I don't think last winter ever got this cold. Today, it is 3 degrees--without accounting for a bitter wind. Patrick and I decided to bundle up and brave the weather to check out the landscape at Promontory Point, which juts out into Lake Michigan just a little bit. Usually we walk there, but today we drove. Thank goodness for new boots (a purchase at the closing of the flagship State Street store of Carson Pirie Scott, one of the original pioneers of the department store as we now know it)! My thighs, on the other hand, have never been so cold. It was hard to use my camera, since gloves are so clumsy, and without them, Patrick kept threatening that I was going to get frostbite. I did manage a few photos, though. It reminded me of salt flats and petrified trees. But colder.
Go Bears!
I don't think last winter ever got this cold. Today, it is 3 degrees--without accounting for a bitter wind. Patrick and I decided to bundle up and brave the weather to check out the landscape at Promontory Point, which juts out into Lake Michigan just a little bit. Usually we walk there, but today we drove. Thank goodness for new boots (a purchase at the closing of the flagship State Street store of Carson Pirie Scott, one of the original pioneers of the department store as we now know it)! My thighs, on the other hand, have never been so cold. It was hard to use my camera, since gloves are so clumsy, and without them, Patrick kept threatening that I was going to get frostbite. I did manage a few photos, though. It reminded me of salt flats and petrified trees. But colder.
Go Bears!
