Willow Springs Woods Jan. 2011

A Day at Little Red Schoolhouse

We had a great day at The Little Red Schoolhouse Art Fair yesterday. There was a pretty good crowd considering the weather. A big thanks to all of the Palos volunteers who came out to help set up, take down, and talk to the curious who came into our booth. We got quite a few new names for our Palos Weekly. We also passed out schedules and we left some in the new Education Center, and if you haven't seen that yet it is worth a trip to visit and spend some time enjoying and learning.

Butterfly video trial

Creating Katydid Savana

The end of January we were at Katydid prairie creating a savana at the south end of the prairie. All oaks were left with ash, elm and black cherry being removed. This will be a interesting place to observe over the Spring and Summer growing season to see the effect of the increased light. One of the sawyers became creative and made a stool which Dennis used at break time. Trasforming areas like this makes for one of the most exciting workdays. But then each workday creates it's own small transformations, even clearing garlic mustard from around a fallen log creates a better place.