Greetings from Crooked Creek in Northern Minnesota.

What we hope to bring to you in the Observer is a collection of stories and non-fiction articles and photographs dealing with such topics as travel, nature, environment, wildlife, evolution, culture, history and whatever thoughts and images flow from the North Woods.

Come visit us often. It's cozy here and the writing is friendly (unless we're mad about something).

If you like, you can find out more about how we came to be at Hionahil near Crooked Creek.

Travel

Nature and Wildlife

Society and Issues

History

Travel

• Range Riding: a "favorite ride" story about our motorcycle trip to Minnesota's Iron Range

• Minnesota's State Parks: A series on our visits to some of the state's parks
  • Itasca State Park
  • Glacial Lakes State Park
  • Great River Bluffs State Park (formerly O. L. Kipp State Park)
  • Bear Head Lake State Park
  • Lake Superior's Wild North Shore: Encountering the North Shore in Minnesota, especially by way of state parks

• Trekking the Rockies of Glacier and Banff: the story of our trip to Glacier National Park in Montana and Banff National Park in Alberta (in several chapters to be published periodically)
  • I. The Way West
  • II. Glacier National Park

• The Prairie in Bloom: a motorcycle trip to photograph wildflowers on some of Minnesota's last remaining native prairies

• WHITESTONE HILL: a Place in History: About Whitestone Hill - the bloodiest Indian battle ever fought on North Dakota soil

• The Land of the Silver Mound: Southwestern Wisconsin's valley farm country

• Lake Superior's Wild North Shore: Encountering the North Shore in Minnesota, especially by way of state parks

• The Quiet Traveler: A sense of place

• Teddy's Badlands: Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota

• Michigan's Upper Peninsula: A View of the South Shore of Lake Superior

• Travel and Adventure Links
  • Rec.Travel Library: emphasis on personal travelogues

• A Tribute to Glider: A trumpeter swan has a sweet tooth for Minnesota.

• Sunrise, Sunset: A series of images created by the rising and setting sun

• The Ways of Birds
  • A Pair of Mallards and their Habits
  • A Heron Rookery
  • A Grouse Goes A-Courtin'
  • A Tribute to Glider: A trumpeter swan has a sweet tooth for Minnesota
  • The Wood Duck - Flashy But Shy

• The Prairie in Bloom: a motorcycle trip to photograph wildflowers on some of Minnesota's last remaining native prairies

• More Prairie Wildflowers

• Havens For Wildlife: A look at our National Wildlife Refuges

• The Colorful World of Mushrooms

• The Forest Floor and All That Rot: What's at our feet during a walk in the woods?

• The Quiet Traveler: A sense of place

• Soft Dust: thoughts on life's indetermination

• Turtle Island Blues: Leonard Peltier, Columbus and Sitting Bull - a comic and tragic look at the encounter between Native Americans and Europeans

  Rez Road Follies, another good Native American Play

• Sled Dogs and Mushers

• Brainerd Area Coalition for Peace, a local peace activist group

• When Is A Treaty Not a Treaty?

• Farewell to Indian Sovereignty?

• The Quiet Traveler: A sense of place

• Turtle Island Blues: Leonard Peltier, Columbus and Sitting Bull - a comic and tragic look at the encounter between Native Americans and Europeans

• WHITESTONE HILL: a Place in History: About Whitestone Hill - the bloodiest Indian battle ever fought on North Dakota soil

• The Land of the Silver Mound: Southwestern Wisconsin's valley farm country

• Range Riding: a "favorite ride" story about our motorcycle trip to Minnesota's Iron Range

• Ghosts of the Prairie: Prairie farm grain elevators - becoming a part of history

• When Is A Treaty Not a Treaty?

If you have anything to say, feel free to contact us: Judi Schiller Richard Schiller schiller@emily.net March 8, 2004

'Nuff Said:

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
Thomas Mann

Coerced religion, on its good days, produces hypocrites, and on its bad days, rivers of blood.
Roger Williams, paraphrased