Summer?

We went from having a 90-plus degree spring...to a 60-degree summer. Whattup?!? (Heh. In fact, I will always be a winter girl at heart, so these temps are treating me fine.)

Here are some shots from some nice summer days last year. You should be seeing a new summerized header as well. :)

Oh, pretty.

So you may have heard me talk about the Chicago Cultural Center recently. Not only do they show great exhibits there, but the building itself has lots of lovely architecture (although of a million varying styles) and many little nooks and crannies to explore.

Ah.

Yup, I'm pretty much NEVER going to get tired of Bean shots.

Here are a few black-n-whites from a recent gloomy afternoon.

The Bean totally has "Gloom, be gone!" powers. As you can see.

In other news, I'm hoping to shower again someday soon without pieces of cement raining down on my head. *Fingers crossed*.

Yes, I'm still COMPLETELY obsessed with the Dino statue. Why do you ask? Heh.

Dino via Polaroid (Fuji Instax 200 actually):

Dino via Black & White:

Dino via Blackbird, Fly:

There's a little bit more on Flickr should you be interested.

We rock.

That is all.

RIP Patience.

My mom's puppa died yesterday. She was such a sweet sweet girl.

I loved her very much.

The sun came out! WHAT?!?

And we celebrated with a lovely, lazy Saturday evening full of great food and great conversation. Comfortably awesome.

Sadly it is back to work today for me. July 31 cannot come soon enough.

When I'm stuck with a day, that's gray, and lonely...

The sun'll come out...tomorrow?

Holga + The Dregs of Urbanity = Actually Kinda Awesome

See what I mean?

And occasionally things turn out just the way you planned.

It's not summer yet...but these pictures make me FEEL like it is.

(And YES I really really need to change my banner. Maybe over the weekend I'll find the time to get up off the couch and take care of that problem. Maybe.)

All bricked up. All walled in.

So I really don't have anything to say but god I was sick of looking at those wristwarmers. Especially since I just started another pair!

In other news, Carrie was here to visit this weekend and you can see some fun shots of that in Lauren's stream. And Carrie's. In other words, my awesomely photogenic fun friend comes for the weekend...and I never take out a digital camera. WTF is wrong with me. I did shoot a TINY bit of film. So you know. There'll be that. One day.

Wristwarmers are the new black.

OH HAI I guess I do still knit. Sometimes.

The Spring, it is pretty.

Oh so pretty.

I think I need to retire.

I mean, check this shit out.

I rock. Yo.

Sometimes you just need a project to get you going.

And thus does 'roid week continue.

It's 'Roid Week 2009!!

You can browse the group here.

And MERCI BEAUCOUP for all the congratulations!! Muchos appreciated.