This winter, get out of the house and stay there

Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 3:22 PM

The trail is a frozen pond. Behind the North Riverside Village Commons in Commons Park, the scenic fountain ponds of summer are thick with ice beckoning skaters to take a spin under the gray skies of mid-winter.

The river is a song in the solitudes of winter

Tuesday, January 8th, 2019 11:47 AM

The trail is a crystalline symphony. Down the hill at Swan Pond, the Des Plaines River turns east near the library and off toward Lockport. But right at the bend the river pools and calms off the main channel and the water, up after Christmas rains, laps at the bank in quiet, chiming splats of overlaid chords. 

Death of a dying blue spruce

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2018 3:32 PM

The trail is cold and misty and ends at the wood chipper. 

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