With so many pools, beaches, and splash pads closed or complicated due to Covid social distancing requirements, the only way to beat the heat, it seems, is to take it back to nature in a way that I never thought I’d be comfortable with. Yeah, if you would have told me last year I’d be …
Forest Preserves Are Still Open and They’re Saving Our Sanity If you’ve been following awhile, you know I usually publish my Family Field Trip series posts on Friday, to give you ideas for the weekend ahead. But in COVID reality, the weekends just bleed into the weekdays and back again. Is a Saturday all that …
What do you do on those Indian summer days where it’s still blazing hot outside but the leaves are starting to turn and all the pools are long closed for the season? Mother Nature to the rescue! In summer or fall, Waterfall Glen in Darien is a gorgeous spot to explore — one of the …
The gardens of Cantigny are something to see in every season. I can’t decide if I prefer spring or fall, but the truth is you can’t go wrong any time. The artistically cultivated combinations of textures and riot of color of the plants and flowers is stunning, so much so that we are doing our …
