Brief weekend trip to Chicago to spend some time with my son. He went to college here and stayed for a total of twenty years. He and his family eventually moved to east-central Michigan, near where his wife grew up. We don't see each other enough.
This shop is across the street from the restaurant we went to last night. Name your poison.
Flew over to New York yesterday and then drove to New Jersey, where I'll spend the 4th of July holiday with my sibs and their families. I made sure to get a window seat on the left/north side of the plane. Irregular streaks of soot stained the sky. As I drove across the bridge linking Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx, the air was a smudge of orange-brown, the sun looking like old fruit ready for the trash.
My plane got out of St. Louis just as lightening was flashing across the west. Shortly thereafter, a huge storm blew in, causing flash flooding and downed power lines. At least it clears the air.
