A striking Fall gradation of color & natural perseverance growing through a wooden pallet in the alley. Nature always finds a way!

Fall colors still hanging on… great contrast against today’s blue skies!
Sure, a lot of leaves have dropped already.
But we still have a lot of “pretty” going on around town!

I can’t believe it’s already time to flip another calendar page
& time to change our clocks this weekend!

Another beautiful Fall day in Chicago!

Now that it feels like Spring has finally made it in full force to Chicago, we’re enjoying some beautiful magnolia blossoms… although they’re short-lived, so get outside & enjoy them while you can!

Looks like Spring has finally arrived in Chicago… for real this time… with blue skies & crisp white trees flowering all around. Love it.

We finally made it! Today is the first full day of Spring. And while it’s still a bit chilly in Chicago… it looks like my Peoria pals have brought a little Spring inside! In what might be one of my “vintage” vases with a little bit of stamping along the edge… before I started soda-firing!