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Katie and the Tamale Spaceship, 2 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and Katie had recently driven by the Tamale Spaceship while out and about and decided to make it their mission to track it down. Thankfully it wasn’t very hard as we learned it would be parked on Southport Avenue on…
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A Fresh Start, 1 January 2021Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 (Self-portrait inspired by Andy and my 2020 self-care journey) When I retired this project in January of 2014, I didn’t know if I would ever return to it. Keeping it going across road trips to Texas and international travel was a lot of work.…
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Montrose & Wolcott, 31 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 New Years Eve was a quiet one for us. The sky was clear, the weather was chilly but not horrible. I made a stop at Chicago’s Pizza for a slice to go and picked up coffee from Starbucks since all of the good…
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Bombastic Cafe Window, 30 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The window of Bombastic Cafe on the southport corridor has a skeleton in a plague mask and another with a lightbulb in its mouth. A delightful amount of weird for a neighborhood not exactly known for being edgy.
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Faintly Falling Ashes, 29 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The year decided not to go quietly as Chicago got hit with a thick batch of snow and temperatures below freezing for days. But at least it looked pretty.
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Garage, 28 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann dramatically reworked and reorganized the garage to better use it for ceramics.
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Farewell Carly (for now), 26 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I went up to Rogers Park to see Carly and give her a (long overdue) hug and some gifts before she head out on her new adventure in Milwaukee.
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Giant Dog Bed, 24 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 We had a very low key Christmas Eve. Marla thinks our Lovesac chair is a massive dog bed. She takes a ramp up to our couch and then climbs across to it. It’s kinda hilarious.
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Christmas Trees, 21 December 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Every year this little shop is set up by the Brown Line selling trees and wreaths. A semblance of normalcy.