Photos submitted by Club members

Submitted by Env. Club Spring 2009 Club member Katy Witt:

This picture is of a pond area at Chicago Botanic Garden.
I went there this past summer and spent almost the whole day there.
There is so much to see, and the landscaping is beautiful.
A must see if you're in the area!

At the Chicago Botanic Garden, they had an entire courtyard devoted to bonsai trees
(the Japanese art of aesthetic miniaturization of trees).
Not only are these trees ridiculously tiny,
but when you get up close, it's like you’re in an actual forest!

The last picture is an example of another bonsai tree, up close and personal.
But to the untrained eye, it could seem like you're looking at a forest!

 

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Submitted by Env. Club Spring 2009 Vice President Jeremy Gilbert:

Snow field in Arkansas:

 

Lake Ponchartrain in Louisiana, one year after Hurricane Katrina:




Outside the Amana Colonies:

 

A winter scene on Marquette Street in Davenport:

 

Four pictures from Loud Thunder Forest Preserve near Illinois City, IL: