Shedd #3 - This shot turned out great and reminds me of those wonderful old Herman Menzel paintings.

Shedd #2 - there is no visual edge or border on the far side of the big show tank, creating a visual illusion that the tank and the lake are, seemlessly, one.

Shedd #!1 - Maybe a lot of people don't notice, but a I think a lot of thought went into making light come into the Amazon rainforest exhibit..

Easter train # 3; "Abuela wants a New York strip!" Out the window at the Harlem Ave, Berwyn stop, I observed a few Mexican families, dressed to the nines, filtering in and out of Connie's Restaurant, which always advertises "NY strips steaks." In this case, the family was slowly escorting an elderly lady in to dine.

Easter train #2; rare sighting of an Indiana Harbor engine in the Cicero yards.

Easter train #1; nice skyline view from 18th St.

Biff's Bar Union Station #4; bar or motel?

Biff's Bar Union Station #3; a window of opportunity

Biff's Bar Union Station #2; lunch empties my pockets

Biff's Bar Union Station #1; My God! A 30 foot beer!

Mug on table - an early attempt at being artsy

Another freight rumbles thru DG

Main St Downers Grove - the middlest middle of middle America's heartland.

Heading across Main St to points west

CCC Depression era mural from the wall of the Downers Grove Post office

Nice detail

Artists name on the bottom of the mail cart