BELVIDERE, Ill. (WIFR) – Brian Hele pokes his walking stick toward a patch of wildflowers.
“The shooting stars are just starting,” he reports to five fellow nature lovers following him. At the stick’s end, the white flowers appear like diving birds with outstretched wings – tiny as their spring debut begins.
On Sunday, Hele strolls through the Spencer Conservation Area in Belvidere. Although he leads a small group, more than 70,000 join him around the world for 2025’s City Nature Challenge…