There is something special, something magical about Lake Michigan. It’s one of Chicago’s greatest assets, and I do believe a central feature in the average Chicagoan’s psyche. Why? Because it is there. It is there, and it lives and breathes with the seasons and belongs to each and every citizen of this amazing town. It [...]
One more New Year’s picture:
This is part of the view to the west of my condo, of The Sovereign. Did you know that many many years ago, back when Edgewater was The Ritzy, the Prince of Wales stayed there? It used to be a hotel, now it’s apartments.
Anyhoo, I took this right after the sun [...]
All this picture stuff got me thinking about how there simply has to be an online photo editor, besides the one at Flickr. So, I turned to my trusty friend Mr. Google, and what do you know? Turns out there are several. I’m going to be trying a few out, and I’ll share my thoughts [...]
You may remember the white building here from Wolf Point, but did you know I nearly moved there? I did. I actually looked at condos there, back in the optimistic days of real estate (circa 2004). Even at that time, though, the price was so inflated that my only question to the real estate agent [...]
There were some unintended consequences of my work’s moving into a brand spankin new, LEED certified building. For example, people smile more, although I’m told that the happiness factor was actually an intended consequence (something about sunlight for everyone and vitamin D and a memo that I must not have read). Well, I don’t know, [...]
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Since I’m on the subject of comparisons, I thought I’d share two photos of the view from my condo. I took this one in March of this year:
Blech. Bleak much? So if you go through the archives and notice [...]
