Walking Squares 11.30.22
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Wordless Wednesday…all by myself
Posted: November 30, 2022 in Nature, squaresTags: McDowell Forest Preserve, Nature, squares, SquareUp challenge, Walking Squares
Random nature walking squares
Posted: November 29, 2022 in Nature, squaresTags: berries, contrasts in nature, drops, Illinois, leaves, McDowell Forest Preserve, milkweed, Nature, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge, Walking Squares
Just some photos I took while out walking. Anything with drops always gets my attention, even though drops aren’t as rare in Illinois as in Arizona.
I like the shape of these berries and the contrast between the dried leaf on the left and the berries.
Milkweed. What’s not to like? They contrast prickly and soft as well as attracting monarch butterflies. But they do reproduce rather quickly so if you have some, you’ll have to keep pulling up the new ones.
Walking in Illinois with Jo and Becky
Posted: November 28, 2022 in Monday walk, squaresTags: fun with friends, Highway 20 Brewing Company, Illinois, Jo's Monday Walk, Monday walk, SquareUp challenge, Walking Squares
Our friends in Illinois are having a house built in Northern Illinois so one day the two of them and I went there. It’s a beautiful spot. We left at 5 am so when the sun came up, we we were there to enjoy a lovely autumn sunrise.
It was cold, creating some lovely mist over a nearby lake.
It had warmed up by the time we got to this man-made waterfall. We didn’t stay too long as there were several groups of people having a good time and making lots of noise.
One of us spent the day manhandling a machine that chopped up everything in its path while two of us did a bit of sight-seeing. But we were all ready for lunch and a beer, the latter enjoyed at this former church now brewery. Unfortunately, they didn’t have their dark beer ready but I made do with an in-between brew. 🙂 All in all, it was a grand day. As you can imagine, none of us were up very late that night!
Stop!
Posted: November 27, 2022 in One Word Sunday, squaresTags: #OWS, Nature, One Word Sunday, squares, SquareUp challenge, squirrels, Walking Squares, Wyoming
Friday’s fuzzy foliage and fungus
Posted: November 25, 2022 in Nature, squaresTags: fuzzy, Illinois fungus, Nature, plants, squares, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge
I’m happy Becky’s back doing squares! I’ve missed that challenge. I have two photos as squares for todays’s walk but the other refused to go into a square without losing its fuzziness. Who was I to quibble?
Squares first.
What I saw while walking…quintessential autumn
Posted: November 23, 2022 in squares, Wordless WednesdayTags: Anderson Japanese Gardens, Anderson Japanese Gardens Rockford Illinois, squares, SquareUp challenge, Walking Squares, Wordless Wednesday
Walking Squares…11.23.22
Wordless Wednesday
A Monday walk squared
Posted: November 21, 2022 in Monday walk, squaresTags: Aurora Illinois, autumn, fall foliage, Jo's Monday Walk, Monday walk, riverwalks, squares, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge, Walking Squares
Jo’s walking and Becky’s back with her wonderful square challenge. Life is good. I’m back from my vacation with lots of photos and stories to share, so let’s start walking.
This trip was all about seeing friends but there was a lot of scenery too, autumn colors that I’d been craving. On the 2 1/2 day drive, I’d passed through New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Missouri before crossing the state line into Illinois. Especially in Missouri I drove through hundreds of miles of thousands of trees in their festive bronzes, oranges, reds, and a few luminous yellows. The day after I arrived, my friend and I drove to downtown Aurora, Illinois for coffee and friend time, starting at Endiro Coffee. Although I’m mostly a tea person and my coffee drinks are mochas or cappuccinos, Endiro serves what they call African Coffee (or tea): Easy on the espresso or black tea, lots of steamed milk and light and sweet masala spice. Once when our younger daughter and I were there, she had the African coffee which I tried and loved. That’s what I had this time.
Downtown Aurora has a rather nice river walk surrounded by lots of old, repurposed buildings. I love that they haven’t been torn down but are used just as they were.
I got my autumn color fix too.
It was a propitious start to my two-and-a-half week visit!
Jo’s Monday Walk 11.21.22
How odd! The month seems to have flown by, something this dragonfly apparently couldn’t manage. Of course February does have 2-3 less days than the other months, but still…
Unless you look closely (thanks to my photo), you might feel as I did that this empty seed pod is just floating in the air.
Here’s another sculpture from Tonoho Chul using a number of repurposed items.
You can tap maple trees but who knew you could tap cacti? 🙂 I’m sorry to see the odd challenge end but it must go the way of all good things, I guess. Thanks for another enjoyable month, Becky, even if we did get short-changed by a few days. 🙂
Philadelphia odds
Posted: February 25, 2022 in squaresTags: Barnes Museum, birds, reflecting pool, reflections, SquareOdds, squares, SquareUp, SquareUp challenge
A single bird making a landing in the reflecting pool at The Barnes Museum in Philadelphia (an odd number.)
An odd reflection of that same pool.
This, that and the other thing 