prairie field

This is another view from Glacial Park, looking west. From the summit of a glacial kame (a hill created by glacial deposition), you have a view of this extensive plain of rural Illinois. I had had this view twice before and imagined it covered in a light mist. I anticipated to have a view with a mist that morning but mist didn't generate. Instead, I had a clear view that overlooks the entire park and beyond. Wildflowers were in bloom along the Nippersink River. I took a zoomed-in photo around the river with one of the bridges in center. The yellow flowers were in all the spaces in that photo. Sunlight was shining onto the flowers. It looks more like a spring scene instead of late summer. It is my favourite photo.

 

This place may look quiet, but the sound of traffic never ceased white I was there. There is a country highway outside the park, between the plain and the woods. There is a traffic noise even on a country road like this on the outskirts far from Chicago city limits. I have never been to the areas seen in this photo or beyond because I never had a reason to go. I checked the areas I would be seeing in this photo on the map. The farthest point in this photo is probably only in the eastern half of McHenry County. The county's limit is about ten miles away from the park, then there is another 60 liner miles or so to the state border. This state is immensely large. I always have difficulty grasping its scale.

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