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Nature, trees, crafts, Chicago and more
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- Always a joy to put together a #charleyharper puzzle. This one is called Secret Sanctuary 🩵🧩💙
- A message for today and ALWAYS! #abolishdhs-ice
- Really, really enjoyed putting together the exquisite “Emergence” by Erin E. Hunter puzzle. From the box: “The plants depicted are larval food sources for the 20 moth species flying about …”. It was such a treat to assemble!! 🥰🧩💕
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- 2025’s Arboretum themed ornament: Nimbly the blue dasher dragonfly sculpture from the Vivid Creatures exhibition currently at The Morton Arboretum 🩵💜🩷
- Metal 🤘
- This morning’s beautiful sunrise 🧡🩷💜
- Good morning from (checks notes) Batch 17! 🤯 #shortbread #americastestkitchen
- ❗️💯❗️ (illustration by the extremely talented @timkocher.bsky.social 😊)
- Loved seeing Vivid Creatures all lit up for Illumination: Tree Lights at The Morton Arboretum at last night’s preview 💜🩵🩷 📷 @timkocher.bsky.social
- 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 …
