Skip to content

Blowing & Drifting

Life in and around Northfield, Minnesota.

Follow on Instagram

Recent Posts

  • Antarctic Flags (Antarctica photo essay 13)
  • Drinking Glaciers (Antarctica photo essay 12)
  • The Swan’s Nest (Antarctica photo essay 11)
  • Manmade Antarctica 2 (Antarctica photo essay 10)
  • Manmade Antarctica 1 (Antarctica photo essay 9)

Blog Search

Archives

RSS Snow & Gravel (my Tumblr blog about cycling on gravel and snow)

  • dfitzger: reddit: Weekend was quite rad http://4.srl/2fBZYei
  • The Arrowhead 135 ultra-marathon | Northern Wilds
  • "Tips to make your fat-biking more fun, from Duluth’s Diana McFadden" (Duluth News Tribune)

Category: spring

Daily Tanka: Construction Season II

Construction Season II
Without the chatter
Of the strolling customers,
Campus resounds with
The cheerfully annoying
Chirps of trucks going backwards 

Posted on June 23, 2017June 24, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, Carleton, Minnesota, Northfield, school, spring, summer, tanka, workLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Construction Season II

Daily Tanka: Construction Season I

Construction Season
The school year over,
Orange safety fencing now walls
The vacant sidewalks
And construction vehicles
Invade the empty green quads

Posted on June 22, 2017June 24, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, Carleton, Minnesota, Northfield, school, spring, summer, tanka, workLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Construction Season I

Daily Tanka: Aches and Pains

Aches and Pains
The physical pain
Of the day after the day
After a big race
Helps the body remember
It’s aliver than it was

Posted on June 20, 2017June 22, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, cycling, narcissism, nature, sport, spring, stupidities, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Aches and Pains

Daily Tanka: Woods


Woods
The leaf-filtered sun
Heightens the scent of rampant
Photosynthesis
Red deadfall and white birchbark
Leap from the green to the eye 

Posted on June 18, 2017June 20, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, cycling, Minnesota, nature, photos, sport, spring, summer, tanka, travelingLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Woods

Daily Tanka: Cheq Checklist

Cheq Checklist
Old school, flow, man-made
Off camber, bench cut, boardwalk
Bridge, jump, rock garden
Hairpin, buttonhook, sweeper
Logover, rockover, berm

Posted on June 17, 2017June 20, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, cycling, diversions, miscellany, narcissism, nature, photos, sport, spring, stupidities, tanka, travelingLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Cheq Checklist

Daily Tanka: Loons

Loons

On Bear Point, I saw
Only gift shoppe bears
I didn’t see loons
But I heard them on the lake
Invisible dinosaurs

Posted on June 16, 2017June 20, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, borrowed content, diversions, nature, photos, sport, spring, tanka, travelingLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Loons

Daily Tanka: TNG

TNG



Tuesday night gravel
Means facing the hot headwind, 
Soaking up the views
Into the river valley,
Then riding tailwinds back home

Posted on June 13, 2017June 15, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, cycling, diversions, Minnesota, narcissism, nature, Northfield, photos, sport, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: TNG

Daily Tanka: Imminent

Imminent
We went to the new
Brewery to drink good beers.
Before I had one
The owner said sorry for
Not installing the bike racks.

Posted on June 10, 2017June 13, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, cycling, Minnesota, miscellany, Northfield, photos, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Imminent

Daily Tanka: Field Trip

Field Trip



A river, bluffs, trails
Laughing, running, teasing tweens 
Yellow sun, blue sky
Rocks skipped over the water
Just five hours of fifth grade left

Posted on June 5, 2017June 14, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, diversions, family, girls, Minnesota, nature, Northfield, parenting, photos, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Field Trip

Daily Tanka: Field Day

Field Day
I’ve spent four Field Days
Manning the ball-throw events
And the first exchange
In the 4 x 100
Relay: I’ve earned those sunburns

Posted on June 2, 2017June 3, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, family, girls, Minnesota, Northfield, parenting, school, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Field Day

Daily Tanka: The Get-Ahead

The Get Ahead
The get-ahead push
Before a three-day weekend 
Requires a battle
Against this Thursday’s slacking
And the next Monday’s sucking

Posted on May 26, 2017May 28, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, Carleton, narcissism, spring, tanka, thing I learned today, workLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: The Get-Ahead

Daily Tanka: Campfire

Campfire
A campfire can make
Conversations more profound 
The darkness retreat
A good beer taste amazing
And a beard smell like ashes

Posted on May 24, 2017May 28, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, diversions, Minnesota, miscellany, Northfield, photos, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Campfire

Daily Tanka: Rainy Days

Rainy Days

Northfield is at the
Eastern edge of the Rockies’
Rain shadow, which means
The student union’s damp stench
Is really Montana’s fault

Posted on May 23, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, Carleton, Minnesota, nature, Northfield, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Rainy Days

Daily Tanka: Swallows

Swallows

Swallows sweep over
The pond, cleaning up the bugs
Some, sated, turn to
Hover on the westerly
Stationary boomerangs

Posted on May 21, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, diversions, Minnesota, nature, Northfield, spring, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Swallows

Daily Tanka: Tropical Minnesota

Tropical Minnesota
A rainy season
Decrepit infrastructure
An incompetent
Leader: this must be life in
A banana republic

Posted on May 17, 2017Categories 365 for 2017, art, politics, spring, stupidities, tankaLeave a comment on Daily Tanka: Tropical Minnesota

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 … Page 19 Next page
Proudly powered by WordPress