We live in an age where electronics, weather services, and GPS systems inform us of all our meteorological needs. Our temperature, our speed, our heat index, our low and high pressure systems, our wind speeds. All of these indexes are determined by people with state of the art electronic contrivance. Step back two hundred years …
DON’T ALWAYS BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK-THE CREATION OF A VIEW POINT By Bill Keitel. A curious beginning, I had just finished apprenticing at a local shoe repair shop, I specialized in creating prescription orthopedic buildups for a Podiatry School that was located in my community. I elected to strike out on my own and …
RoadNotes Summer 2018-The Dakota’s As we travel throughout the nation we often visit communities at the same time each year. Over the course of a couple of decades this gives us a glimpse into the phenology of a community. A curious event occurred in Brookings South Dakota about a decade ago, it was the mass …
TED TURNER The pictures we never took. (Please submit a bison industry photo) We’ve had good fortune associating ourselves with the bison industry. It is an industry that is comprised of ranchers and processors. (hat’s off to friend Rodney Sather and the NBA) Occasionally I have been asked to do some public speaking. I was …
It is early morning and the reflection of sound off my tin furnace chimney alerts me that the flock has grown exponentially. From it, I can hear the sounds of thousands and thousands of waterfowl. I am across the street from Worthington’s Okabena Lake. It has become the Midwest’s staging area for Birders. Thousands of …
I live in a small community in S.W. Minnesota and within our community we have a beautiful body of water called Okabena Lake. I’m a student of history and enjoy keenly the journals of historic explorers that traversed this region in the early days of expansion. The name Okabena is purported to be a Siouian …
I phone my artist friends and ask “will we see you in Breckenridge, Co. exhibiting at the art fair?” A long hesitation…..” Our R.V. can’t make it up that steep mountain at 12,000 ft”. We set off with a devil-may-care attitude. We travel in an RV with a turbo diesel and we can do the …
In Search Of The Elusive Great Northern Kiskadee! My interest in birding started at an early age. My cousin was filled with alarm and excitement when he identified a new species at the Blue Mounds State Park in South Western Minnesota. He willingly shared his enthusiasm by handing me his expensive binoculars. He pointed out …
The Blue Mounds State Park My companions are my wife, Les Rogers and Louise K and our new new found friends Wu and Dr. Ling Min from Taiwan. They have arrived in South Western Minnesota to spend a weekend and to build their life list of birds and friendships. Dr. Ling Min is a wildlife …
We take the Winslow exit and drive south on highway 87 & 99. We head east on Territorial Road. If you have an aversion to dirt and dusty roads, stop and turn around right here! Our destination is a place called Rock Art Ranch. Earlier in the day I picked up the phone and asked …