Finding Nature

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On Saturday, I did what I had planned to do for a very long time: I took Metra to Chicago Botanic Garden. I love the Botanic Garden, and I often went there when I lived in Palatine, but taking public transport there appeared to be not as easy as I initially thought.
There is a bus from Howard, but it takes a relatively long time and does not run on Sundays. And in any case, I feel extremely dizzy when I ride on a bus for a long time. As for Metra, I knew that I would need to walk fon the station to the Botanic Garden, and I could not decide whether I should take a bike with me or walk, and ended up not going at all.
Finally, I decided to choose a day when I would go, and that day was July 1.
I took a train from Ogilvie after my escorting shift; it was drizzling most of the day, but didn’t pore, so I kept walking.
The most exciting part, however, was that I found the Forest Preserve! While it takes more than twenty minutes to get to the garden entrance, the Forest Preserve is right there, you get off the train, and here you are!

The pleasure of walking the trail in the woods was even more than seeing the familiar sites of the Botanic Garden (although the Garden was great!)

Japanese garden:


Somebody planned a wedding in the Rose Garden, and there were folding tables and the organizer nervously looking at the forecast and the raindrops, and I do not know how it all ended. However, although I visited several Rose Gardens in the past couple of years, our’s it the best!


And a nice membership bonus – now, when you are a member, you do not need to pay even a reduced fee to see the model trains.

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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2 thoughts on “Finding Nature”

  1. The 213 bus ride is surprisingly pleasant, after it leaves downtown Evanston, it goes along Green Bay road. It is amazing in September-October, you can see all the beautiful golden trees from a slightly higher position. I was surprised that it makes a difference, but it really does:) If you are sure you’ll get dizzy, you can get off Metra in Glencoe and take the same bus from there, it is a short ride. The walk to the Garden entrance from Braeside is OK, but not the best.

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  2. Honestly, it’s purely a question of saving time: the train and bus schedules are not perfectly in sync, and since I do not mind walking and I walk really fast, it’s just easier to be dependent on just one mode of transportation. But I will think about the fall foliage, I promise!

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