Do: Architectural Kayak Tour/Chicago River

(Of particular note: #2 is Morton Salt, and #9 is Merchandise Mart)

Looking up

Do: Graceland Cemetary

 Part two, coming soon. We got there too late to fully explore!

Looking up

I've wanted to fly for as long as I can remember. Just this weekend I began wondering more deeply about jumping from a plane, as a means of flight. Still at the wondering stage.

Vintage

I miss Colorado

Lately, I miss the mountains. There's a heightened peace that comes when you're looking over the land, while the sky goes on for years. A natural calm, an intoxicating rush.

The dry

The blades of grass are begging
to each heavy, floating cloud.
Robins hop through a foreign desert
devoid of worms; no surface life.

The corn, planted early, is too-tall, dry;
the farmers have said all their prayers,
danced their dance,
and now wonder what more to sacrifice.

This Midwestern earth needs rain.