Sep
08
Montrose Beach 9/6/11
Oct
20
Sometimes You Just Have to Wonder…
An interesting article showed up in my news feed this morning from the Chicago Tribune. It seems that the Chicago Public School won’t let the produce, grown by the students in urban gardens as part of their curriculum, in the school cafeteria.
CPS says it is due to insecticides used by the students. Sounds like a good argument until you find out that the company that supplies all the healthy food in the schools is not held to the same standard.
While I’m not all that shocked by anything CPS does anymore, this has to rate pretty high on the stupid scale. Even for them.
Aug
18
Trains, Planes, Eyeballs, and Fountains Oh My!
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Geez, the Air Show was this weekend already! It seems summer just started and it’s already ending. At least it was cooler by the lake! This has been one hot summer.
We caught the train to go downtown and were pleasantly surprised to find it was an express and not the usual milk run. The train was packed though. I think a lot of folks who got on after us had to stand. Once downtown, we hopped on the el and headed north and after a quick stop at McDonalds, we headed for the beach.
We have been going to the Air Show for years and I always find it interesting in one way or another. I’m not really thrilled by the military planes but the stunt guys are pretty cool. Pretty nuts too. They do some crazy stuff.
This year however, the dragonflies caught my attention. There were hundreds of them. And they weren’t small ones either! Almost every picture Kieran and I made had a couple of them in the frame. Whenever there was a break in the action I would try making a picture of one. Not an easy task I gotta tell ya! Fun though. Then there was the kid digging a big hole in the sand. He spent a lot of time digging and when I went over to talk to him I saw that he was packing the sides so it wouldn’t collapse. Smart guy! North Avenue Beach was packed but it didn’t feel packed. If that makes sense. After the show there is usually a bigtime traffic jam at the bridge going over LSD and this year traffic slowed a little but never stopped. That was almost as nice as an express train! Read more…
Jun
13
Bluesfest 2010
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Friday we ventured downtown to check out the Blackhawks Rally with a couple million of our closest friends. After the confetti settled, we meandered around the Loop for awhile in hopes of finding a McDonalds that wasn’t bursting at the seams with hungry Hawks fans.
Found one!
After lunch, we headed east to Grant Park to check out my favorite festival of the year, Bluesfest! After spending 3 1/2 hours wandering around in the heat it was nice to sit down in the park and listen to some good music. Bluesfest has always signified the beginning of summer for me. The crowd was light but it was starting to fill up a little. It was pretty early as far as Bluesfest goes. Sorta nice though compared to the rally. Couldn’t move around much at all there, that’s for sure!
I didn’t make that many pictures this year. I was more interested in people pictures for the rally and the fest this year and kept my eyes open for potentially interesting frames at each venue. Bluesfest always has an ample supply of interesting people so it’s not that tough to find a few!
We ended up staying around for only a couple of hours but it was quality time, that’s for sure! I’m glad we stopped by on Friday. Saturday had to be a wet one.
I started uploading my pictures to Lightroom as soon as we got home. I pretty much filled 3 cards and Kieran filled 1. It was going to take a while!
Helloooooooo Summer!!!
