It’s been awhile since our last post. Last summer’s annual cicadas gradually faded away, with the last songs heard on warm days in early October.
However, our explorations of our natural surroundings continue. Now we write about them on a new blog, called Neighborhood Nature: Our Family’s Nature Blog. You can visit it here: http://neighborhoodnature.wordpress.com/
Neighborhood Nature is about the nature my children and I find near our home — the animals, plants, fungi, and rocks we encounter in our neighborhood in south Oak Park, Illinois. And it’s also about the passionate, almost obsessive interests that my kids have developed in birds, bugs, fossils, and other natural things as they’ve grown. And Neighborhood Nature is also a parenting blog. It’s about the choices my wife and I have made in parenting our passionately interested kids.
Our future observations of cicadas will be recorded on Neighborhood Nature. However, this blog will remain as an archive of our cicada hunting adventures during 2007 and 2008.