nature – Yellow Stripes & Dead Armadillos

Spring in Wisconsin

I was worried that Wisconsin would give her the wrong impression. My wife’s niece, a high school junior, is visiting this weekend to have a look at the UW. She’s from California. In fact, she lives a stone’s throw from Stanford. In Menlo Park, 45 degrees counts as “cold” and a day of rain registersContinue reading “Spring in Wisconsin”

The Sacraments of March

Some year I’ll make enough maple syrup to justify my own label. I’m thinking of calling it “Senseless Syrup.” I tapped a dozen trees up here at our place in the U.P. and then I had to wait a couple weeks to get enough sap. In the meantime I had to return to Madison andContinue reading “The Sacraments of March”