Linton, Indiana–Every year Goose Pond Fish & Wildlife Area in Linton, Indiana sponsors the annual Marsh Madness. No, that’s not a typo, it’s not about basketball, it’s about cranes. Specifically, sandhill cranes. Due to Covid-19, this year’s event on Saturday, Feb. 27 is virtual, so visitors from all over can experience the arrival of cranes…
McCormick’s Creek State Park, Spencer, Indiana–It’s only April 2, but the early spring beauties and bloodroot blooms already poke up through the leaf litter on McCormick’s Creek State Park trails. Purple and white speckled flowers, the leaves and white mayapple flowers, tiny pups yet, dot the trailsides. Though the day promises nearly 50 degree temperatures, nary…
Bloomington, IN and Nashville, TN–Trek up and down the path through Bloomington’s Griffy Lake Nature Preserve, and you’ll catch glimpses of the lake and bare trees. But there’s lots of color, too, if you look closely. We found glossy green holly bushes bursting with red berries, orange mushrooms clinging to logs, as well as pretty…
Solsberry, IN–Down a winding, wooded country road past the Yoho Country Store, you’ll find the outdoor Sculpture Trails Museum. There are more than 100 sculptures created by artists all over the world to admire among the wooded, hilly trails, as well as a foundry where artists create some of the unique pieces here. In July,…
Bloomington, IN–A stroll through Indiana University’s campus reveals a grand landscape of Collegiate Gothic, Romanesque Revival, and Art Deco limestone buildings. But did you take in the diverse designs of stones and carvings? It’s almost the saying in reverse: not seeing the trees for the forest. Though I spend my four undergraduate years on the IU campus and lived in an historic…