Not much sunrise drama this morning… because all of the morning drama was hanging out low over the City. Low clouds shrouding the City’s skyline as the humidity blows through.

Caught playing in the rain.
Beautiful hydrangeas after a little morning rainfall.

Crazy cool & colorful caladium leaves… when texture, color & pattern collide in Nature!… with a few raindrops!!!

Rainy day.
Dripping on textures.
Creating puddles on hosta leaves.

The heavy dark morning clouds moved out… and were replaced by blue skies & fluffy white clouds! How could I NOT go outside for another afternoon bike ride?!

And a view from the other side… the City skyline as seen from the south side down by Promontory Point. It was a very warm & steamy biking morning… you can literally see the humidity hanging out & hovering low downtown! By the time I got home I was DRIPPING!!!

In anticipation of the morning’s “event” I couldn’t get the Johnny Cash classic song out of my head! They told us we would have a “Ring Of Fire” solar eclipse this morning… which was cool… but the alignment was a bit more like a chomp bite out of a cookie!

And oh, but wait there’s more!!! When I made it downtown, there was this crazy-cool blanket of morning fog shrouding the lakefront area. Another wonderful sunrise bike ride… framed by fog!

Nothing like biking along the lakefront all afternoon when it’s a shocking 85-degrees outside!!! Blue skies, warm breezes & sleeveless!!!

Some beautiful spring flowers gracefully dancing in front of the one of my stamped & soda-fired totem poles down in Central Illinois… is there such a thing as #TotemPoleTuesday?!

And sure, there may have been a bit of April snow this morning…
but it looks like Spring is still holding strong!