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In which we visit poets
Today we took part in Open House Chicago, the annual event sponsored by the Chicago Architecture Foundation that allows any member of the public behind-the-scenes access to ordinarily private spaces. Of all the places we saw today, A#1 was the … Continue reading
All in this together
I just love living here. This is downtown Chicago, at the corner of Michigan and Washington, across from wonderful Millennium Park. We were on our way to a night-time performance in the park – possibly opera related? Walking here through … Continue reading
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Tagged all in this together, downtown Chicago, Loop, Millennium Park
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My morning drive
I don’t drive very much. Here in Chicago, I can get around with mass transit or on foot. We run around and do errands once or twice a week, and take the occasional road trip, but for the most part … Continue reading
Panic button Monday loves a parade
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
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Tagged Dance Parade, panic button, panic button Monday, parade
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A visit to Montrose Harbor
PTO is always purpose driven here at 9591iris. Someone has to go to the doctor or is in the hospital, or someone needs help moving, except 1,000 miles away, or we are creating a special dinner for the extended family … Continue reading
There’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear
Detroit is busting out in beautiful graffiti, like this glorious example above stretching around the old Wayne Foundry & Stamping plant. Something is trying to happen in Detroit, and art is trying to tell us about it. Perhaps the wildest … Continue reading
Panic button Monday visits Chicago’s Magic Mushroom Forest
Every time I push the panic button, this shows up.
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Tagged Avondale, Chicago, lawn decor, Magic Mushroom Forest, panic button, panic button Monday
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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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