Misc. Shots & One Update

Update:  The professor of poetry and NT Greek a few days after our late breakfast at the same place.  

While Out & 'Aboot'

 'Queue The Grind'

 'Inside For Out'

(Glenn's Diner 

1820 W Montrose Ave Chicago IL 60613)

 'Dubble Bubble Out'

(found lying in the dust at park baseball field)

'Big Mouth Rupert'

People At Work

Mothers & Fathers

I know I've posted one of these rather recently, but felt it needed to be included in this post. 

'Last Moment Before Shelter'

Homeless family making their way to evening check-in.

'The Best Seat'

'City of Big Shoulders I & II'

with memories of sitting on my father's shoulders.

Little Faces

WHITE Is A Color Too!

Mood & Tone

These are personal favorites for no other explainable reason other than I like their mood and tone.

 'Red chair, Green Buddha'

 'Natural Light on Fake Plant'

 'Solitude'

 'Window Dressing In Stitches'

'Butt On In'

(The Chicago icon, Billy Goat Tavern.  No photos inside, but through the door window is fine.)

Sunday Funnies: It's Your Fault Mr. Larson!

The Christmas Santa came bringing our first collection of Gary Larson's twisted Far Side cartoons was the best Christmas ever!  Larson retired but a whole generation continues to be influenced by his humor...

Gary Larson's original idea...

Inspired by Larson's original...

This week's bad joke:


The first inhabitants in North America arrived after they got their BEARIN STRAIT! (from Pretty Good Jokes www.prairiehome.publicradio.org)

Those Moody Blues

While I was looking through photographs for this color post, I found it a little ironic I had so many shots with blue the central color...compensating for the lack of the hue in nature...possibly...

'Harring In Pieces'

' Waiting Memorial'

'Jacob's Ladder'

'Warm Wacker, Cool Chicago'

Late Lament


Breathe deep the gathering gloom
Watch lights fade from every room
Bedsitter people look back and lament
Another day's useless energy spent


Impassioned lovers wrestles as one
Lonely man cries for love and has none
New mother picks up and suckles her son
Senior citizens wish they were young


Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is grey and yellow white
But we decided which is right 
And which is an illusion?
~Graeme Edge from the song Nights in White Satin

Things Looking Up

When it comes to finding little surprises in Chicago, look up...she will not fail you.

 James R Thompson Illinois Building*

*Architecture buffs find the Thompson Building marvelous...I suppose...even tho' I find it another example of tacky 70's design...but why I've included it in this post is because it's the first intentional lens flare I've captured...something I do enjoy creating.

Bringing Up Baby...

...is a Howard Hawk's romantic comedy in which "gay" is used in reference to a homosexual in a movie for the first time.  That being said, here are a few shots of the floats...well more like what's happening on the floats...from yesterday's Pride Parade...more will be posted later in the week...or two...eventually...

 Local news anchor...and thus the 

main stream media remains it's neutral color