Bus through the rainy windshield

Bus through the rainy windshield
Originally uploaded by SandyJasmine

This looked like a Monet painting to me.

Selena

 Someone likes Selena!

Chicago Bulls Official Movers

Official mover to the Chicago Bulls basketball team! He was so happy that I asked him if I could take a picture of his car, he had me send the picture to his boss.

Rainy day in Chicago

Nothing to do on this rainy day, but listen to XM Radio in the car and knit scarves. I love that XM has six different holiday music stations. I am switching between hysterically stupid "Special XMAS," and traditional, and classical, and Chanukah music.

I am looking forward to midnight mass. I always wonder if I appreciate Christmas so much because I was born Jewish. Although I had a wonderful childhood, I felt deprived of Christmas as a kid. The whole world had Christmas. I felt like I was peeking in the window, looking in on something wonderful that everyone else had.


Brown horse in front of the water tower, Chicago.


Horse and carriage in Chicago, behind the old water tower.


Michigan Avenue lights, Chicago.
















Fooling around with the Mac Book.

The White City

Did you ever read the book, "Devil in the White City?"
It was a murder mystery set in Chicago around the time of the Columbian Exposition in the 1890s. The White City was the Museum of Science and Industry, originally built to house the Columbian Exposition.

The Ferris Wheel had its debut at this World's Fair. As did the first affordable portable camera.

Here are the ladies that have so graciously held up the museum with their heads for the past 114 years. The Art Deco building is cool and stately. The inside of the museum reminds me of the set for The Wizard of Oz.

Now the Museum of Science of Industry, the main building of the 1893 World's Fair.




I can picture the gypsies camping here in 1893, just like in the book.