For this artsy Saturday, I want to give you a picture looking out the dining room window of the Giant City Lodge State Park in
Tag: IL
Lady of the Palms
I took this picture a few months ago while visiting a conservatory in Rockford Illinois. She and a few of her friends were peeking out of
Galena…
I have visited Galena Illinois four times since the picture below was taken in 1990. The town just seems frozen in time to when
Nauvoo IL – Mormon Settlement
Nauvoo Village was one of several settlements established and then all but abandoned by Mormons due to battles with their neighbors. The first was

Religion In America – Bishop Hill
This week’s Religion in America post will be about Bishop Hill in central Illinois. Like last week’s post it is about a group who escaped
Wall Signs..
About the only wall signs you find anymore are those that have been uncovered with a building restoration. The creativity of those signs seem to