Peony time.

Chicago baseball looking pretty good White Sox 9, Cubs 8 (10 innings) 📷 from 🎥

Out and about walking tour with Brick of Chicago

Mention to one doorman, in passing, that you're starting a coven, and suddenly the whole building is looking at you askance! #sundaysentence from Go Gentle, Maria Semple

Porchlife, book life #booksky

Wow, Hyde Park Garden Fair! Amazing turnout. Thanks to a knowledgeable volunteer for helpful advice - an afternoon of planting projects ahead 🙏❤️

Ask your legislators to bring back middle housing to Illinois by passing the BUILD Plan! actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...

CPL invites Chicagoans to write Letters to America that share reflections, hopes and stories rooted in Chicago experiences. This initiative commemorates the 250th anniversary of the United States and creates space for civic reflection and storytelling. chi.gov/letterstoamerica

Our pupper is a little extra in general, including a little leash reactive in specific. Today she got a compliment from a passerby and it really meant so much ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Good morning, Chicago. Happy Friday!

OMG THEY ARE WINNERS (for now)

Evening rounds

Resting coyote

Tulip on a sea of forget-me-nots.

Lingering

Lovely day for a walk with the kids

Have had a library hold request In Transit for over a week and now I wonder where it is In Transit to 🤔📚❤️🙏

Lovely day with family ❤️ Happy Mother's Day!

Lake forever, perfect weather for now.

Out and about, things in bloom and a house I fancy

A month before the camp was destroyed, I distributed disposable cameras in Legion Park so residents could tell this story from their perspective. Below are the photos they took of the people, belongings, and spaces that made their encampment home. chicagoreader.com/city-life/so...

I found a very angry pickle at lunch today. 😠🥒

In Which We Find Ourselves in a Very Tight Place

Book / beverage pairing *Book is completely riveting

Whoo, whooooo

Tried to catch the rainbow and lightning photobombed my iPhone shot. #WXsky #ILwx

Happy Great Lakes Awareness Day, and thank you, Lake!

Beautiful, originally housed a Universalist congregation #UU #unitarianuniversalist

Stunning. I just got goosebumps.

“We can do and be so much for each other—but only when we see one another in our full humanity, not as statistics or problems, but as people who deserve to be alive in the world.” ― John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis #Sundaysentence Excellent book. Thought provoking and engaging.

Good morning, Chicago. What is the reasoning behind running our park fountains all season long? Seems wasteful (our residential water bill is fairly expensive, for example) but maybe I am missing something?

I began to think of F. Scott Fitzgerald, the only writer this country had ever produced who knew to the last dollar and cent the moral worth of money. - Diana Trilling, Mrs. Harris #sundaysentence (Yesterday's thrift store finds in conversation)

Out and about

It's a dazzler out there. Good morning, Chicago.

"Hellooo, everybody on the bus, it's a good day to be alive" - on the CTA #15, amen and happy Friday

For the architecture fan club

Telling stories from lived experience is essential to being human, as Philip Pullman has written about so beautifully. Do not let machines replace you. Tell your stories and read stories written by humans to young and old.

Good night, Chicago

I believe it was written in the Magna Carta.

Pretty sure it's a rule you must take a pic when you go to the post office

Happy first #independentbookstoreday to the lovely new River City Reading Room in Peoria, IL! #books #indiebookstores #booksky

Happy first #independentbookstoreday to the lovely new River City Reading Room in Peoria, IL! #books #indiebookstores #booksky

Good morning, Chicago

Stop and smell the lilacs 🌸 Good night, Chicago

#UrbanGaze #Chicago #scape #spring

Howard/Red Line N/B Yellow Line train derailed 100 ft outside of the station, service around Howard has been suspended, CFD is evacuating the train this is a Still & Box and EMS Plan I #Chicago #CTA #ChicagoScanner

#WhitmanWednesday 🌾 Earth Day 🌾 And who art thou! said I to the soft-falling shower, Which, strange to tell, gave me an answer, as here translated: I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain, Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea... - Walt Whitman

A different view, good morning

Everything blooming everywhere all at once #chicago

For all those concerned about Cocos crashing into bus shelters l raise you two Waymos seen driving on our streets