http://cedarlakepark.org/blog Musings about Cedar Lake Park Sat, 10 Apr 2010 00:17:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_66" align="alignnone" width="519" caption="The new home of the Twins, with north towards the top/right."][/caption] The start of a new era in baseball in Minnesota is a few days away.  Fans will arrive at the new outdoor stadium in a variety of ways, including by bike.  Many will come via the ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=67 In 1996,  six native Red Cedar trees were planted with great ceremony in the Heart of the Park.  The next year, volunteers planted 60 more. The idea of the memorial Cedar Grove was to honor people by allowing their loved ones to purchase a tree.  Each tree represented the honoring ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=55 [caption id="attachment_47" align="alignnone" width="1024" caption="muskrat house"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_48" align="alignnone" width="1024" caption="nuthatch into the tree"][/caption] http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=35 skiers, snowshoers, and anyone who likes the deep whiteness of a fresh snowfall will be delighted over the next few days when upwards of 20" of fresh snow will fall onto the land and water of cedar lake park. http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=22 The sun will be rising at its southernmost point of the year solstice morning Dec 21. Its path is marked in alignment with the center of the double-spiraled Cedar Grove. This is the Heart of the Park. Here there is a henge, where the cardinal directions and ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=18 [caption id="attachment_14" align="alignnone" width="600" caption="Cedar Lake Trail west "][/caption] http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=15 Prairie Update: The gorgeous Orange Butterfly weed is still in bloom, but is just about to go to seed. Other bloomers are Prairie coneflowers (black cone with yellow droopy leaves), Black-eyed Susans (yellow), Monarda or Bee balm or Wild bergamot (lavender pincushion-like flowers), Tufted fleabane (smail white flowers with a ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=12 Yes, we absolutely do.  All you have to do is look into areas where there is lots of it -- and you'll see that soon there will be NOTHING else!  It is particularly bad along your street and in the parkland across from the entrance to Hidden Beach. What makes invasives "invasive" is ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=10 Wildflowers Among the many flowers visible now, yellow and purple Clover, and white Yarrow, to name a few, none are more spectacular then the orange Butterfly Weed. Clumps of these native-species plants have been lovingly spread throughout the prairie over the last 15 years and the effect is dramatic. Please enjoy, ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=8 It was a wonderful day to be on Cedar Lake. Putting my kayak in at the Isles-Cedar Canal because there is plenty of parking, I paddled north and west through the shady channel. There were quite a few other kayaks and canoes going in both directions. The ... http://cedarlakepark.org/blog/?p=7