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mojosmomI don't usually go to the Chicago Botanic Gardens. For one thing, despite its name, it's not actually in Chicago, but in Glencoe, a suburb north of here, which means a fair bit of a drive. For another, despite the fact that "admission is free", they charge $20 to park, and there's no reasonable public transit from the city. However, in one of the rare instances when they offered something that interested me, Groupon had a half-off coupon for CBG parking. I watched the weather reports, and yesterday a) the weather was beautiful, and b) I didn't have anything else scheduled during the day. So I waited until the outbound rush hour calmed down, and headed north. In the event, I spent three and a half hours wandering about the Gardens (and another half-hour having a nice lunch on the deck of their café).
Of course, I took scads of photos. Here are a few of my favorites.
I loved the look of this dewy spiderweb stretched over a thyme plant:
Here's a ladybird (or do you say "ladybug"?):
I was tempted to pick an apple!
Fishies:
Lots more here
Other things:
Casa Italiana had an author event on Saturday with Robert Rodi, to promote his book, Seven Seasons in Siena. It was fun and interesting, and, naturally, I bought the book.
I've been getting more involved with the Friends of the Library, and met with a couple of the other folks today to talk about our membership drive. I'm going to work on the brochure, and I have some thoughts about the website (which hasn't really been kept up with, and it needs to be). We'll have a booth at the Children's Book Fair, and I'm going to a meeting tomorrow about programming in the Family Tent at next month's local jazz festival.
It poured most of the day. I'd walked over to the FOL meeting before the rain started, but fortunately was wise enough to bring my umbrella. Got a bit wet all the same (umbrellas don't keep your feet dry!).
A nice fat check arrived from one of my pension systems - a refund of the spousal contribution. I'd expected it to be deposited directly to my bank account, just as my pension distributions are, but instead they sent me an actual check, so I had to go and deposit that. (The bank is all of a block and a half away, so no big deal there.) I'm not going to spend it all in one place, as the saying goes, but I do think this means that Dublin is definitely on. I guess I'd better start reading Ulysses!
Oh, and earthquake! I was sitting at my computer early this afternoon, and felt my chair shaking. I couldn't figure it out. I didn't think the ceiling fan was blowing all that hard! It stopped after a bit, and I didn't think anything more of it, until I read about the earthquake on the east coast. Seems it was felt quite a ways away, up to Toronto, and a number of people in the Midwest felt it, too. Timing was right, so I'm guessing that's what it was.
Of course, I took scads of photos. Here are a few of my favorites.
I loved the look of this dewy spiderweb stretched over a thyme plant:
Here's a ladybird (or do you say "ladybug"?):
I was tempted to pick an apple!
Fishies:
Lots more here
Other things:
Casa Italiana had an author event on Saturday with Robert Rodi, to promote his book, Seven Seasons in Siena. It was fun and interesting, and, naturally, I bought the book.
I've been getting more involved with the Friends of the Library, and met with a couple of the other folks today to talk about our membership drive. I'm going to work on the brochure, and I have some thoughts about the website (which hasn't really been kept up with, and it needs to be). We'll have a booth at the Children's Book Fair, and I'm going to a meeting tomorrow about programming in the Family Tent at next month's local jazz festival.
It poured most of the day. I'd walked over to the FOL meeting before the rain started, but fortunately was wise enough to bring my umbrella. Got a bit wet all the same (umbrellas don't keep your feet dry!).
A nice fat check arrived from one of my pension systems - a refund of the spousal contribution. I'd expected it to be deposited directly to my bank account, just as my pension distributions are, but instead they sent me an actual check, so I had to go and deposit that. (The bank is all of a block and a half away, so no big deal there.) I'm not going to spend it all in one place, as the saying goes, but I do think this means that Dublin is definitely on. I guess I'd better start reading Ulysses!
Oh, and earthquake! I was sitting at my computer early this afternoon, and felt my chair shaking. I couldn't figure it out. I didn't think the ceiling fan was blowing all that hard! It stopped after a bit, and I didn't think anything more of it, until I read about the earthquake on the east coast. Seems it was felt quite a ways away, up to Toronto, and a number of people in the Midwest felt it, too. Timing was right, so I'm guessing that's what it was.
