Passing Storm - Sunday Walk in Downtown Chicago - First Week of June - MyShadowProductions #226

Hello again !! Happy mid June :)

I don’t think this Post will have a “theme” (do any of my Posts?:) but it turns out that when I started sorting through my pictures to make a couple of Videos there was more than I expected. Basically what I mean by that is the Videos are longer in minutes than I anticipated :)

Good or bad, exciting or mundane, bright or dull, busy or calm, interesting or boring, and to use an overused phrase, “it is what it is”. I don’t even know if I can finish that thought so I will distract you by offering what I think is a “get up and go” song from Bob Seger called American Storm, and a few pictures I took from my east facing, 8th floor windows of a Midwest storm moving east from Aurora.

Partial Rainbow 

Click Here for American Storm by Bob Seger! One cool line of many, is:

“Everybody casts a certain light”……. 

Speaking of light, the daylight gets close to its longest this time of year and the growth around us is nothing short of amazing !!

As a follow up to all the Spring Blooms in May I made the following Video with my random early June pictures at Aurora, Morton Arboretum and Garfield Park Conservatory, with a little “wildlife” mixed in. 

The First Week of June, this years’ unique version, a small slice of the big picture we all experience, if we choose to !!

My next Video was created from my pictures on a mostly sunny Sunday in Downtown Chicago. I walked from the Adams St exit for Union Station a little south to VanBuren St then east to the Buckingham Fountain and the Lakefront Trail then north past DuSable Harbor, Polk Bros Park, Ohio St Beach, the Chicago River and back to the train.

The picture in my last Post about a damaged building near the Clinton St Green Line Station is a continuing story. The building is being “demolished” but in a very surprising and “controlled” way and I am trying to get pictures and videos of the progress a couple times a week as I make my way to Garfield Park Conservatory.

Here’s the latest photo:

Ok, that’s it for this Post and I want to make a suggestion to everyone who is still reading (thank you) after all the chatter above :)

How about finding a big, clean (or muddy) puddle and JUMP IN IT !! If you do it, you will know what I mean !!

SPLASH and BLOOM !!

Pardon the shovel handle :) I took a quick break from weeding :)

Salt Cedar or Tamarisk Trees