Here are some other Web Sites that may be of interest:

• Chicago Wilderness
  This site is just one of the many resources that shows what Chicagoland has to offer and what people are doing to help preserve and restore habitats. The Habitat Project and Somme Prairie Grove are a couple of other examples.

• The Morton Arboretum
  This arboretum has brains as well as beauty! It has been superb resource for our home landscape and another great place to show out-of-towners what Chicagoland has to offer.

• Brookfield Zoo
  My earliest memory of Brookfield Zoo is being in a baby stroller ing controlled by my father. (Bumping down steps was a little worrisome.) The zoo is fantastic year round!

• The Nature Conservancy
  Besides an great conservation organization, their field trips (day or longer) are fantastic. Through it, we went on our first dinosaur dig.

• DuPage County Forest Preserve: Links
  The DuPage County Forest Preserve District has an excellent web site, especially their list of links.

• DuPage County Solid Waste Department
  A nicely designed site about how to get rid of stuff.

• The Slug Site
  A few years ago, I found a haiku by Shiki:
  
  • Doing nothing at all, the sea slug has lived 18,000 years.
  I had no idea what a sea slug was, but an internet search solved that by leading me to this wonderful site.

• The Oriental Institute
  This museum at the University of Chicago is probably why I love Egyptian stylization. The Field Museum was another great influence and is a Chicago favorite.

• The Other Pages
  My mother, who has a fantastic memory especially for poetry, was struggling to remember who wrote the poem with the line:
  
  • Old parson, red-eyed as a ferret
    From nightly wrestlings with the spirit;.
  Thanks to this site, I found it. It is The Everlasting Mercy by John Masefield.

• Kromfohrlanders U.S.A.
  This site is sponsored by a friend who hopes to establish the Kromfohrlander breed in the USA. Kromfohrlanders are sweet dogs and the puppies are adorable!

• Chikuzen Studios
  This is Michael Gould's web site. He is a master shakuhachi player and teacher. His teacher, Mr. Yoshinobu Taniguchi, is a artist as well as a shakuhachi master. His drawings are used on this site that I designed for Michael Gould.

• Art quilts by M. Kamenskaya
  Check out these amazing quilts! A friend of mine makes them.

• College of DuPage
  This community college is where I've studied graphic arts, advertising, design, art, photography as well as Japanese language. They also have a excellent center for the performing arts. We saw Kodo there who literally brought down a ceiling tile!

• Book & Paper Arts Guild
  I'm a member of this art guild.