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 [...]
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Big Mama sugar maple holds two buckets of sap. Photo by Laurie Borman Deerfield, IL– It’s a sure sign of spring when maple sugar hikes begin at Ryerson Woods. Jen Berlinghof, an environmental educator at the 552-acre conservation area owned by the Lake County Forest Preserve District, leads the hikes. She’s also the manpower behind tapping 35 trees each [...] The hockey game was Olympian, with a late score by the U.S. team. And though Canada scored in overtime (3-2), when you realize that three Canadian players were Chicago Blackhawks and one Chicago Blackhawk was playing for the U.S., I say Chicago won the 2010 Olympics Hockey final. Look for some serious celebrations in Chicago this week, [...]
Aquabus will take you in and around Vancouver. Photo by Laurie Borman Vancouver, British Columbia–Everybody’s watching Vancouver, with the Olympics in full swing. It’s cool, it’s sophisticated, it’s laid-back, and one of the best cities to visit. Here are my top five favorite things about Vancouver: Artful Caffe Artigiano latte. Photo by Laurie Borman Custom-made lattes. Get a [...] We may not have the Snowmaggedon of the East Coast today, but Chicago is hunkering down for a foot or more of snow today and tomorrow. No biggie–this city’s been prepared for heavy weather since the late 70s when a certain mayoral candidate lost the race because he couldn’t get the streets cleared. Chicagoland has [...] 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 the path to [...] Spertus Institute at 610 S. Michigan Ave., Photo by William Zbaren Crown Great Hall. Photo by William Zbaren. Chicago’s Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies built an amazing structure on historic Michigan Avenue in 2007, all angles of glass and ribs of steel. You might be thinking, ugh, I hate those cold all-glass buildings, and in [...] Highland Park, IL–Why does the buck cross the neighborhood street? I don’t know, I forgot to ask I was so stunned. He, on the other hand, wasn’t fazed. Twin Lakes, WI–Golden delicious apples make for good eating and easy picking at Oriole Springs Orchard, a Wisconsin institution since 1919. An easy drive over the IL border from Antioch for north suburban Chicago residents, Oriole Springs has plenty of apples and now a pumpkin patch, too. Just down the road is Harvest [...] |
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