Seeing his shadow on a sunny morning, Windy City Woodie will be frightened, and he'll return to the burrow, constructed by Chicago Botanic Gardens, to sleep through six more weeks of winter weather. But a cloudy day will please him. He will feel safe and will stay out to play, knowing that spring is on the way.
Windy City Woodie is the 2005 Chicago Flower and Garden Show's official weather forecaster. FGS Advisory Board Member Bob Haisman, also president of Oak Park River Forest Garden Club, serves as Woodie's spokesman. Thousands of gardeners are eagerly awaiting an early spring and hoping that Woodie will make that prediction.
