The Impossible Year – Page 26 – One Polaroid a day

July 17, 2020

Laura at Welles Park, 12 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Laura had a socially distanced birthday gathering in the park. A good time was had by all.
July 15, 2020

Tom at GMan, 11 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Lakeview’s bars scene is scary for those of us concerned about the virus.‬ The Gman Tavern is striving to do things right.‬ ‪Its manager, Tom, told me they want to be the safest bar in Wrigleysville.‬ On Saturdays from 2pm to 7pm the bar…
July 15, 2020

Andersonville, 10 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beautiful day in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. You’d never know how much of a mess everything is.
July 15, 2020

Nickd and Basil, 9 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Every year Nick and his partner Erin celebrate their dog Basil with a ‘Basil Day’ party and give him a steak. This year we needed to perform it at home so Nick cooked batches of food which we each swung by and picked up so…
July 13, 2020

Clark and Roscoe, 8 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Wrigleyville’s landscape continues to change as, despite everything else going on, the construction never stops. The CTA’s Red and Purple Modernization project, aka ‘RPM’ marches on, leveling buildings and building brutalist structure, as we march towards a faster, more efficient mass transit system. One…
July 10, 2020

Forty Acres, 7 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I have been trying to figure out a suitable way to get produce delivered semi-regularly. We started off with Imperfect Foods, but ultimately determined this was an opportunity to support local farmers and businesses owned by disenfranchised groups. Thats when we found ‘Forty…
July 9, 2020

Candlelight Dinner, 6 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann was having a tough day so I let her nap and surprised her with dinner by candlelight.
July 9, 2020

Goddamnit, 5 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Spent the 5th cleaning the house and listening to my favorite Alkaline Trio album on vinyl.
July 9, 2020

Fourth of July, 4 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Neither of us were in a particularly celebratory mood for the 4th of July this year but we still wanted to enjoy some grilled food so we bought some brats from Spoken Cafe and our neighbor Dan grilled them on his balcony and we…
July 8, 2020

Park Life Forever, 3 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Beth Ann and I met up with Leslie and sat in Welles Park and had Taco In A Bag.