1901 fireplace surround with a pair of stylized thistles and copper andiron caps by architect George Washington Maher at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Zig zag.

Visited an old friend yesterday.

Entrance to the former Narcissus Room at Marshall Fields, State Street.

It’s cold and moody here today.

hmmmmm....is this your university?

Some one was asking what the floors are like at our home...

Floor #1026 from our Chicagoland archive. Enjoy.

St Mary of the Woods men's room, Edgebrook, 1953.

Tile clothes at The Mart.

Commuter wall.

Cheers to shadows and artists who include them.

🤍 the 9.

Welcome everybody to the floor show.

Floor and more.

Wearin' o' da green.

We do our part, @mrillinois.bsky.social does theirs.

Heading west on Irving Park Road.

Back home where we belong, looking up in the Cultural Center.

🔴💛⚪️

More tile than we had thought at initial glance.

Door stoop. Puerto Vallarta.

Just another Puerto Vallarta entrance with steps that have another pattern of tile risers.

More stairs

Good morning BlueSky. This just in from Puerto Vallarta.

Stairs up to our beautiful lodging for our stay here.

We’ll be done with Puerto Vallarta posts soon, we promise. Until then, please enjoy these lovely stairs well appointed in tile.

and now Richard Burton’s PV home.

Liz’s PV home, Casa Kimberly.

We love color.

Souvenir shopping.

One fish, two fish.

Pool dolphins.

Mexican tile

New & nice in Puerto Vallarta.

It’s nothing urgent, but there is one more of these PV tile al fresco dining areas. Take a look…

But wait…there are more al fresca spaces, out early before the day begins

More tile porn, compliments of Puerto Vallarta.

Our kind of park.

Cool doorway