"2-page spread of watercolor and ink sketches interspersed with handwritten notes. Left page: May 31, 2021, 70 degrees, cloudy and breezy, IL Beach St Park Nature Preserve (Dune trail), saw the trifecta of puccoons- hairy, hoary and fringed! Also visited the prairie at Hosah Park- saw the 8-spotted forester moth and sketched the coreopsis. Just as we left IL beach, we saw the Indian Paintbrush and ended the day with a bald eagle flyover! Sketch has overlapping ink drawings with painted flowers-prairie phlox (pink), coreopsis (deep yellow- orange), lupine (blue-purple), the three puccoons (yellow, lemon yellow, yellow orange) and a blue-eyed grass. A black and white spotted moth with orange pantaloons is near the bottom.
Right page: flowers continue with scarlet Indian paintbrush, pale brown alum root with a damselfly on the stem, and 3 stalks of purple-blue spiderworts with leaves arching in many directions. A brown and yellow skipper is in the center. Notes: June 1, 2021, Schulenberg Prairie, 72, sunny and warm, saw black and tiger swallowtails, monarch, pearl crescents, Hobomark skipper, E.forktail damselflies ovipositing in Willowbrook creek, common green darner, and whitetails
June 3, 2021 75 degrees and warm, Springbrook Prairie, bullfrogs are croaking, red-wing blackbirds singing, B.impatiens on spiderwort, ponds and streams are very low- almost dry. "
