Friday Flora: Petunias at Como Park
It is not likely you will see this scene replicated if you visited Como Park Zoo and Conservatory today after we just received 8 to 10 inches of snow in the Twin Cities. You could still go inside the Conservatory…
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Snow (in name)
It is snowing again in Minneapolis today. In order to take our minds off of this perpetual never-ending winter, let’s think about snow in a different context – plant names! – Orchis spectabilis (Galearis spectabilis), Snowy Orchis, Orchidaceae – Euphorbia…
How to… track animals in the snow
Last week in the Star Tribune, Bill Marchel of Brainerd, Minnesota contributed an article on the utility of snow in tracking animal behavior, “… there’s a tattletale residing in our woods and fields. Lying, waiting, it is able to recall,…
Minnesota Winter Scenes
Minnesota winter scenes from Koma Lake in the Superior National Forest, 1938: – Snow on Koma Lake, Cook County, March 1938 – Beaver cutting on Koma Lake, Cook County, March 1938…
Winter on the North Shore
We did it! We made it through our first major snowstorm of the season. Traffic made us late to work, we were chilled by the cold wind breezing past our cheeks, and we were forced to round up all of…
Snowy…
Snowy day, Snowy Owl: – Snowy Owl, Jenness Richardson, undated…
Snowshoe Rabbit
We’ve been waiting for another snowfall to share this little guy – a snowshoe rabbit. Walter J. Breckenridge captured these images of a snowshoe rabbit near the north shore of Lake Superior in the winter of 1927. Breckenridge was then…
Let It Snow
Following the first snowfall in the Twin Cities yesterday evening, I remembered that I have encountered several snowy scenes while working with the glass plate negatives in the Bell Museum collection. Here are some selected snow scenes to help sensitize…