It was a beautiful day today! Yesterday, Andy and I attended a talk at Loyola by Erik Larson, the author of Devil in the White City. Andy asked the very last question of the evening, which had to do with which parts of Chicago really stuck with the author from his many visits here (while he was writing). He talked a bit about Graceland Cemetery where many of the people featured in the book are buried, but also mentioned the Lake. Lake Michigan was such an important part of the 1893 World's Fair and Larson said that it really made the scene come alive for him--it truly is a living entity which changes by the hour...and sometimes by the minute! And besides the change in the amount of garbage along the shoreline (thankfully, there's less now), the Lake is so similar to the Lake of 1893--similar in it's changingness. I thought that that was pretty cool to think about.
I took a picture today of my favorite tree in our park and was reminded of how the scene has changed over the past months. Here are pictures from October, February, and now:
I hear the weather will be even nicer tomorrow!
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