Sunday Funnies: Literal Translation

This week's bad joke (probably my new favorite one too):


A priest, a rabbi, and a Muslim walk into to a bar.  The bar tender says, what is this, a joke?

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

The Entropy Project

It could be I've become more keenly aware that time marches on...that or I just find as time breaks down the subject becomes more fascinating...a few from The Entropy Project (on going).

Safe Harbor & The Dream City

It's not what I knew first...it's not the ocean...but somehow I find comfort standing at the harbor looking towards the lake and the city so peaceful.

 "Chicago Breaking"

 "Kind of Blue"

 "Fire & Ice"

"Mood Indigo"

June Weddings & Getting Reacquainting

As friend, whose granddaughter is having some kind of blessing of wedding vows ceremony next month, asked me to pull together photographs to choose from as a gift...remember folks, art is always an appropriate gift.  Anyway, it gave me a chance to look through the ol' library and reacquaint myself with some personal goodies:

 "The Lovers"

 "Magic Pebbles"

"Two 10's On Broadway"

Healy & Millet Stained Glass Dome (Iris)

Grand Army of Republic rotunda/Chicago Cultural Center

Midwest Mountains

I'm pretty sure it was Garrison Keillor who referred to clouds in the Midwest as the Midwest Mountains.  It's her clouds, I find, to be Illinois' best feature.  

The Nature of Old Things

Which we usually find the most interesting...