- by Gary Marks Spring is Here, Enter Snow The calendar has finally rolled over to spring, the time for change in the Shawnee Hills. This is the season that trees come back to life and the cooler temps give way to warmer breezes. Yeah, right! I started off my last article Looking for Fall Amongst the Brown in a similar way, but even though the calendar says spring, we are still experiencing winter’s bitter chill. It’s odd to wake up on [...]
Winter, Winter, Go Away? – by Gary Marks Winter is a time that can make us scurry inside, trying to get away from the bitter cold temperatures. For some of us just the saying “winter” is a dirty word, but there are some people that wait patiently for the cooler temps so they can explore the frozen world outside. Here in Southern Illinois we rarely stay cold for any length of time. It can be in the 60′s like this past [...]
A.S. – After Snow – by Gary Marks Was it all a dream? Was a winter veil thrown across my sleep-deprived eyes? Sitting here well over a week after the last snow event, one wonders. That wondering stops though as the computer cycles through photographs and the reality of it all sinks in. As the snow is thawing and only piles of white memories remain, we look back and remember that occasionally the proof of winter does come to Southern Illinois [...]
- by Gary Marks Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, a time for us as a nation and a people to remind ourselves what we are grateful for. Ask a hundred different people what they are thankful for and you will get many different answers. Many will say family, others will say friends, and others will say they are thankful for the grace of God, but whatever you are thankful for, remember to bless and encourage one another, so that we all will be [...]
Fall On the Western Side of the Shawnee National Forest – by Gary Marks Exit Fall, Enter Winter The calendar has finally rolled over to November, the time for change in the Shawnee Hills. This is the month that trees become silent and the cooler temps blow swiftly from the north. Winter will be quickly approaching giving rise to collisions of warm and cold fronts making November rains and waterfalls a very high possibility. There is one thing that November is [...]
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