"The Nurse Trees" by Chicago #artist Sarah Hicks. 🍄 Based on the concept of a "nurse log" (a fallen tree that becomes a nursery for new life, covered in organisms like fungi, moss, and seedlings), these decommissioned wooden utility poles have been #PublicArt #Art #Design #Architecture #Photography

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English artist Vanessa Bell’s book cover designs for (her sister) Virginia Woolf’s texts (1920s-30s) #womensart

Dorothee Wenz, contemporary ceramics artist #Womensart

This is sweetly funny

A lot of attention is paid to craft traditions in Western Europe and North America, such as handsewn Hermes leather goods and bespoke Savile Row suits. But the uneven focus leads some to believe that things made outside of these places are low quality. This is not true. 🧵

I’m on the Thornton Quarry tour! Here’s a panorama of the view from an overlook.

I wonder if there is a word to describe this feeling? #BookSky

Listen to our soft Irish rain patter down on leaves

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

The Independence Library has a little station where you can write down and shred your worries.

Foundation of the Lexington Theater poking through the prairie, 63rd near Woodlawn

Someone is flying a kite on the Jackson blvd bridge.

That this is happening as of right is a policy failure.

Happening now in Albany Park: Protesters are gathering in the corner of Kedzie and Lawrence to protest ICE’s increasing activity in Chicago. On Tuesday morning a man was was taken by federal agents by this intersection, sparking two days of protests and demonstrations.

What a loss 😢

it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piazza_... The arcade on the right really reminds of the Market Square at Pullman.

5840 W. Midway Park, Chicago. 1901, Frederick Schock, architect

Old buildings in Vincennes, I believe all from 1800-1810

Pakistan is a fascinating case: Same neighbourhood 3 years apart. May 2022: grey rooftops. Sep 2025: solar everywhere. No national programme drove this. People did the maths as grid power got pricey & panels got cheap. More in next newsletter: janrosenow.substack.com

Frederick Schock must have been quite a guy. All three of these were designed by him in Chicago's Austin neighborhood. I believe one of them is @ericallixrogers.com 's favorite house.

The redstarts are back, said Wolf, who was sitting in a sheltered spot in the kitchen garden eating saffron buns. Look, over in the hazel trees. I'm going to talk to them, Old Fox, want to hear about the desert & Dakar & everything. I would perhaps let them settle in first, said Old Fox.

@annelouiseavery.bsky.social's Patreon - "Starnbergersee mit Zugspitze" #OldFoxCommunity (Wolf, Old Fox, Babcia, & a postcard from Ulfric) Today is a good day to subscribe. www.patreon.com/posts/starnb...

#ForSale #ShellGuides #JohnLeigh-Pemberton #LifeInTheSky

Old Fox's recipes are always lovely in themselves, but also full of his time and place in the world too.

Exciting news!! Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic primary for Governor and if elected, she will make history as the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor. 

France bans bee-killing pesticides. Bees are the engine of our agriculture. Without them, our food supply is put at risk. Healthy soil and intact habitats form the foundation for true sustainability.

Millennium Park preps for BluesFest, which begins on Friday. The chainlink is down at the Pritzker, the lawn glistening, seats refreshed and reinstalled, trellis de-reusted, proscenium shining. Glorious. Orchestra season begins next Wednesday! www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

Architect Walter Gropius visited Chicago in 1928 & stayed at the Drake Hotel. He snapped shots of the Robie House & the Tribune Tower. In 1922 the Chicago Tribune had an international competition for its new headquarters. Gropius & Adolf Meyer submitted a design for a modern glass & metal tower.

wow I didn't even know but happy world bicycle day!!

Happy World Bicycle Day! I went to a community meeting for a new bike rail-trail in Bronzeville. I biked there.

Happy World International Bicycle Biking Day! I went for a ride.

good hustle everybody

She was a "world-famous supermodel"? I guess this is AI. She was a singer, dancer, and actress.

"A Discourse on Cycling" - Sterling Cycle Works, Chicago, 1895. For #WorldBicycleDay, a bicycle catalog designed in the style of a medieval illuminated manuscript, influenced by the Arts & Crafts movement of the period. www.instagram.com/p/DZIYpU_kUP...

We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.

All the ewes and lambs have settled in to a life of shorn fleeces.

This morning about 6:15 fed my flock on another farm for a shearing day event. It was very strange to drive onto this camping farm. I drove past countless tents full of families asleep. Evidence of many humans but not a single person seen. Yesterday it was teeming with people

411 West Van Buren Street

Unusually calm and serene today 🌊🌊

We bought our cargo bike on Upway for 40% retail with 600 miles on it. It's an amazing kid and cargo hauler, and turns heads every day. You can even carry a grandpa in it if you want! Super satisfied customers. So far we're putting ~250 a month on it, most of which would be in a car otherwise.

Yesterday I saw several black suvs with aftermarket emergency lights along Western from Irving up to West Ridge. I assumed it was CPD, but it is so disturbing to have law enforcement in unmarked cars. Real real low-trust society authoritarian regime shit, and I am sick of it.

An advocacy group in Virginia is running this ad on buses. 🔥🔥

North Pulaski Avenue

I saw this great horned owl in Chicago this morning.