Going to look at 40 acres about 75 minutes from town. $3600/acre. No improvements. No buildings.

Satellite from Goog

A large(r) tree branch was ripped off my silver maple in the backyard and fell into the garden last night. It broke my sunflowers, about half the tomato plants and knocked over the bean tripods. I'm still cutting it away. No major damage to the fencing or anything else ( Read more... )

Was sitting outside to watch storm blow in. Fast moving low clouds brought blowing rain so Tigger the Cat demanded we go inside so as to not get any wetter. She's like that. Went inside. Sat down on couch to watch. Big branch (5 inch diameter) from silver maple tree broke and flew into the picture window. No damage. It hit and then bounced off the ( Read more... )

For 2008, I am going to visit most, if not all, of the state parks, forests, fish & wildlife areas, and nature preserves in Illinois. I'll maintain a google map for it.

View Larger MapFor today, in not my smartest move, I visited Sand Ridge State Forest. Left over from the receding glaciers 15,000 years ago, the sand was swept into dunes during a ( Read more... )