Most Recent Around Town(s)
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Most Recent Around Town(s) Reflective Sunset Crossing over the river on the Wabash bridge.Whatever Chicago is or isn't, it's constantly photogenic. May 12, 2017
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204035324Sorry [snicker] Hey Donald, your overcompensation still fails -- Sears/Willis is still bigger than Trump. (And I have no doubt Richard Warren Sears's hands were a whole lot bigger than yours too.) (And probably Willis's too, whoever he is.)
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203990403Mornin' Pre dawn ice is even colder. At the Deerfield Metra station, 5:15 am, December 13, 2016.
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203448489Life Imitating Sticker A coworker told me her son wanted her to give one of his beloved stickers to "her boss," and I could choose from a sheet of options. I e-mailed them this pic as a Thank You. October 25, 2016.
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203183194Beaming Down It looks like light radiating up, but the sun was setting on the opposite horizon, shining on the clouds which sent light down from above, on the road to Cleveland on 80/90, October 21, 2016.
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203155954Early Rising My Cleveland pre-dawn walk takes me straight through a country club a mile from our apartment, a nice and mellow way to start the day, simultaneously greeting the groundskeepers and the dawn, October 9, 2016.
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203121076Coming and Going The Chicago North Branch Trail bridge over the railroad tracks, October 15, 2016.
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203116822Finally Fall The first autumn colors emerge on the Chicago North Branch Trail, October 15, 2016.
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203116821Mounds Deerfield Road construction continues, October 10, 2016.
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203078516Clear and Cloudy Today's view from my desk chair, different weather for different buildings, October 6, 2016.
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203055218Man On The Street Do these 'phones make my head look fat? Want to look my best under a streetlight at 5:55am walking to the train station because you never know when you might bump into Scarlett Johansson. September 27, 2016.
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202965080Moonshadows A full moon shadow portrait, May 20, 2016. From left: Me, Karen, Brian, Linda.
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201849443Blinding Shadows Walking East on Madison into the morning sun, September 2, 2016, 7:30am.
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202568506Sunshadows About-to-be Beloit College graduates line up on a sunny Sunday, May 15, 2016.
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201916479Boats and Boats Lake Erie boaters, September 25, 2016.
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202947237Framed A wire frame for the pre-dawn moon, September 25, 2016
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202947241Temple of Doom September 20, 2016.
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202947217Storm Flags The weather was gorgeous 20 minutes ago, and now it's all sunny and clear -- yuch. September 7, 2016.
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202622306Cleveland's Cloud's September 11, 2016.
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202689086Almost Risen Crossing the Madison Street bridge eastbound at 6:23, fourteen minutes before the sun showed up, September 21, 2016.
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202863952Seating Available No Waiting From the (indoor) waiting room of the Twinsburg, Ohio, Cleveland Clinic branch, February 23, 2015.
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197581461Nightime From the Piper's Alley parking garage roof at North and Wells, March 27, 2015, 10:30pm.
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197944685Rush Hour Rush Commuters racing storm clouds across the Madison bridge to Union Station June 8, 2015.
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198755282Overpassing Summerfest Interstate 794 overpass in Milwaukee at evening's end after the Summerfest throngs had fled, June 26, 2015.
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198991596A View from Royko's Grove Though there's no plaque or sign, the grassy spot at the end of Montrose Point, a place Dad loved, was officially named "Royko's Grove" by the city posthumously in honor of him, spearheaded by his sister, my late Aunt Eleanor. Here's how it looked on what would have been Dad's 83rd birthday, September 19, 2015.
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199765450Wedding Party As seen from the stoplight at Columbus and Monroe, September 19, 2015.
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199765451In It Together A father and son at the Bulls/Pistons preseason game, October 14, 2015 (Bulls got creamed), and from the message on the front of Dad's t-shirt, we know that his lack of hair is in support of his son's chemo-induced bald noggin. Hoping he gets through it quickly, and that they were Pistons fans.
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199992043Dry Docked The massive junkyard next to the Metra tracks is a vast sea of junked cars, and one boat. October 16, 2015.
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200025129Eastbound Heading for Cleveland on 80/90 at sunset November 13, 2015.
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200267060Cleveland in December After finding and driving by the house from "A Christmas Story," a big, jammed tourist attraction, we toured Cleveland's back yard, December 12, 2015.
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200502473Miro Bird A sparrow takes a break on Miro's "The Sun, The Moon and One Star (Miro's Chicago)" which sits next to my office building's front door. December 23, 2015.
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200584424Office Moon My window lunar view, January 20, 2016.
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200819727Donald-Critter in the Wild I spotted him from my office window, and decided to venture down for a closer look, while keeping a safe distance so as to avoid startling or provoking him, March 17, 2016.
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201310385Consolation The booby prize for Cleveland's April blizzard are scenes like this on Ben's street, April 9, 2016.
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201486581Industrial Vista I'm weirdly attracted to scenes like this one, which makes Cleveland a great city for me since there's plenty of them. Funny that this is the same neighborhood as one of Cleveland's big tourist attractions (lines for tours even in April, forget Christmastime), the house from the movie, "A Christmas Story," which, when you see it, the house tucked into a dead-end in a grungy neighborhood, you have to wonder how the movie's location scouts ever found the place and decided it was "right." And yep, the leg lamp ("major award") proudly shines in the front window. April 23, 2016.
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201613163Aqua Son of a freaking whatever, I am at an Autism benefit tonight for Have Dreams, great organization, but I finally have a chance to look over this building I have loved since I saw a documentary about it (Jeanne Gang's Aqua), and the weather is so terrible, it's covered in clouds. Behold, the Aqua building, in Chicago. Or at least, half of it. April 30, 2016.
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201691976Into the Fog Waiting for the train to pick us up on a foggy morning, May 11, 2016, 6:40AM, Deerfield Station. Everyone's facing south because the daily Milwaukee-bound Amtrak train, still clouded in the mists, is about to zoom by, tweaking our internal little kids.
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201754845Lake Fork Lake Fork, Texas, doing a nice Tahiti impression just after sunrise, May 22, 2016.
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201849442Yeah, yeah, cloud pictures from airplanes...almost as wonderful as pictures of trees. But what the heck. I liked being in between high cirrus and stormy low cumulus over Lake Michigan in the early evening, July 17, 2016.
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202237154Fun's Over 7:25 AM on the Monday after the holidays, fellow commuters line up to get off and face it, January 4, 2016.
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200674079No Hurry At the end of the Metra car is a step up. My routine is to stand at the end of the car near the end of the ride and wait the several minutes it takes for my fellow commuters to inch out until the next-to-last person is exiting before walking to the exit since I hate waiting in lines. This is one of my views. July 27, 2016.
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202446067Prefered Dork Footwear Yes, I'm afraid they are my favorite footwear. Paradoxically, they are the perfect footwear for days when you are going to be under a downpour. Yes, they and your socks get soaked, but that would by the case with any shoes. But they dry immediately, and their open-air design allows the socks to dry by lunchtime -- far quicker than with anything else besides nothing at all. However, I do have to add as a warning -- only relatively new pairs should be worn if walking on any wet surface. When the underside wears down, on wet surfaces they imitate ice on ice. My backside has learned this the hard way. August 18, 2016.
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202454415Modern Life September 5, 2016
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202594566Express Lane to Salvation If you've spent much time in downtown Chicago over the past 30+ years, chances are you've encountered this dude enthusiastically doing his and the good Lord's thing, as he was this time on Michigan Avenue. And if you stop to talk with him, get ready for an onslaught of questions and directions on getting in the express lane to heaven. (He doesn't put it that way, but I'm thinking his positioning is not a coincidence -- maybe divine guidance?) May 12, 2016
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204035327Bean Dance A Beanified (or Cloud Gateified?) view of a dance-off at the Millennium Park SummerDance Celebration, August 26, 2017.
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204383925Bridge Curve A chunk of the BP Pedestrian Bridge at Millennium Park, some fine Frank Gehry for a Saturday afternoon stroll, August 26, 2017.
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204383926Dancing Circles Bulgarian circle dance at the Millennium park SummerDance Celebration this past weekend -- boogie down you wild Bulgarians! Or Bulgarian wannabes! August 26, 2017
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204383927Fountain Face I think Karen was conducting the Crown Fountain (aka Face Fountain) for her mom at Millennium Park, August 26, 2017.
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204383928Bikes at the Falls Chagrin Falls and bikers don't seem to go together, but they did this weekend, August 20, 2017.
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204383929Everything but the Match A bonfire that never happened at Ohio's Headlands Beach State Park, August 20, 2017.
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204383930Lighted Lights Dearborn and LaSalle on the way to the train a moment before the sun came around the corner to blind me and my fellow walkers, August 23, 2017.
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204383931Picturesque Has any city ever gotten more touristy bang for the buck than Cleveland dropping a few signs around? This one is in Edgewater Park, situated so the backdrop is Cleveland's skyline, and year round, there is ALWAYS somebody taking a pic something like this. Hey, I guess that includes me now (except for facing the wrong way). July 15, 2017
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204383952Pre-Dawning Looking east on Madison at Wacker at 6:22 this morning and the daylight instead of darkness means spring is inching closer. February 26, 2018.
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