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Highwood, IL–The snow’s melting, the sky’s blue, the burn crew departed. Walk down Ft. Sheridan’s south beach in Openlands Lakeshore Preserve for signs of spring. Little shoots of green push up through the burned leaves. Water gushes in the ditch, ending in a rock waterfall into the lake. A rock fence marks the shore and stones of [...] Yesterday, 60 degrees and sunny. Today, 32 degrees and snow covering the ground. Evergreens laden with 3/20/2010 snow Snow still falling. Highland Park/Highwood, IL–This week’s birdapalooza continues, with red-headed woodpeckers hammering at trees, and hawks swooping and cartwheeling through the air. Makes me want to sing “Free Bird“. The only glitch is that it’s also time for controlled burns in Openlands Lakeshore Preserve and in the Fort Sheridan Forest Preserve. Is it really my allergies kicking [...] Birds at Ft. Sheridan. Photo by Laurie Borman Highwood/Highland Park, IL–Bring your binoculars! The birds are back at Ft. Sheridan Forest Preseve in Lake County, IL. Now is the time to see many species. The warm weather brings out red-winged blackbirds, sparrows, robins, crows, of course. But bare trees mean you can also easily see the [...] Lake Michigan ice ledge melts. Photo by Laurie Borman Highwood, IL–Birds sing, snowmelt rushes in the drainage canals. Ah, the signs of spring. At Lake Michigan’s edge, the huge ledge of ice slowly melts. It’s a wonderful time to check out Openlands Lakeshore Preserve in Ft. Sheridan. Colorful rocks litter the beach, exposed from [...] Ft. Sheridan Forest Preserve path in winter. Photo by Laurie Borman Trees raise their limbs to the sky. Photo by Laurie Borman Highland Park/Highwood, IL–Fresh snow covers the paths of Ft. Sheridan Nature Preserve in Lake County. Only a few birds pierce the silence. This is the time to trod in snowshoes, down [...] Lake Michigan shore in winter. Photo by Laurie Borman Highwood, IL– Snowshoeing along Openlands Lakefront Preserve sounds challenging, but the plowed road makes it almost too easy. It’s like walking in an Ansel Adams photo–everything all black and white, and there is the challenge. I’m no Ansel Adams. The beach is no longer a [...] Highwood, IL–The rain washed away most of the colorful leaves this week. However, there’s new things to see in the Fort now that the trees are bare. Check out wasp’s and squirrel’s nests in the trees, see unusual rocks nestled into beach driftwood, check out the moody sky over Lake Michigan. [...] Ft. Sheridan, IL–Fall is at its peak in Ft. Sheridan. Fall color peaks this week in northern Illinois. Check out scenes of families and photographers enjoying the forest preserves and changing leaves. Highwood, IL-
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