Author: DXO
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Art: Nichols Library, Naperville, on a Sunny September Day
Here’s an image I took on Wednesday: And a tracing I made of same:
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Lamppost studies, Lake Shore Drive at 59th Street Harbor / Jackson Park Lagoon Bridge
I am trying to learn how to sketch. Over the weekend, I attended (not ran in 🙂 the Chicago Half Marathon. The course for the race started in Jackson Park, basically at the site of the proposed Obama Presidential Library. I like nature, architecture, and pictures, so S-L and I walked the course up to…
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Photo Essay: Minnesota State Fair, September 2018
A couple weekends ago I helped my son move into an apartment as he starts his second year in college. All summer I had been hankering to go to a county fair. I love everything about county fairs— the colors of the booths, the contained danger of the midway, the exaggerated foodstuffs. The direct examination…
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Collage: 18 Wonder Day
On Monday, I took the day off. It was my 18th anniversary of sobriety. I used the time to work on an image collage, which is a new (to me) form of art that I’ve been working on since I got an iPad Pro.
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Rarely have we seen a person fail
Rarely have we seen a person fail SHIFT Cyclery & Coffee Bar, Eau Claire, WI, on the way up to help CXO move in to his new house in Minneapolis. I like coming here because my friends Aaron and Laura helped start it and because it helps me stay on-target and not pig out on…