Category: Chicago Botanic Garden

  • You know the song When you’re happy and you know it clap your hands? I was thinking about it the other day – when I’m happy and I know it I take pleasure in my everyday tasks and projects. And also when I’m happy and I know it I tend to post on my blog.…

  • I haven’t been to the Chicago Botanic Garden lately. So it felt good to go last week. I had a nice walk through the prairie, a slow walk. Pausing to look closely at all the details. There were butterflies and every kind of bee and two toads and so much bird song. The redwing blackbirds…

  • In an effort to overcome my oversized fear of red-wing blackbirds I now traipse around the botanic garden with hat and umbrella. Even on clear and sunny days. Yes.

  • One more photo – from Bea. A pink swan! She know I like swans so she always send me photos of them.