The Impossible Year

Tag: impossible

  • PARK CLOSED, 19 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 While bars and restaurants have been able to open, Chicago’s beloved Lake Shore Trail has been closed until recently. This week it reopened for ‘Moving’ only. Something that feels completely arbitrary as it should have occurred weeks ago, and it lagging behind the reopening of businesses…

  • Hammock Chair, 18 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Since we’re spending so much time at home we purchased a hammock chair for the balcony. Beth Ann has spent an inordinate amount of time in it since then.

  • Lego Village, 17 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Sometimes it’s nicer to go to a fantasy world.

  • Welles Park, 16 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked over to Welles Park to sit and read and took in this sunset. The silhouette hides it, but there is a crochet ‘BLM’ sign on here. You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBhgRnYDG6s/

  • Espresso Maker, 15 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I struggled today. I had a real hard time accomplishing anything aside from making coffee.  I have a deep appreciation for this machine and how I acquired it. It used to be the ActiveCampaign office machine and when they were moving offices it was going…

  • Patty Melt, 14 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I attempted to make a patty melt by using Beth Ann’s sourdough in combination with a bunch of recipes, including the Steak N Shake Frisco Melt. It was a giant mess, a delicious giant mess.

  • Plant Shopping, 13 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The Wasteshed was having a sidewalk sale so we went and our friend Katie met us there. After looking through the selection the three of us went across to ‘Christy Webber Farm & Garden Center’ where we picked out a number of houseplants. The staff was…

  • Molly Marshall, 12 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 June 12th is Molly Marshall’s Birthday. She likes to descibe me as “some weirdo that she met on the internet that she’s been friends with for over a decade” and while that is accurate, it doesn’t nearly do our friendship justice. Molly and both have strong…

  • DePaul, 11 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 The sign at the—currently locked—entrance-way to DePaul University’s Lincoln Park Campus displayed a ‘Black Lives Matter’ message.

  • Emissions Testing, 10 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 In order to get our car’s registration renewed we needed to get it emissions inspected, which was entirely shut down until recently.