It’s easy to complain about everything right now because, well, reasons. But these are some shots from work just this week, so that at least is awesome.

Damn conscious. Had to take a few hours off my vacation to discover the local bird rescue folks in an attempt to get this little guy healthy and back out in the world or meeting a peaceful end instead of on the sidewalk in front of a parking garage.

The recommendations.

Just a spring beauty appreciation post. Imagine this mixed within your lawn….

Today’s class started with a Canada goose walking out of a restaurant, then hissing at and chasing me away, then proceeded on the Wild Mile where a student told some fish-related dad jokes and another had custom fish nail art.
A+ day

I made art! With soil!
Very cool “painting with soils” workshop at Society for Ecological Restoration meeting.

Shout out to one of my favorite spring flowers-Pennsylvania Sedge. Spreading like a beauty in my urban clay & construction debris “soil”.

These geese rudely demonstrating how good the sod looks in our experiment comparing lawns to different native plant installations (post burn and some installation bumps in the road)

Morning coworker

Good morning from the steamy north branch of the Chicago River and its freshly burned banks.