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Monthly Archives: September 2012
If clutter could talk
We do read, at 9591 Iris, we pick up a physical object called a book and we stare at it for hours, even days. Right now, the book in our hands is If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of … Continue reading
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Tagged clutter, domestic life, Great Lakes, If Walls Could Talk, Lucy Worsley
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I’m warning you
I have a fondness for stenciled signs. This swell example, one of my all-time favorites, is in a fieldhouse around here that is part of the Chicago Park District. Every time we happen to be in that fieldhouse, which is … Continue reading
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Tagged Chicago Park District, fieldhouse, no gum, no shoes, stencil, stencilled signs
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Great Lakes for sale?
This simple dock, photographed a couple of days ago, is on Skaneateles Lake, one of the Finger Lakes and one of the legacies to us all of the last Ice Age. Thanks to the retreating glaciers, we have these long … Continue reading
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Tagged Aral Sea, desertification, drier world, dust storms, Finger Lakes, Great Lakes, International Joint Commission, privatization, protect the Great Lakes, public water, selling freshwater, selling Great Lakes water, Skaneateles, the world's fresh water, water crisis
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Panic button Monday: Holy moley! It exists!
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
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Tagged elevator panic button, panic button, panic button Monday
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The most beautiful time of the year
This weekend we are traveling in upstate New York and, as we say in these United States, the leaves are starting to turn. The air has a crackle to it and we are happily putting on sweaters and jackets. This … Continue reading
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Tagged fall colors, Finger Lakes, leaves turning, sweater weather, upstate New York
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Can you vote? This question, and another
This is a picture of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who worked for more than 50 years, with great and stubborn dignity and a powerful intellect, for civil rights – most of all, for women’s right to vote. She was born in … Continue reading
Panic button Monday: Avondale welcomes you
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
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Tagged Avondale, Avondale welcomes you, bienvenidos a Avondale, Kedzie and Belmont, T. Rex graffito
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A line at the museum
This week we’ve been thinking a lot about the Chicago Teachers Union strike. Today, instead of putting up a picture of a striking schoolteacher, I thought I would illustrate this post with another kind of picture that also is about … Continue reading
Maybe your next car, all incognito, seen at the market
This is an experimental electric car, painted to conceal its manufacturer. If you are a very, very early adapter, you may already be driving a forerunner of this electric car. One of the interesting things about this car is that … Continue reading
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Tagged Detroit, Eastern Market, electric car, Ford Fusion Energi
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Panic button Monday: carnival
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
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Tagged church carnival, Logan Square, panic button Monday, Tilt-a-Whirl
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