Punching Out

When I see this view, it means my work day is over and I can ride home:

When I took this, it was still fairly warm out, but there was a chill in the air and it wasn't long before storms came. I liked the patriotic colors in the sky--warm red where the setting sun hit the clouds, the white of clouds higher up, the deep blue of the clear sky--an auspicious beginning to Memorial Day weekend.

Photography Month No-No

Yesterday Jesus and I went downtown(ish)--we walked around River North, a neighborhood just north of the river and The Loop. It's a beautiful area: skyscrapers, the Riverwalk, Michigan Ave, and I wish I could show you some of the fun sights we saw (Merchandise Mart, Tribune Tower, Marina City, Rock N Roll McDonald's) or the cool restaurant we ate at (Portillo's/Barnelli's), but I FORGOT MY CAMERA. The one thing I should always bring with me, at least for this month, I left at home. I apologize, dear readers and viewers of my pictures. Let me make it up to you with this:

Picture Frame Crafts

If you know me, you know I love a good picture frame. I may not have a picture to frame, but someday I will. Or not...but I will re-purpose it somehow! This week I took two matching frames (a rare find at the thrift store, where about 97% of my many, many frames come from) and used some magazine cutouts to make personalized white boards.

Summer Survival

You don't survive summer in the Naw without wind power and freeze pops. New this year: a window AC unit that effectively cools the area up to and no further than two feet away from itself.

The best three friends that anyone could have.

This guy's got lots of work to do.

Nail Art

Comfort Food

Yes. I took pictures of food. I actually have a "food" setting on my new camera, so I tested it out. Food pics rival selfies in our world of cameras-on-everything, but if We Are What We Eat, then food pics are just another form of selfie, no? With that logic, I am cozy and fattening and welcome at all gatherings.

chopped carrots for homemade coleslaw

bbq tofu

I belong in the South.

Happy Friday!

Allergies

There you are...allergies.

I see you. Barely, because I am now sneezing.

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