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We went to Garfield Park Conservatory today. It was my first visit. I had only ever been to the much smaller Lincoln Park Conservatory before. As far as both go, I love the Victorian architecture of both buildings. Since not much has changed with plants in thousands of years, a person can walk into the place today or a hundred years ago and see the ( Read more... )

The other day I was milling about the house when I heard something get knocked over, so I immediately went looking for Apollo. I couldn't find him right away. Finally, I look in his litter closet and find this.....


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I've got one handsome kitty.

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Someone got his gift a little early Monday night. Apollo vaulted to this tower thing like a bee to honey. Since my parents have no grand kids they've actually ever seen, the animals get spoiled.


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( More pictures of the little prince )

I've always had a struggle with watching old movies. I've always wanted to like them, but I found their surface simplicities to be unchallenging intellectually. It wasn't until I started to see how undertones were such a big part of film in the early years that I began enjoying them. Whether the undertones are intentional, in a world that was ( Read more... )

A few more random kitty pics. I am turning into my mother with all the pictures I am taking of him ( Read more... )

What a night. I guess I should just start from the beginning ( Read more... )

Sunday I should have just lounged around all day, but that leaves me feeling guilty so we went to the park for a bit again. Even as the days get colder and the greenery gets deader, life teams about. Especially in the morbidly obese squirrel population there. At one point we had to have had at least 10 of them running around us ( Read more... )