Category: The Daily

A bird admires the sunset from the rooftop of its house before calling it a day. At least that’s the story I like in my head about this picture.

Just a scenic drive with trees creating a canyon effect.

Walking down a trail in Banff, Canada, I saw a tree that looked interesting. A closer look and I though Tom, or maybe Tess, etched “Tom + Tess” into the tree so the tree would show their love through the years. Sadly it just looks like a guy name Tom Tess decided it would be…

At the beginning of the day, the park is getting ready to enjoy its champions once again.

To get to the cupola at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, Italy, you have to climb a lot of steps. While I didn’t count them, reports range from around 500 to 550 steps. If you “cheat” and take the elevator to an upper level of the church you can trim that number to about 320.…

At the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on Big Island, Hawaii, you learn of the tales of those who have broken the Kapu, also known as sacred laws. Their only chance of survival was a dangerous trek to Puʻuhonua. It’s a very interesting place to learn of the history of land maybe some 400…

While going for walks I saw the “Do Not Mow” sign put up on a field that was recently mowed. I believe that was the last mowing that ever occurred in the field as, since then, the prairie grass, although in this case it looks like weeds, have never been mowed.

There are many who gave their lives in the military. This is not my image, I didn’t take it obviously, but for my posting on this Memorial Day it seemed appropriate. It always touched me as it is my Great Grandmother Schaier visiting the gravesite of her son, my Great Uncle Edward Schaier, who died…

We have many wonderful places to see a variety of flowers, and Cantigny Park in Winfield, Illinois is great. On this trip in August, many flowers were in bloom, including the Japanese Anemone in the color purple. I like how it had a bunch of buds hanging around the bloom, almost like a batch of…

Springbook Prairie in Naperville is a wonderful place to go for a walk, or run for that matter. If you want to go around the main loop it’s about five and a half miles of flatness and some rolling hills. There was a morning I went for a walk early as the sun was rising,…