We spent a day and night in the Dunes with Mike and Andrea and their dog Monty. Monty is normally my swim buddy but the lake was really choppy and Monty wasn’t feeling well, so no beach photos this time. I’ve been swimming with Jeanne, Geoff and Sarah at Tobey…

In May we went to the Nick Cave exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Really amazing show, highly recommend it!

My flight back to Chicago had a delay on the ground at Nice that made me miss the connection at Heathrow that was to take me to O’Hare (will fast forward past the almost 2 hours in a rebook line at Heathrow with some very poor communication and some very…

Saturday morning we checked out of the airbnb and took a taxi to west Antibes, an area called Juan-les-Pins. This town is so close to where we stayed in Cannes we could have walked in 90 minutes! Although with suitcases and a hot sun overhead, we didn’t. Our hotel room…

We had a great weekend in Dublin before heading to Cannes. It was really wonderful to see everyone! Colette did a great blog post about the Kenny weekend and I would be sharing the same photos, so I hope no one minds too much if I link there: https://odriscc.wordpress.com/2022/06/20/kenny-weekend-2022/ The…

It’s duckling season again! May 27 was our first duckling sighting in the park this year, when we saw this mom Wood Duck with two ducklings. Since then, we’ve seen what is either a very large family or a day care situation. 13 ducklings with one adult! And this mallard…

We took a quick trip to the Indiana Dunes today and went on a favorite hike: Cowles Bog. Very sunny day and despite a cool temp on the thermometer (35 F / 1 C) there was very little wind and lots of warmth from the sun so it felt really…

John had a work event in Cancun in February and we decided that not only I should go and work remotely from the resort, we’d take a few additional days off and visit Merida, a colonial town in the Yucatán peninsula that we’d wanted to visit on our trip to…

We’re getting a lot of snow today! The Weather Channel named the larger snowstorm “Landon” and local experts are explaining that Chicago will have two snowstorms today, one now and the other later today. Nice time to remember the BIG snowstorm cndkmen recorded on this day 11 years ago!

The next day in Athens we started with a morning walk up to the top of Mount Lycabettus, a limestone formation that is the highest point in central Athens. To get there, we followed streets through the neighborhoods of Kolonaki and Lycabettus, up stairs, and then up the trail that…