South Creek, Schaumburg

Last Friday night, cold returned. By Saturday morning, so had a few inches of snow. But it was an oddly tidy snowfall, since several days of spring-like warmth had raised the surface temperature of the streets, sidewalks and driveways, meaning that the snow didn't stick to them, but did elsewhere. It started to melt on Sunday, but on Saturday at least we had snowcover designed by an anal-retentive weather god: precisely covering the lawns and rooftops, but nothing else.

Because we all knew that the pleasant run of days would be over soon, I carved out a few hours on Friday to take a walk outside. Behind the Schaumburg municipal complex and the Prairie Center for the Fine Arts is a short path that more-or-less follows a small creek. I sign I'd never noticed before told me about the restoration of the banks along the creek by the replanting of native vegetation and the dismantling of a culvert some years back, and it also mentioned the name of creek, which I'd never heard before either: South Creek.

Not too much imagination in that, but never mind. (Or see this page for more interesting creek names.) This is South Creek just behind the municipal complex, spanned by a footbridge.

The path leads to the Chicago Athenaeum International Sculpture Park.