The Nature Nearby

Viewing Moraine Valley from the Northwest


The local community college, Moraine Valley, sets aside a portion of its land for a natural prairie setting. Now that the summer has offered its warmth and sunshine, the grasses and wildflowers have grown tall. It's a nice setting, particularly at sunset.

Back on August 23rd, I took these images of the nature area:



The Telling Sign


The Blend

It's interesting because of the mix of structure, human and non-human. On one side there is the community college with its buildings and vast sprawl of parking lots and then there is a track which circles the campus and is used by lots of people and then there is touch of tall wild grasses stretching skyward and birds coming to roost at sunset.



Wildflowers


Natural Curves and Lines


One Focus


and then Another

I just love the light of sunset.



Stages of Openness


Sunset Rays

As with other images on my blog, you can click on them for a larger view. I hope you enjoy.

Retrofit

The Hubble space telescope recently saw some replacement/updgraded equipment installed. The results: Fantastic photos. The detail is remarkable. The Astronomy Picture of the Day site has posted a few of the recent images from Hubble:

Butterfly Nebula
Stephan's Quintet

Baseball Update

The White Sox took another one when I attended yesterday in a convincing 5-1 fashion, running my mark to non-sunday games to 8-0. I didn't attend today's game for a variety of reasons, time being a major factor. Though I didn't miss my potential first time Sunday winner...they lost 6-1. It's amazing how bad they have been at home on Sundays.

The Tigers have been on a roll lately. The Sox are now 8 games back. What small chance they have is fading quickly. The mantra next season might be coming out soon if it hasn't already arrived.