Welcome to a brand new year and a brand new day with the premiere wildflower forecast of the 2025 growing season! Visit Chicagoland’s woodlands for our first spring blooms.

SPRING WILDFLOWER SLIDESHOW PREVIEW

It’s official! Skunk cabbage is popping up. And that means the beginning of spring in the Chicago area. Here is my poem to commemorate the occasion…

On March 1st, I’m performing a new show at the 2025 Wild Things Conference entitled “The Enchantment of Light: How Earth’s Star Can Bring Magic to Your Nature Experience”.

On Saturday, the stream at Reed-Turner Woodland created a solar system of conspicuous frozen planets. But look more closely, you’ll find a…

In the autumn woodlands of the Chicago area, the bronze canopy drops to the ground. But that’s not all you’ll find on the ground. Learn Mike MacDonald’s favorite symbol of an autumn Chicago woodland.