Community Voices

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Freshly cut hay on a perfect summer day. (Photo by Greg Schieber)</span>

Essay | Making Hay…as Well as Memories

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">Maiden Hair Fern (Adiantum) flourishes in full shade or dappled sunlight. (Photo by Renee Bergstrom)</span>

June Arrives

NICOL PHOTO

Poetry | Yggdrasil…Turning green…the voice

Connection with a neighbor and quick action by a local ambulance crew brought aid to Don Bell.

Root River Diary | Counting on Your Neighbors

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b;"><em>High School baseball is in full force during May. In this picture, the batter makes contact with the baseball while the catcher is still poised to receive the pitch. (Photo by Craig Johnson)</em> </span>

Prelude to Summer

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">The author’s favorite ephemeral is the Showy Orchis. This exquisite member of the orchid family has won acclaim from some Morel mushroom hunters as a reliable signal for when the Morels will appear. Unfortunately, it is also well known for being extremely hard to find anywhere. So if you find it, celebrate your good luck. (Photos by Loni Kemp) </span>

Ephemeral Wildflowers Blanket The Woods — Quick, Look Now!

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; "><em>Geese and goslings float in the water on a sunny spring day. (Photo by Renee Bergstrom)</em></span>

Seasonal Photos

<span style="font-size: 14px; color: #6c6b6b; ">A foggy morning at the confluence of the North and South Branches of the Root River, captured by photographer Renee Bergstrom.</span>

Root River Song

Reclaiming the garden was one of the first projects after moving to the Big Woods. (Photo by Greg Schieber)

Essay | Time is Illusive on Our Farm in the Big Woods

Blooming native bluebells (Mertensia boraginaceae) return to the Root River valley every spring. (Photo by Nancy North)

Poetry | Wandering into Spring

A lone cottonwood against the distant melting remnants of snow between Bratsberg and Highland in eastern Fillmore County. (Photo by Craig Johnson)

Winter into Spring

Each spring, the Mississippi River’s backwater streams gradually return to life across the Reno Bottoms south of Brownsville. (Photo by Ken Lubinski)

Essay | Spring Rising

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