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!
2 comments:
so sorry that i havent been good on my end of the keeping in touch part. past 2 weeks of school have actually busy! but expect an email soon:) sorry that the bears lost and that i was rooting for the colts haha. hope youre doing well.
hi nicole,
you and patrick took some awesome photos.
seems other worldly.
regarding patrick's europa/lake michigan photo, he may have unwittingly found/explained the whereabouts of sf's missing homage to shiva--imagine, encased in stone on the shores of lake michigan. the following is an "only in sf story" from the new york times:
Shrine Removed From San Francisco Park
Published: January 24, 1994
An abandoned parking barrier worshiped as a Hindu shrine has been removed from Golden Gate Park because city officials believed that it overstepped the line between church and state.
The 4-foot-high, phallic-shaped stone, worshiped as a shrine to Shiva, god of destruction, was moved to the modest studio of a Sunset District artist, who said devotees would be able to visit.
The story of the barrier began several years ago when a city crane operator dumped it in the park. Last fall, local Hindus discovered the rock and began to pray there, pouring libations of milk and leaving flowers at its base.
The city, citing the need to separate church and state, said it had to go.
Michael Bowen, an artist who also goes by the Hindu name Kali Das, filed a lawsuit to keep the stone in place. But after he got a $14,000 legal bill and panhandlers and other street residents began to congregate around the stone, he agreed that it should be moved.
The head of the Recreation and Park Commission, Jack Immendorf, offered to give it to Mr. Bowen last week.
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