illinois state parks

Our field trips this week included three forest preserves and a state park. We hadn't been to Marl Flat or Chain o' Lakes before. I've done seven out of the fourteen sites for the 2022 Hike Lake County challenge. (It began August 15 and goes through November.)

Coneflower, compass plant, lobelia.

Sumac, wild cucumber, gray dogwood.

Common reed, elderberry "lace" (after the birds have eaten the berries), ragweed.

My Friday morning shift at the church rummage sale wasn't terribly busy. The event chair said they had good traffic Thursday evening and made $698. As a volunteer my ...

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Our long-anticipated Alaska trip did not turn out as we planned. The outbound travel (O'Hare to Sitka by way of Seattle) was very disorienting for my husband. Fortunately we could get flights home that evening/night, including a nonstop overnight flight from Anchorge to O'Hare. I'm calmer now as I type this but you can well imagine that at the time I was *beyond* upset. On the positive side, once we got home his mood stabilized.

I declared it Lemonade Week, as in "when life gives you lemons...." We had several enjoyable day trips during a week ...

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