Behind the Museum of Science and Industry lies a whole wonderful natural world. The Wooded Island and Jackson Park Lagoon.
Looking from the Clarence Darrow Bridge south.
Clarence Darrow Memorial Bridge
Looking across the lagoon to the Japanese Garden
There's a path leading through the woods toward the Bobolink Meadow
Bobolink Meadow
A lush spring in the Meadow
Path through Bobolink Meadow--compass plant
Daisy Fleabane in the Bobolink Meadow in Fall
Prairie Coneflower in the Meadow in fall
Bobolink Meadow in Fall
Nodding Wild Onion in the meadow
Bergamot and Prairie Coneflowers
Fleabane, coneflowers and bergamot
Compass plant
Swamp Milkweed
Columbine and daisy fleabane
My means of transportation
Across the boardwalk
A view of the old dead treee that was soon to be blown over in a storm
A wild iris
Iris in the midst of trash
A different king of iris blooms near the lagoon
Along the south shore of the lagoon willows grow
Willows grow alongside the lagoon
Island in the lagoon--I pick up plastic bags, but that blue one is out of reach
What a perfect day--clouds and reflections and flowers
Can't resist those cloud reflections
Another iris
The Golf Driving Range is right next to this paradise.
And nearby is the soccer field.
Canadian geese call this field their own!
Maybe that's a nesting pair?
Get on in the water, youngsters!
All present?
Quite a gathering of geese
Flox on the Wooded Island in spring
Old trees on the Wooded Island are beaver targets
The old rose garden on the Wooded Island
Looking upward
The Music Court at the Museum of Science and Industry
Fall on the Bobolink Meadow with daisy fleabane, and yellow daisies
Who could tell you're right in the city of Chicago?
Asters and Black-eyed Susans
Late fall on the Meadow
A Fall picture on the Meadow
A heron on the island
See if you can find the great blue heron on the island
Another great blue heron
Spring in the Bobolink Meadow
Fall wildflowers in the Bobolink Meadow
Fall at its peak--goldenrod and flowering spurge
Looking east
Wooded Island
Fall in the Bobolink Meadow--purple coneflower, coreopsis
Purple coneflowers
Purple Coneflowers
Water lilies
Reeds alongside the Lagoon
What are those orange flowers?
Common milkweed
Filhing in the Lagoon
The old tree has fallen.
Heron
What is this purple flower? Beard's Tongue, penstemon?
Shooting Star in the spring
Redbud in the Japanese Garden on the Wooded Island
Lilacs in the spring
The pine tree is blooming!
A mallard taking a snooze
Flowering trees in the Japanese Garden
Azalea in the Garden
Lush spring in the Japanese Garden
July in Meadow
Midsummer
Limestone ledges south of the Lagoon
Common milkweed in July
The water lilies are getting huge by July
View toward the bridge into the Bobolink Meadow
Bee balm, purple cone flower, sunflowers in July
Looking south from the Bobolink Meadow
July
Rattlesnake Master with the sunflowers
Now all dive down
Now all face east
Lovely grasses
Berries late in the season
Thistles
Autumn
Milkweed
Black-eyed Susan and Yellow Coneflower
