On the lookout.

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This week’s Trail Tracing—Montrose Point Bird Sanctuary. A bit chilly and windy, and then, the gift of wonderful sunshine.

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“It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.”
—Moises Arias

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“Wilsoooooonnn!”

Felt badly for the kids who lost their ball and immediately thought of the “Castaway” movie line.

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“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke

Dutchman’s Breeches

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Wake up sleepyhead! It’s Monday. Let’s goooooo!

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This week’s Trail Tracing—River Park. Spring is here!

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Amaze, amaze, amaze!

Artemis II splashdown

“With one foot in the past and the other in the future, how can we possibly know what new path we might follow today?”
—Jan Pishok

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“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
—Ursula K. LeGuin

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“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.”
—Ashley Montagu

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“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
—Lao Tzu

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“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
—Ralph Marston

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This week’s Trail Tracing—Crabtree Nature Center. Gorgeous day to visit this lovely Cook County spot!

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
—Marcel Proust

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“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”
—Seneca

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.—Henry David Thoreau

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This week’s Trail Tracing—Busse Woods (Cook County, Illinois). We were hoping to see some pelicans, but no such luck. We did see swans and a red-breasted Merganser.

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“There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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“The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.”
—Chuck Jones

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If you pay attention, you may be amazed by the things you see. (At the top of a street sign—Barbie body with duck head!)

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This week’s Trail Tracing—A stroll to Lake Michigan. A Bufflehead sighting.

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“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
—e. e. cummings

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“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
—Khalil Gibran

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Fuzzy.

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If no one has told you today…

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This week’s Trail Tracing—Andersonville. Green stuff.

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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”
—Joseph Campbell

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“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”
~Irish proverb

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“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”
—Khalil Gibran

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