It’s gonna be a hot one…

My thermometer was reading 80°F at 7 a.m., and the heat index is expected to exceed 100°F later today, so I did my best to get a nice early start in Estabrook Park this morning. Another upside to chasing the sunrise is that I got to visit our young guest, the immature yellow-crowned night heron,Continue reading “It’s gonna be a hot one…”

It feels like summer has finally arrived.

Anne and I made it safely back to Shorewood from BRAW yesterday afternoon, and I was just too lazy to write a “Happy Summer Solstice” post then, but the good news is that I did venture back into Estabrook Park this morning, and look who I found waiting for me at the pond. When IContinue reading “It feels like summer has finally arrived.”