Labels: flowers, summer

Labels: apartment, chicago, pigeon, summer

It's amazing to me that this could go from so icy and barren to the verdant canopy it is today.

Labels: midway, summer, uchicago

A recent impromptu dinner party included making homemade pasta, which turned out fantastically! My bicycle basket made the perfect drying rack.

Labels: chicago, dinner party, homemade pasta, summer

Not nearly as nice as the ocean, but a good substitute nonetheless.

Labels: beach, chicago, the lake

Ikats, from the Victoria an Albert Color Books Series

Metalcrafts of Central Asia, by Ken Teague

Block Printing on Fabrics, by Florence Harvey Pettit

Labels: books, inspiration, libraries

The fog was so thick last night you could barely see across the street, let alone across the midway. This picture doesn't even begin to show just how dense it was!

Labels: chicago, fog, midway, night, uchicago

Downtown Chicago, as seen at night from a CTA Pink line station overpass.

Labels: chicago, downtown, night

Last Thursday I was lucky enough to go on a house trip and attend a taping of Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! the NPR news quiz recorded in downtown Chicago. So interesting to put faces to the radio voices I listen to every week! We gleefully roamed the stage after listening to the show, and got to meet all of the weeks participants. Note Roy Blount Jr in the background!

Labels: downtown, house trip, npr, wait wait...don't tell me, winter

Some new additions to the vegetation in my room--a lovely pot of daffodils and a white hyacinth. Looking forward to spring!

Labels: dorm, flowers, plants, spring