audio narratives: Art-of-the-State (Parks)

a celebration of Minnesota’s rich and diverse natural environment

The more civilized man becomes, the more he needs and craves a great background of forest wildness, to which he may return like a contrite prodigal from the husks of an artificial life.

Ellen Burns Sherman

wild river afternoon

A solo late winter snowshoe in Wild Rover State Park introduces surprises in myriad foot prints.

spring song

The volume’s turned up on muddy trails at Minnesota's William O’Brien State Park and my ears open to the music

Flower Power at Nerstrand Big Woods or: how I learned to say "Cutleaf Toothwort" without giggling

password: bluebell

One Thursday in spring, bluebells explode into a sea of color like a holy shrine at Carley State Park, MN.

audio narrative: Afton on the Stay-at-Home-Order

Taking a walk in early spring and thinking about the coming limits to our freedom to move.

audio narrative: Walk in the Time of Coronavirus

As we enter a new phase of the pandemic – and Blissful recovers – let's look back to the beginning.