June 14 It is another Piping Plover Monitoring shift. My assignment was the Pier, so what I was really doing was marshaling for plovers. That is, my assignment was to make sure no one entered the protected beach from the pier. We are not supposed to take photos while monitoring, but people
June 13 School is out or soon will be. Each of these young people are absorbed in their own things but were sitting together at the fountain in Lincoln Square.
June 12 Today was a busy work from home day – so I ended up grabbing this photo from the car. At least I wasn't driving.
June 11 In 2018, Reid approached Indivisible Chicago about doing GOTV postcards to Wisconsin and then Michigan. From that, Postcards to Swing States was born. We looked to do the postcards on a larger scale in 2020 with money that Reid raised. Then during COVID, the Progressive Turnout Project provided Indivisible Chicago
June 10 A few years ago, Madeline created a Love & Resist design for Indivisible Chicago t-shirts for Pride. I love the t-shirt and the design. So this year, I asked Madeline if she could take the design and simplify it a bit and size it for a banner. She did, and
June 9 Since we missed our usual Piping Plover monitoring shift on Friday – we picked up a shift today. Being at the beach to watch the Plovers is a perfect opportunity for other photos like this one.
June 8 As part of the Ottawa Family Pride Festival, there is a parade that goes through downtown between the two parks where the booths and performances take place. This year, the parade featured candidates, horses, cars, marchers, and a band. There is definitely something special about Pride events in smaller towns
June 7 The day before the Family Pride Festival in Ottawa, Illionis, Ottawa holds a Pride Night of Remembrance to honor members of the LGBTQ+ community and allies who have lost their lives to violence, suicide, AIDS, and other causes related to navigating their lives as members of marginalized populations. Mony was
June 6 We finished up the morning with Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) on the barge on the Mississippi River. This was artwork on the rail of the barge that was owned and used by Living Lands and Water for River and environmental education. While it was in East Moline now, it was
June 4 This wasn't the photo that I wanted to take today. I took this in Moline, IL after driving to the Quad Cities for work and returning to the hotel after dinner. The photo that I wanted to take was earlier before I left Chicago. I went to the
June 5 I was able to join the staff of Prairie Rivers Network (PRN) for their retreat today in the Quad Cities. After spending the morning on a barge sharing information about the work at the NWF Great Lakes Regional Center and PRN, we spent the afternoon getting to visit some cool
June 3 A few weeks ago, Mony expressed great interest in Mona's caterpillars – and the next thing we knew there was dill and a caterpillar on our front porch! Actually it turned out there were two eggs on the dill in addition to the caterpillar - so now there are
June 2 Since it is June, we continued celebrating Pride month with Equality Illinois' kick off brunch. There was great food and drinks, a few speeches, a wonderful DJ, and best of all wonderful friends. I put my camera away before the event started - so my photos are all from
June 1 Pride events are held all over Illinois in small towns and big cities. Equality Illinois tries to get out to as many as they can. Today we opened Pride Month by going to Rockford, which held its first Pride Parade. It rained the whole time, but people were excited to
May 31 Another Friday volunteering as Piping Plover Monitors – and so another photo from Montrose Beach.
May 30 I did a quick walk up to Walgreens and came across this. I have no idea what it is or why it was at the foot of the Lincoln statue. On a very different note – four years ago today was the first protest over the murder of George Floyd. I
May 29 It must be fundraising season – or maybe it is always fundraising season. Either way, lately we seem to be at a lot of fundraisers. This one was for Alder Marie Hadden, and I took this photo during the short program. The fundraiser was held at Whiskey Girl, one of the
May 28 We went downtown to see Death Becomes Her at the Cadillac Palace Theater. The show was great fun. I took this photo as we walked to the theater.
May 27 He loaded all of the compost, potting soil and mulch that we neeeded, and patiently let me take his photo while he worked.
May 26 I guess there are others who can get some birds to eat from their hand at the Montrose Bird Sactuary – but I don't think that there are many who can get chickadees, red winged blackbirds and cardinals to eat – sometimes on the same day. (We are still working
May 25 The Chicago Red Stars, the women's professional soccer team here, held their Pride Night at the game today. Equality Illinois got some free tickets so we rounded up some friends for the game. At half time, we got to go across the pitch with some other LGBTQ+ groups.
May 24 It's Friday – so we were at Montrose Beach monitoring the piping plovers – which I also think of as marshaling for birds, since I spend more time watching out for people. Before we began our shift today, I watched a couple of the workers setting up the bar try
May 23 As you can tell, a lot of these photos come from Lincoln Ave. especially between Montrose and Lawerence. It is close when there is not a lot of time, and there are pretty reliably people out. I think they take in and put out these tables and chairs daily, and
May 22 We were walking to the Damen Brown Line Stop on our way to the Music Box for the movie, and they were walking ahead of us. It was not a very good day for the EL since the train took forever, and then we forgot to get off at Southport
May 21 When no one else is out, postal carriers can ususally be found on the street. Today, there were definitely others out, but nothing or no one that caught my eye except for him.
