So the art fair didn’t start until 10:00am this past weekend… so that gave me “plenty” of time to go for a bike ride beforehand, right?! I mean, when you kick-off your morning with this kind of amazing natural beauty… it’s gotta be a great day, right?!!! So I got up early, pedaled along the lakefront as usual… then rushed home, showered, changed, and drove out to Glenview for Day Two of ART IN THE GARDEN!

Clear skies without a lot of sunrise drama…
but it was the lake that was providing a lot of splish-splashing fun!!!
Timing is everything!

Quiet & serene… no real clouds in the sky, no real waves on the lake. Just some beautiful sunrise reflections…. and a surprise sunrise proposal that I just happened to stumble upon! I was wondering why there were more people than usual “just hanging out” at Montrose for the sunrise this morning… several of them “hiding” in the wildflower area with cameras pointed at the couple sitting in chairs… and not the sunrise???

Oh yeah… and about that surprise engagement.
The guy had obviously set it up with his friends to hide in the weeds to capture photographs of the actual engagement… thus the hiding in the flowers! And here’s the happy couple…

Not a cloud in the sky, just some low-flying haze off in the distance. Pretty quiet today… a few waves crashing… but no noise from the cars on Lake Shore Drive as it is still closed down overnight to limit access to the downtown area since the recent looting riots!!! Oddly quiet until the road that parallels the lakefront bike trail re-opens at 6:00am.

Dark & moody at the start.
Beautiful sunrise just like art.
Another wonderful day riding my bike.
Just like every other morning I like.

Cute, huh?
Okay… so I never claimed to be a poet.

Two more pictures from this morning… when the colors were sweeping across the horizon. One before, and one after the sun made its grand appearance!

Sometimes you just need a bigger photo to capture the morning’s sky show!

After yesterday’s crazy storm that blew right through The Windy City… I knew that there would be some trees & branches down this morning along the lakefront bike trail. But I had no idea just how bad it would be! The sunrise was a nice distraction from all of the natural destruction!

Quiet. Warm. Steamy. Sweaty. It was a quiet sunrise ride with very few people out this morning. Not much of a sunrise to begin the day… with a little “redemption” at the very end!!!

Usually my mornings are very solitary along the lakefront… forever socially-distant. But today I had a little friend stop by to say hello… and he really quacked me up!!!

There were also a lot of helicopters flying around the City breaking the serenity. So I knew something was up?! Apparently there was another night of crazy looting & robberies all over the City?! Obviously organized attacks on businesses all over the City… organized robberies, smashed windows, stolen cash registers, merchandise stolen and so much more! WHY?!!! And we now deal with the crazy aftermath here in Chicago!

As though a global pandemic weren’t enough to deal with already?!

Clear skies with a warm breeze. A beautiful start to what is supposed to be a hot one today! So good to get out to get a few miles in before the heat & humidity sets in later today.