181/366: Luxury

View from my hotel room in Urbana, IL.

There’s a sort of Internet tradition of posting photos of hotel-room views when traveling, so here’s a very slightly artsy version of same: The first time I looked out the window, there was a big-ass truck parked directly in front of it. I like this version a little better, though. Kidding about the accommodations aside,… Continue reading 181/366: Luxury

180/366: Delay

Snow removal trucks on the runway at O'Hare International Airport.

I spent Tuesday flying to Champaign, Illinois, which was probably a big mistake. I should’ve booked a Southwest flight to Midway Airport in Chicago, and rented a car to drive down to Champaign, but I decided that might be annoying on the way home, so opted to fly the whole way. Which meant a United… Continue reading 180/366: Delay

178/366: Domes

The Union college Observatory dome and the Nott Memorial dome.

I’m going to stop posting pictures of the Nott Memorial, really I am. But I got the idea a week or two ago of trying to see if there’s an angle where the observatory dome and the Nott dome look the same size, so I keep poking at that. And, in fact, there is such… Continue reading 178/366: Domes

177/366: Landmark Interior

SteelyKid and The Pip looking down from the third floor railing inside the Nott Memorial,

I’ve included at least two photos of the Nott Memorial in this series, so I’m a little hesitant to do another. But here’s an angle on it that doesn’t show up as much: We went over to campus yesterday looking for a bigger open space in which to fly SteelyKid’s RC helicopter, which turned into… Continue reading 177/366: Landmark Interior

176/366: Scale Invariance

A very symmetric tree, looking a lot like the veins in a leaf.

Again, random and artsy, but this tree in the garden behind the Reamer Campus Center at Union struck me as interesting: Is sort of looks like one of those pictures you sometimes see of oblong leaves where most of the surface has been eaten away, just leaving the delicate vein structure in place. (This kind… Continue reading 176/366: Scale Invariance

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175/366: Microdrifts

Tiny lines of snow between the "slates" on our roof.

Random artsy shot of the moment: The wild see-sawing of the temperature has continued this week, so we got a little bit of snow, then it all melted, then more snow, then more melting, etc. This is from a couple of days ago, when it was cold, and I liked the way the light dusting… Continue reading 175/366: Microdrifts

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174/366: Crushing

SteelyKid's OM team's balsa wood structure, ready for testing.

As I’ve mentioned a few times, SteelyKid is part of an Odyssey of the Mind team through her school, working on a problem to build a structure from balsa wood and glue that will hold as much weight as possible. They’ve been hard at work the last several weeks, and completed a test structure last… Continue reading 174/366: Crushing

173/366: Art Bonanza

Sorting the Pip's pre-school artwork.

The Pip is in pre-school these days, and we have a running joke when I drop him off where I tell him to work hard, and he responds “No, grown-ups do work. You go to work. I’m going to the JCC to play with my friends!” Of course, his playing does involve a bit of… Continue reading 173/366: Art Bonanza

167-172/366: Another Batch

The Nott Memorial, with its own reflection.

Another long photo-a-day gap, because the last week was crazy in a bunch of ways. The weather has slewed wildly between winter and spring; Kate had to go to The City to argue a case leaving me solo-parenting the sillyheads; and I’ve been fighting the onset of a rotten cold. That last has involved a… Continue reading 167-172/366: Another Batch