Geo, enjoying a 'beer' sausage at Mars Cheese Castle
Taste of Chicago
Scenes from this year's Taste of Chicago
A few things I love about the Taste of Chicago:
- Renewing my driver’s license in less than 10 minutes
- Watching people try to juggle turkey legs, corn-on-the-cob, and taste portions with only two hands &
- Getting my annual rainbow cone fix!
Scenes from WI Roadtrip
Across the Illinois-Wisconsin border near the popular Mars Cheese Castle store, is an all-but-abandoned cocktail lounge decorated with large, blue and yellow stars. I love these stars almost as much as I love the cheese curds I get at Mars. They’re kitschy and beautiful. Add some fluffy white clouds and perfect blue sky, and they make excellent subjects for my eager camera.
Blue Cocktail Star
Cocktail Stars
Yellow Cocktail Star
My Urban Garden – June Update
Radish harvest
The rain and unseasonably cool weather made it difficult to muster much enthusiasm for gardening, but all thoughts of giving up left with my first veggie harvest! Right now I have more radishes than I know what to do with and if the carpet of seedlings are any indication, I’ll have more dill and basil than I can hope to use. The courtyard garden isn’t all good news, though. It looks like the rain has beaten my spinach into the ground. Ah well.
Confession time – I bought herbs. I swore I had a budget this year and I would raise everything from seed. So much for that! I also lost all eco-cred by running to Home Depot for more plastic pots. What’s the point of going organic if I have to buy plastic pots to do it? I struggle with my eco-ism. Still, I couldn’t resist buying night-blooming jasmine and variegated basil. Who could?
My container garden includes tomato plants, herbs and flowers.
And I love riding my bike
Watch out Dorothy! She has Toto!