{"id":415,"date":"2008-09-28T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/?p=415"},"modified":"2008-09-28T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T00:27:44","slug":"parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/parks\/","title":{"rendered":"Parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My parents visited several weeks ago, so we went to see the prairie at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanaparks.org\/facilities\/33.html\">Meadowbrook Park<\/a> , the prairie grove at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanaparks.org\/facilities\/32.html\">Busey Woods<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.state.il.us\/lands\/landmgt\/PARKS\/R3\/Kickapoo.htm\">Kickapoo State Park<\/a>. The latter, a former strip mine, is slated to close on Nov. 30 due to state budget woes, though that may change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_itemId=952\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=954&#038;g2_serialNumber=2\" height=50% width=50%\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monarch on thistle (Meadowbrook Park). Butterflies rarely hold still for me, so I&#8217;m happy this turned out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_itemId=958\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=960&#038;g2_serialNumber=2\" height=50% width=50%\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spider vs dragonfly (Busey Woods). This is a yellow and black garden spider. We came by the web shortly after the dragonfly was caught, so got to see most of the struggle. There were quite a few of these spiders at one spot along the path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_itemId=955\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smallinfinity.net\/galleries\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&#038;g2_itemId=957&#038;g2_serialNumber=5\" height=50% width=50%\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sephski, this is for you. (Meadowbrook Park, where there is a lot of sculpture, most of it less identifiable)<\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, J and I helped clear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhs.uiuc.edu\/chf\/outreach\/VMG\/bhnysckl.html\">bush honeysuckle<\/a> at Weaver Park, which is a relatively recent purchase by the city of Urbana. They plan to put ball and soccer fields there; people also want to preserve the 7 or 8 oak trees (red, white, and chinkapin) that are 300-400 years old. It&#8217;s neat to get in at the start of a project like that.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I went to Meadowbrook Park to collect seeds, which the park district uses there and at other parks (including Weaver) and sells. We had about a dozen plants we could have collected from, but most of us focused on one or two because it&#8217;s not easy to learn to id plants by seed head, especially when the leaves have already fallen off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My parents visited several weeks ago, so we went to see the prairie at Meadowbrook Park , the prairie grove at Busey Woods, and Kickapoo State Park. 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