Illustration of an owl in safe solar viewing glasses. Eclipse in the background.

Two Eclipse Viewing Parties

All of Centerville-Washington Park District (CWPD) is inside the path of totality during the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. We are hosting two viewing parties! Family Fun Event Forest Field Park, 2100 E Centerville Station Rd. 1:30 – 3:30…

Two spring beauties and a bee

Beauty and the Bees

Spring beauties, Claytonia virginica, are among the earliest blooming of our so-called “spring ephemerals,” the woodland wildflowers that bloom in succession between March and May. Spring beauties survive the winter as a mini-potato-like tuberous root that provides the plant with…