Are your winter menus just a little too tried, tired and true? Or after a long cold winter, are you thoughts turning to the joys of spring gardening? For those in need of inspiration, The Friends of the Lake Forest Library are offering hundreds of gently used books at their third annual Cookbook Sale. The sale will be held Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 at Sunset Foods, 825 S. Waukegan Road.

Lake Forest resident Susan Mortensen is examining a slide of an old family photo on a Wednesday afternoon in the Lake Forest Library. Next to her sits a box full of hundreds of slides that her late father left her, some with photos from as early as the 1920s. Surprisingly, these are the slides she’s already picked out; there were thousands to choose from. Mortensen decided only to scan the photos that had family members in them.