m. look at the precipitation gauge, and was rewarded with a glimpse...

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Cricket Crescendo

Twin Cities ephemera: I don’t think it’s that my ears are suddenly more sensitive, and I don’t think it’s because the weather has turned warmer and more humid: I do think the crickets are making more...

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Satisfied Mind / Idiot Wind

Twin Cities ephemera: How does that old song go: “Satisfied Mind”? I can’t quite recall. But that’s how I feel just now, this Saturday morning. Satisfied in mind and belly, because I’ve just pushed...

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