Pour Le Ballon rouge, avec amour...

I saw the 1957 French classic during my second time around at YMCA swim camp when I was 4...I've been enchanted ever since...I'm always on the lookout for lone balloons, they always manage to make me smile and wonder if they're on their way to meet an old friend...our take on the solitary balloon and then a clip from the wonderful original!

YELLOW Mellow?

 "Big Bertha's Joint"

 "Chicago Loop"

"Lemon Heads"

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

To & Fro: What I See

I enjoy living in a large city, because 1.) there's all kinds of things hidden both in lost corners and in plain sight; and 2.) the smallest shift of lens or posture you wouldn't believe it's a photo taken in it...

 Waiting

 Rogue Iris

 The Fool's Errand

 From The Valley

 It Happens

Little Ladies