Chuck's Adventures: Memorial Day Sunday

Monday, May 31, 2010

Memorial Day Sunday

Great day yesterday! It began with church service followed by meeting Linda and Phil at the Schaumburg Prairie Art Festival. Many wonderful artists were displaying beautiful examples of their talent and Schaumburg's magnificent municipal center park provided a lovely backdrop. I especially liked the partially buried lady statue...

Next I went to nearby Busse Woods for a quick bike ride. Being a holiday weekend and another gorgeous day, the trail was quite crowded, and being late morning, the temperature was already approaching 90 degrees, but seeing the elk for a second time in a week was a highlight...

Then it was over to Linda and Phil's for a barbeque. Here's Phil putting the chicken and turkey on the grill for the final few minutes after Linda had cooked the meat in the oven...

...and here's the turkey leg I enjoyed, a taste treat usually reserved for Taste of Chicago...

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Featuring Chuck's adventures in Nature, adventures with family and friends, adventures in music, and adventures with words.

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Adventure begins where your comfort zone ends.

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Nothing adventured, nothing gained!
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The older I get, the better I was!
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Like G. B. Shaw, I want to be all used up when I die!
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I want to die young at an advanced age.
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. - John Barrymore
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The closest place to heaven is being out in Nature.

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

--Henry David Thoreau

But in every walk with Nature, one receives far more than he seeks.

--John Muir

Now voyager, sail thou forth to seek and find.
--Walt Whitman

Every journey has to end, and the end of the journey is always called Home.
--Nelson DeMille

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.
--Susan Sontag

Twenty years from now, you will be disappointed more by the things you didn't do, than by the ones you did do. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
--Frank Lloyd Wright

It's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
-- Abraham Lincoln

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly understood; an inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
--G.K. Chesterton

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.
- -Chinese Proverb

The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
--Vance Havner
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