McHenry County Blog

After eating Mother’s Day brunch at a very crowded Port Edward in Algonquin, we went across Route 62 to Cornish Park along the Fox River.

The river was high, as you can see, but certainly not as high as it has been.

Even so, the dam was wide open.

There were more kids than I have ever seen playing at the park.

A couple were playing in the sandbox.

They had picked some of the plentiful dandelions and arranged the stems in arcs around the hole they had dug.

They placed the flowers in a circular fashion farther away.

I took this picture last Sunday afternoon.

It was really windy. A gray kind of day.

Leaves had been thrust through the chain line fence at Crystal Lake’s Main Beach.

They tried to get through, but were not as successful as the wind was cutting through my thin Heartland Blood Centers jacket.

Heartland more or less traded it to me, along with a bar-b-cue apron and cooking utensils, for four pints of blood.

I took this picture last Sunday afternoon.

It was really windy. A gray kind of day.

Leaves had been thrust through the chain line fence at Crystal Lake’s Main Beach.

They tried to get through, but were not as successful as the wind was cutting through my thin Heartland Blood Centers jacket.

Heartland more or less traded it to me, along with a bar-b-cue apron and cooking utensils, for four pints of blood.