PhotoFriday: "Old Fashioned"

Old soldier in sepia
Originally uploaded by mojosmom.

I saw this guy wearing a Civil War cap at a Fourth of July celebration, and, thanks to the wonders of digital cameras, shot this in a sepia tone to resemble an old photo.

Heavenly concert tonight!

Quite literally. I went to a performance of Holst's The Planets, under the stars clouds at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion. The concert was accompanied by a video of astronomical charts and maps, and images and photos of the various planets. It was gorgeous. Thank you, Chicago Sinfonietta and Adler Planetarium!

It's been awhile since I posted, and I was a busy bee last weekend! The Latino Theatre Festival is on now at the Goodman, and friends and I went to a production last Friday called Taking Flight, by Adriana Sevan, who also performed the work, playing a multiplicity of characters. It's a story of friendship and loss, giving and taking, and made one furiously to think as sympathies shifted back and forth.

Saturday was a performance of opera choruses at the Pritzker. Perfect weather! And Sunday more good weather for a picnic with friends in Waukegan. I got back in time to go back to the Goodman for a staged reading of a play called Little Certainties, in which a woman's boy friend has disappeared, and she and his remaining family discover that he has kept secrets from them all.

Food meme!

Nabbed from a couple of folks.

100 foods you should eat. Bold what you've eaten, italicize what you've eaten and hated, strikethrough those you're not willing ever to try. Underline ones you have no idea what they are.

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