Ely
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
Birding with Bill Session 4 by Jo Kovach
April 28, 2010
It was a crisp 26 degrees when I pulled into the parking lot to meet the “birding” van. The sun had been up for an hour, rising over an hour earlier than at our first session. We headed out for one of the few open areas in our town – the [...]
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
Birding with Bill Session 3 by Jo Kovach
April 21, 2010
The sun was well up when we assembled at 6 AM, but it still was cold and we were all gloved and hatted. This week we had one focus: Great Blue Herons. Bill took us to the rookery on Eagles Nest. I didn’t even know that Ely had a [...]
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010
Birding with Bill Session 2 by Jo Kovach
April 14, 2010
We met again before the rest of the world was stirring – interesting to note that the sun was already up – what a difference a week makes. Also not as cold.
Bill took us to Winton to begin the morning. He reminded us that it is always good birding in Winton. [...]
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Birding with Bill by Jo Kovach
April 7, 2010
We met at 6 a.m. (!) in the parking lot outside Vermilion Community College. Eight of us piled into a van with the heater going on high. It was a brisk 28 degrees. The sun was just beginning to show on the eastern horizon. Today is the first of a [...]
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Done Too Soon by Ellen Cashman
Where did the winter go?
I took my last fishing trip up to Basswood three weeks ago, the morning of February 25. The temperature was 24 degrees below zero when we arrived at the Fall Lake landing at 8:00 AM. It was a perfect day for the teams. We had three teams, a total of eighteen [...]
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Your Mother Would Not Approve by Becca Brin Manlove
Orion is spanglier than the rhinestone cowboy tonight as he jumps up into the eastern sky and the crescent moon lends a little illumination to what would be a lovely snowshoe stroll.
But I am not strolling.
I am being pulled along lickety-split behind Mantis the recreational skijoring dog. Neither one of us has a [...]
Monday, February 15th, 2010
A Friendly Place by Becca Brin Manlove
After an evening with friends, made lively by a tumble of dogs and kids in a small house, one of them says, “Want to go for a ski sometime this week?”
So I clip an hour off the end of a workday, and we slide around the Trezona Trail.
Our pace varies with our conversation, [...]
Friday, February 5th, 2010
But, What Do You Do in the Winter? by Becca Brin Manlove
Doesn’t it get cold there?
We nod and pull long faces. “Yeah, it does.” We walk away feeling tough and stoic.
We don’t confess that when the ice comes on we hope for cold that will give some thickness to the ice, then we hope for snow and more snow, then more cold.
We’re not [...]
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Wild Ride on the 4 Mile by Becca Brin Manlove
I am dogsitting Nacho, a former Iditarod dog, this weekend, so when I found a friend willing to try skijoring we set out from Fall Lake. The friend hadn’t skijored before. I thought of Nacho as a steady puller so she hooked up to him while I harnessed myself to my dog, Mantis.
There were several [...]
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Skijoring by Becca Brin Manlove
I am sliding along behind my dog, Psycho Mantis. She’s trotting through 3 inches of powder and my weight’s drag on the skijoring rope is slowing her down while I work each mitten through the straps on my ski poles. Finally, I yank my hat down more firmly over my ears and pull my neck [...]
