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Polaroid scan. A red metal sculpture against a blue sky with an empty mall parking lot in the background. • Polaroid SLR-680 SE • Polaroid Color 600

"Ode" by Alexander Liberman - Northbrook, Illinois

📸 Art Sinsabaugh, 1966

Bucktown, Chicago

Photo of trees in Chicago’s Welles Park.

Afternoon constitutional. Welles Park #chicago #trees

A mangrove making a tiny lagoon in the middle of a greenhouse pond packed with ferns. A turtle is sunning on a stone just behind it, its head looking up at the greenery. Koi are swimming everywhere in the pond.

Also in the Fern Room, two turtles are facing each other, sunning like pros, stretched out all the way to their pointy claws. One's tail is curled. Again, ferns everywhere.

The preceding two scenes in my sketchbook: in gouache the turtle and mangrove tree with koi (but instead two of the HUGE koi that weren't in my photo, but were swimming everywhere), and then in black pen the two turtles, with just some gouache ferns painted in around them.

offline today (went to Garfield Park Conservatory in Chicago); drew some toitles

“Pollinator Gardens” for bees and butterflies are a gateway drug. What you really want is a wildlife garden. Build a habitat for bunnies and songbirds and skunks and raccoons, get the really cool stuff like foxes and hawks

Robbie House. Frank Lloyd Wright - 1910

For a European, the combination of beach and skyscrapers feels unique.
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Seed swap and plant exchange Sat. 3/28 10-2 at Dan Ryan Woods Pavilion, 87th & Western. Native plant presentations. Bring mug for warm beverages. Email southzoneprogram@cookcountyil.gov or call 708-771-9632 for more info.

Fun for gardeners - seed swap coming up at Dan Ryan Woods on Sat. 3/28. #Chicago

The northern terminus of the North Shore Channel Terminal.

On the NU campus looking south toward Chicago.

On the campus of NU, looking south toward Chicago.

At Brothers K Coffeehouse, Main at Hinman, in Evanston.

Our friend Dennis (Deutsch-Nederlander) crashed his bike (a Canyon) bad on wet cobblestones in Speyer (DE) earlier this winter, so he’s back in Chicago for a while to have his dental work done. We had a lovely bike ride with him up to Evanston to see his niece and sit in a cafe. #chicago #bikechi

Two-story white stucco Craftsman bungalow with a red tile roof. It has a wide, deep porch with a gentling sloping gable roof with brackets across the front. The main house has a side-facing gable with a front-facing peaked dormer popping out of the center.

626 Washington Blvd., Oak Park, Illinois. Built in 1911, A. F. Rusy, architect.

Spring came early as if in apology for the fierce winter...

For a few days in spring and fall Chicago seems almost fit for human habitation.

- Sam Greenlee, The Spook Who Sat By The Door

#sundaysentence #booksky #books

Why Lake Michigan and Lake Huron Are Technically One Lake Explore the science behind Lake Michigan-Huron: two basins at the same elevation, connected by the Straits of Mackinac, forming one vast freshwater lake.

If you don’t know, you do now
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A black-and-white historical photo taken on November 13, 1902, shows a horse-drawn carriage crossing a damaged wooden bridge. Two people sit in the carriage, and there are stacks of lumber and a railroad car in the background. The bridge surface is uneven, with broken boards and scattered bricks in the foreground. Smoke or fog is visible in the distance.

📷 A view to the east showing conditions of the northern approach to the Loomis Street bridge over the South Branch of the Chicago River on November 13, 1902.

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Photograph. A tall brick building illuminated by flood lighting from the asphalt parking lot. Facade has an overhang with square columns, rounded arch tops, glass backing, and signage for Macy's department store. String lighting lines the rooftop.

Arches

Macy's, Hawthorn Center - Vernon Hills, Illinois
#mall #retail #architecture #night #IL #photography

Magnificent Mile festive with lights, Hancock lit blue and green

The magnificence continues

Red-tailed hawk flying form right to left photographed from below. You can see a bulging throat (crop) indicating it has recently eaten a big meal and it has an entire muskrat grasped in one claw.

Red-tailed Hawk with full crop and a Muskrat to go. River Park, Chicago. It was flying towards another hawk that circling in the distance while being harassed by a crow.
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#Birds #Hawks #Raptors

Color photo, taken during sunrise. We're standing in the middle of a two-lane US highway, looking down the median toward the horizon. Yellow solid/dotted lines shoot down the road, which is mostly black and empty. At the end, we see a pair of headlights pointed our direction. Along the side, trees in silhouette are almost black. The sky above is peach/pink near the horizon, just fading to blue-violet near the top of the image.

LaPorte County, #Indiana #photography

Fragile beginning. Ulmus americana, American Elm.

A small pencil sketch of a finch perched on a person’s hand.

In the face of it all, I’ll just share some art from our house today. This sketch, “Tame Finch,” is by Alice Elizabeth Soper (1905–1990).

A photo of a stately two story Italianate brick house with an elaborate green and yellow painted cornice, carved stone lintels, and a big brick and iron fence around it on a corner lot. A much more recent single-story ranch house sits next door.

I am so pleased to find out that the DuPont-Whitehouse House (Oscar Cobb, 1875) has finally gotten the substantial restoration that it deserves after being long neglected and often vacant.

Built for the superintendent of a DuPont gunpowder factory at 36th & Western, it was later moved a block away.

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A final visit to Lurie Garden before it closes on Monday through early July for repairs.
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White-breasted Nuthatches sharing their bounty #birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth, your bird captures you like best from February, the Alt theme is #Pigeons&Doves #birds Mouning Doves, Pigeons being fed by elderly man at Daley Plaza, Chicago

Chicago on the verge of spring 📸 #photography

Double exposures in nature help me create images as I feel it to be. #photography #nature #art #fineart

Green and pink cottages and white high rises in Old Town

Chicago skyline from the Shedd aquarium

Me looking toward the skyline at 31st St beach

Sunset at Sherman Park

Some gorgeous bike rides this month! Unreal that I’m almost hitting my monthly mileage goal that I set for April to November…in February lol.

Two 1.5-story brick cottages. The one on the left has a Dutch gable roof. The facade is clad in brick in various shades of gray. There is an arched window in the gable with two small rectancgular windows on either side. There are crowned with a stone arch with a central medallion. The house on the right is red brick with a classic gable roof. The windows in the gable are similar to those on the house next door, although the stone trim has been painted white.

Two store brick residence or light orange brick. There are small arched windows in the gable and three larger arched windows on the second floor. There are all trimmed with red brick arches and there are stripes of red brick in the very peak of the gable. There is a Greek-style portico, featuring a pediment and two Ionic columns, painted white.

1.5-story orange brick cottage with a gable roof. All of the trim, the stairs, and the portico are painted maroon. There is a cornice with brackets and dentils running along the gable.

Brick cottages in Lawndale and Little Village, Chicago.