Sunnier...

...but conflicted.

Moody

Maybe it's pretty there...

The Chicago Conservatory

Chicago Sunset

Chicago Cultural Center

Toothache

Why do my lower teeth hurt after I have been coughing for days? Why is the coughing for days not enough? Why is everyone sick right now?

No reason, I know.

Soon we'll all be well again, and it will be even sweeter because we were sick. Soon it will be my birthday, and after that it will be Spring, and then it will be green and blue and yellow and not gray and gray and gray. Soon, soon.

Hallelujah!

"The Inaguration. At Last"

by Maira Kalman.

Thanks for books, thanks for the shrinking dot, getting smaller, and smaller...

Gampo Abbey Baseball

Vs. the fire-fighters.

I just find this so charming.

Glass Sponge

In modern times, the delicate animals were thought to exist only as fossils until explorers in the 1990s discovered large reefs of living relics.