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Looking forward to future activations in this space again! If you are in the area and interested in learning more feel free to reach out.
Entrance to a Nature Play area at a forest preserve in the Wild Onion City. A living archway of willow boughs welcomes children and kinfolk down a flagstone path. Beyond the handcrafted fence a whimsical play-space can be made out through the bare trees surrounding the yard. A sign beside the entrance gives tips on mindful uses of the space with the word “Welcome” legible from this distance, and two people one tall and one small illustrated on said sign. Another view from inside the Nature Play-space Stumps and things for climbing on, beams and boulders fill the space. One path is paved for wheelchair access and goes through another willow tunnel. The willows are budding out in golden green but otherwise the Forest in the background is bare, save for an oak holding on to last years brown leaves.
April 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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Sometimes in the woods you run into weird s#*t. And sometimes it is right out of the textbook.
A photo of a large lump of deer scat on the prairie floor; grass and oak leaves. A hand holds up a booklet beside it open to a page with an illustration closely resembling the scat that reads: White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus Winter [illustration of pellet scat] D 08-1.3 cm L 13-4 cm Preferred browse Acorns (espoilly white oak), cedar, Hemlock Scat: Pellets soft, compressed: stick together in clumps or short, thick sections; found in forage areas. Summer [illustration of lump scat similar to one shown above] Preferred browse: tender young leaves and branches of hardwoods, saplings; non-woody plants. Scat: smooth exicrior, saw dusty when broken apart; found in loose piles in forage areas or along trails. Range: Throughout
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Eternally surprised every time a crocus uncreases
beauty refined
Consistently distraught every time a death is stolen
dignity strip-mined
Arrhythmically heart-dropped every time a missile
screams across the skyline
Tears keep pouring
rage keeps roiling
fuels stubborn joy divine:
we remain reminded
An image of a silky petaled crocus emerging from crisp dry leaf-litter and a bed of vinca vines. The tip of the aubergine purple bud glistens in the bright morning sunlight. Three leaf-spikes have emerged with this bud. Slightly behind ki two more clusters of leafs anticipate more flowers soon to emerge. Behind it all brick buildings, a wrought-iron fence and a small ornamental river birch tree trunk elucidate the context of this British-style urban flower garden.
March 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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Equinox, day of birth and death, sprouting and decay, time of rapid changes, an audible upheaval and release from the heaviness of winter. The soil breathes in and releases the rotting odors of all that was frozen and expired. Mud, mud, mud! and onion sprouts.
A clump of chive grass or wild chives emerge from the loosened till of the spring thaw. Leaf skeletons cover the ground, in the distance through the thicket of trees the gray sky turns blue.
March 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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The kids in the woods today remarked, why does it smell like onions!?! we looked around to find the first shoots of our beloved Nodding Onion (Allium cernuum) springing from the otherwise dormant prairie. Spring is just a week away and we are feeling eager and excited!
an up close photo of wild nodding onion sprouts emerging from beneath late-winter detritus and moss in a restored prairie.
March 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM