We were up on the North Shore again last week and even though it rained a majority of the time I still really enjoyed myself. I didn’t mind the light mist while walking through the woods of the Superior National Forest at all actually. In fact, it kind of added to that almost mystical-feeling element [...]
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The North Shore
April 29, 2011 – 11:12 am
I got the chance to travel up the North Shore with a group of students this week. I had never been north of Duluth and now I am convinced I will retire there. It was still cold, but with views like this it didn’t seem to matter. We stayed at the AmericInn in Silver Bay, [...]
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum- Very Early Spring
March 31, 2011 – 3:38 pm
The Arboretum was free for its last Thursday of the cold season so we decided to take advantage of that and get out of the house for a bit. The temperature was about 49 degrees and actually felt pretty nice as we walked around the grounds. We started out indoors though and hit up my [...]
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
December 30, 2010 – 9:31 pm
I celebrated the first day of winter by starting what I hoped to be the first of many books I read during the cold months here in Minnesota. Four days later, I had finished The Lake of Dreams and felt as though I had gone on a mini vacation to the Finger Lakes region in [...]
