Thunderstorm approaching Lake Michigan
A dark mood for Lake Michigan
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
Passing through, somewhere in Michigan
From the train somewhere in Michigan, 25 June 2012, but with the feel of western New York, circa 1968.
Perfect day for a journey
Butterflies at Chicago Botanic Garden
Butterflies at Chicago Botanic Garden
Relics: "Ding ding," or the full-service filling station
If you grew up before the 1970s, you probably remember full-service gas or filling stations. When you pulled into the station, your car’s tires ran over a hose stretched across the driveway that emitted a sing-song “ding ding’ for each … Continue reading
Back from the veterinarian’s
Dreary 1970s Chicago
In the credits and the background of The Bob Newhart Show, Chicago is invariably dreary, with uniformly gray skies. It’s as if the show were set in a perpetual early winter, after the autumn is bright with color and before the winter is bright with snow.
This is how Chicago really looks in spring and parts of summer:
or this:
and, all right, occasionally this:
