i finally uploaded our pictures from our trip to chicago in 2004. (long story, they were in iPhoto on carrie’s computer). anyway, here’s the whole collection:
Chicago 2004 it includes pictures of Oak Park, IL, the Unity Temple, and from the Skydeck of the Sears Tower. (my, how touristy of us!)
here’s a sampling of images from oak park:
it’s been a long, hard fight. but i’m finally through my first semester of school in more than a decade. it was pretty rough, i didn’t realize how much reading would be involved. but i’m done. and i managed to do pretty well…
okay, i won’t make you click through. 3.53 gpa. my most successful semester… ever!
there’s been a lot of buzz recently, and for good reason, about frank lloyd wright’s work in buffalo. while the number of structures pales compared to oak park or chicago, you can see exactly how wright’s brilliance evolved when he had the opportunity of working for a patron who was both highly respected by wright, and highly supportive of him — both creatively and economically.
prariemod mentioned this recently and has been keeping an eye on the ongoing re-creation/restoration of the darwin martin house.
no, it’s not “springtime for hitler,” but the yard is coming alive with color.
link to Yard + Flowers 2007 photoset on flickr – we’ll be updating this as the year blooms on!
this weekend, in addition to the usual home improvement and homework activities, we decided we needed a break from everything, and took a quick 1/2 day jaunt up to Bellingham, WA.
does it sound like grousing? anyway. i got home safe. but i pretty much idled up I-5 in first gear (and that’s when i was moving!)
here’s some pictures from around the house this morning.
last weekend we had one amazing day of weather (saturday). like, upper 60s and sunny. i took advantage of this to clean up the yard, re-cut some landscape edges, do some random work in the front. but the big news, is that i smashed my finger with a hammer.
mom sent this slipper toy/bed/… thing. her cat didn’t regard it much, ours like to wrastle on it and occasionally nap.
so, just a quick update on how school is going for me.
i just hit midterms, and it was kind of a rough week. lot of reading to do, lot of online exams & quizzes. one nice thing, however, is that if your online quiz/exam contains only multiple choice/true-or-false questions — you get instant grades when you’re done!
so far, i’m above the class average in all my courses on all assignments, quizzes, exams, and required discussion boards online (the online equivalent of “class participation”). if i continue at this pace, i should do quite well.
