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Author Archives: BRETT McNEIL

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This winter, get out of the house and stay there

by Brett McNeil February 19, 2019

The trail is a frozen pond. Behind the North Riverside Village Commons in Commons Park, the scenic fountain ponds of summer are thick with ice beckoning skaters to take a spin under the gray skies of mid-winter.

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The river is a song in the solitudes of winter

by Brett McNeil January 8, 2019
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Death of a dying blue spruce

by Brett McNeil October 23, 2018
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Summer ebbs in broiling languor as fall awaits

by Brett McNeil September 11, 2018
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No ‘witness trees’ but walnut canopy beckons

by Brett McNeil August 21, 2018
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When summer’s good, the natural world comes right to you

by Brett McNeil July 31, 2018
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Like the outdoors? Pray for drought

by Brett McNeil July 10, 2018
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A good, well-shaded place with a baby

by Brett McNeil June 19, 2018
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Seasonal charms of the Salt Creek Trail

by Brett McNeil June 5, 2018
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Outside human time and control in the National Groves

by Brett McNeil May 8, 2018

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