On a recent trip to Field Museum, The Seven-Year-Old and I wandered into a tiny room downstairs that looks deceptively like a pleasant little reading nook. There’s a desk, a wall of butterflies, a collection of bugs trapped in amber, and rat-sized beetles. What are those things called?
Spotted this Great Blue Heron on my way to the Wooded Island a week or two ago. Related Links: The Osaka Garden on Chicago’s Wooded Island (Caterpickles)…
Next time you’re at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry, take a few minutes to follow the walking trail behind the museum across the Clarence Darrow and/or North bridges.
There you’ll find Frederick Law Olmsted’s Wooded Island and the Osaka Garden, one of the few remaining remnants of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The island has been converted into a nature sanctuary and is an important stopping point for birds migrating through the Midwest.
Hello, fall. When did you get here? Related Links: More Wordless Wednesday on Caterpickles What we were up to a year ago: “Signs we may have…
Self-promotion is vexing. But I did want you to know that I have a new article out today. A Kid’s Guide to Chicago appeared this afternoon on the…
Moving is a drag. But at least I have my books back.
(OK. Not wordless at all, but I’m too happy to only have pictures.) When we moved to Chicago about a year ago, we rented a furnished…
Snow on trees is my favorite part of winter. And I’m ridiculously happy that I get to see it again this morning. Even if it is…
With an actual temperature of 6 degrees F and a wind chill of -16, it was too cold to walk The Six-Year-Old to school this morning.…
One of the wonderful things about living in our new neighborhood is that The Six-Year-Old and I get to walk to and from school every day.…
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