30 seconds on the conifer path today at The Morton Arboretum 💚🌲💚

Today’s gorgeous sunrise 😊

Another magnificent Halloween on the lovely southside of Chicago 🧡🎃🧡

It’s so beautiful outside right now 🎃👻🍁

Happy Halloween!!!! 🎃

Almost forgot to post these pics! It also snowed in Chicago on Halloween in 2019! ❄️🎃❄️

Trick or Treat(ers)!!!! Highlights from Halloween, 2019 (can’t believe all of these cute kids are 6 years older now) 👻👻👻

Only one week to go until Halloween! Here’s an oldie but a goodie … our dog Lenny 🌈 stopping kids in their tracks during the Beye School Halloween Parade in Oak Park IL on October 31, 2017 🧡🧡🧡

Remembering that one time our dog, Lenny, hung out with Bill Murray at a Cubs game … 😉

Our heralds of winter have arrived! Two, maybe three, dark eyed juncos spotted in our yard today 🥰🥰🥰

A beautiful day for the #chicagomarathon

“The bottom line is all butterflies are moths, and there's no such thing as butterflies.” - Entomologist Akito Kawahara, Florida Museum of Natural History from Gardening for Moths: a regional guide by Jim McCormac and Chelsea Gottfried

Sharing my IG video from back in July 2023 of rescued, captive reared and released Sea Rocket, Wild Indigo and Prickly Pear, and our most precious Imani (Monty and Rose’s boy) at Montrose Beach!! Sea Rocket and Imani went on to successfully raised three chicks in 2025 ! @chicagopiping.bsky.social

And there goes all the clean water in the birdbath this morning! 😂 #starlings

Halt! This is the realm of death! (aka our house ☠️👻☺️)

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First week of fall at The Morton Arboretum …

#blueskyartshow #angle Eleanor Daley Boathouse, Park 571, Chicago. “We wanted the building’s form to reflect the movement of rowing and draw people here to learn and experience rowing and the valuable teamwork it instills. …

More from last week’s foggy sunrise in EP 🥰

#ploverappreciationday #ploverart

An early #robertredford role: playing a murderer in the 1961 detective series The New Breed, starring Leslie Nielsen. The show only lasted one season, but the intro is mighty cool. #quinnmartin

🧵 1/8 Families protest construction of mobile classrooms on Chicago's south side (1963) All Photos: Chicago Sun-Times Collection, Chicago History Museum

The Civic Arts Church at 5810 S Lafayette in Washington Park. Once home to several Black congregations, it sits mostly alone on its block and was at risk of abandonment until the Sweet Water Foundation acquired it in 2021 and turned it into an arts center. With a big bank vault door on it bc why not

Got out my UV resin today and attached stakes to the Kodama figurines in my terrarium so I could position them better 🥰🥰🥰

Some weeks call for a double batch of shortbread 😅

Morning fog over the southside of Chicago on 9/12/25 ☁️ 🩵🤍❤️ ☁️

Morning dawn, sights and sounds 🐔🐝🌻 #evergreenpark #evergreenparkil #southside

Psychic powers on display at sunset on Labor Day #summer #evergreenpark #southside #blueskyartshow

In this week's Poetry Clinic post, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social scientist Jake Miesbauer and I consider how trees respond to heavy winds, and how pathogenic fungi, adjacent trees, root grafts, and soil texture all affect their ability to remain upright in a storm. poetryclinic.org/when-you-are...

Pre-show fun with @timkocher.bsky.social while waiting for Liz and Jon’s pop up concert at Reggies Rock Club to begin. It was so cool hearing them rehearse 🥰🥰🥰 #metal + #cicadas #chicagosummer #thebeths #slwal #xrtchicago @thebeths.bsky.social

Trees + The Beths = the start of a beautiful day 🥰 #roundabout #thebeths #joy #themortonarboretum

Tonight’s sky show 🥰

Gentle little #butterfly visitors 🧡🩵💜💛 Video made with 🎥📸 from @timkocher.bsky.social

The #skyline from the pier at 63rd Street Beach on 🩵 Chicago’s 🤍 Southside ❤️ #blueskyartshow #hydepark #woodlawn #chicago #sunset #summer

#bumblebee love 🐝💛🖤

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@chicagopiping.bsky.social if you are missing Bean and El hanging out together as much as I am, maybe this video of them piping greetings to each other on the pier at 63rd Street Beach will help 🤍🫘🚊 Sound ON! 🔊 🎥: @timkocher.bsky.social (63rd Street Beach, 08/08/25, 9:40 am)

No piping plovers for us last night at 63rd Street Beach, but we were treated to a most gorgeous consolation prize 🧡🧡🧡 #hydepark #woodlawn #chicago #lakemichigan #beach #southside

The rocks at Promontory Point #hydepark #chicago #burnhampark #blueskyartshow #jagged #savethepoint #lakemichigan

Piping plovers happily piping and pooping on the pier at 63rd street beach this morning 🥰❤️🎵 #pipingplovers #chicago @chicagopiping.bsky.social

Thanks so much, Bean and El, for visiting us on the southside of Chicago 🩵🤍❤️ #pipingplovers #chicago #sharethelove #chicagopipingplovers #lakemichigan #federallyendangered

We went to Promontory Point yesterday to say farewell to Ferris 💔💔💔 #illrememberyou #pipingplover #lakemichigan #chicago #hydepark #savethepoint

Tonight’s #damselfly #familiarbluet 🤍🖤🤍

Flowerpot Parasol mushrooms (Leucocoprinus birnbaumii) yesterday afternoon and this morning 🍄‍🟫💛

On the edge of a storm cloud earlier today in #evergreenpark #sunshineandrain #trees #southside

#zinnia flower bud #alternating #blueskyartshow #green

#blueskyartshow #alternating blue and black on a gorgeous #bluet #damselfly 🩵🖤🩵🖤

Other garden visitors this week 🥰 #Papiliopolyxenes - #blackswallowtailcaterpillar #Villalateralis - #beefly #Enallagmacivile - #familiarbluet

Really looking forward to checking out Promontory Point someday 😊

@chaseprairie.bsky.social there is no one I can think of that would appreciate more the cute leg tuck we have going on here 🥰❤️🦵