Wild Onion Play

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Decolonize nature play around Zhigaagoong

Entrance to a Nature Play area at a forest preserve in the Wild Onion City. A living archway of willow boughs welcomes children and kinfolk down a flagstone path. Beyond the handcrafted fence a whimsical play-space can be made out through the bare trees surrounding the yard. A sign beside the entrance gives tips on mindful uses of the space with the word “Welcome” legible from this distance, and two people one tall and one small illustrated on said sign.
A photo of a large lump of deer scat on the prairie floor; grass and oak leaves. A hand holds up a booklet beside it open to a page with an illustration closely resembling the scat that reads: White-tailed Deer, Odocoileus virginianus Winter [illustration of pellet scat] D 08-1.3 cm L 13-4 cm Preferred browse Acorns (espoilly white oak), cedar, Hemlock Scat: Pellets soft, compressed: stick together in clumps or short, thick sections; found in forage areas. Summer [illustration of lump scat similar to one shown above] Preferred browse: tender young leaves and branches of hardwoods, saplings; non-woody plants. Scat: smooth exicrior, saw dusty when broken apart; found in loose piles in forage areas or along trails. Range: Throughout
An image of a silky petaled crocus emerging from crisp dry leaf-litter and a bed of vinca vines. The tip of the aubergine purple bud glistens in the bright morning sunlight. Three leaf-spikes have emerged with this bud. Slightly behind ki two more clusters of leafs anticipate more flowers soon to emerge. Behind it all brick buildings, a wrought-iron fence and a small ornamental river birch tree trunk elucidate the context of this British-style urban flower garden.
A clump of chive grass or wild chives emerge from the loosened till of the spring thaw. Leaf skeletons cover the ground, in the distance through the thicket of trees the gray sky turns blue.
an up close photo of wild nodding onion sprouts emerging from beneath late-winter detritus and moss in a restored prairie.