I just read an article in an auto magazine about an ex-hotshot guy who was Director of the CIA at one point in his career. You know, the type who thinks that bombing Iran and Syria is the only way to go. What has this got to do with the Chicago Botanical Gardens? Though it [...]

Since today is April First (1st) aka April Fool’s Day, I thought I would fool my own self by posting a single photo. Happy Fool’s Day (to me)!

In September of last year I visited the Chicago Botanical Gardens with a bunch of friends, not for the first time. This time I managed to take a few pictures. I don’t know why they’re called the Chicago Botanical Gardens. The only relationship they seem to have with Chicago is that they’re both in the [...]

Whenever I hear about the Mississippi River, I think of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn floating down the mighty river on their makeshift raft. Oh how I miss the days of my childhood when I sat down with ol’ Mark Twain and devoured every word he wrote. Incidentally Mark Twain is one of the powerful [...]

Millennium Park was only one of my destinations that evening. I got it into my head that I must walk all the way to the Planetarium and take a panoramic shot of the Chicago downtown skyline at sunset. The best way I could get there was walking along the lake shore. Unfortunately it wasn’t that [...]