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Extra points if Nina or AdagioM can identify the sweatshirt.
 
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So I arrive at the designated meeting place to have lunch with Mary Anna, and lo and behold the same guy who was photobombing yesterday's pictures with kluurs shows up again and follows us around all over the place. He elbowed his way into the picture in front of the Chagall mosaic and I ended up in the background.

I think he's sweet on Mary Anna. Big Grin


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Extra points if Nina or AdagioM can identify the sweatshirt.


Looks like Black Butte to me!


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Extra points if Nina or AdagioM can identify the sweatshirt.


Looks like Black Butte to me!


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Here are Quirt and WTG, silhouetted against a magnificent Tiffany dome and a fabulously ornate former public library. Something about downtown Chicago makes me long to be a Gilded Age robber baron, just so I can fit in with the decor.




It was jaw-dropping, truly.




Truly. This is the former public library's secondary backup stained-glass dome. Do you know how opulent the public libraries of my acquaintance have been? The answer is "Not at all." Those robber barons really knew how to do it right.



And here is a Tiffany glass mosaic that is mysteriously called a "dome" on its accompanying interpretive placard. I would call it a vault, but what do I know? It lofts over the former Marshall Fields department store, which is currently a Macy's. This is an amazingly magnificent dome/vault for a place of commerce. I loved the iridescent colors. Chicago is rich in beautiful glass--Chagall made windows out of it for the museum and mosaics out of it for a park. The theaters glisten with sparkly shards. I'm guessing that it took about a million person-hours to make and install all this stuff. It's really quite lovely.



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Like the pictures.
The pictures of the library changed my mental image of Chicago.
I usually picture the freeways where work is going on under sheets of plastic in the cold.


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I had an absolutely wonderful time. I met Mary Anna a few years ago at a piano party at kluurs, but it was the first time for meeting Quirt. We all hit it off immediately as if we'd known each other for years...oh, wait....

We had a bit of lunch at the French Market in the train station. We had planned to catch a tour at the Chapel in the Sky but when we got there learned it had been cancelled, so we went on an expedition around the Loop, including a stop at the Chagall Four Seasons mosaic in the nearby Chase Plaza.

https://www.chicago.gov/city/e...allsfourseasons.html

Besides going to the Chicago Cultural Center (formerly the Chicago Public Library) to see the two domes, we also stopped by the hotel where Quirt and MA were staying. It was formerly (we repurpose a lot around here) the Chicago Athletic Association and it's been converted to a hotel. Very cool men's club decor; we sat around in huge leather chairs and chatted for a while.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Ho...hicago_Illinois.html

We also traveled over to Marshall Field's (never Macy's to this native Chicagoan) to see the Tiffany dome/vault over there.

I think the Evanses have seen enough mosaic tile to last them a lifetime.

March has been a good bit colder than usual and we all braved some pretty gusty winds during our walk. Hopefully they'll be back soon when the weather is nicer and they don't have to put up with wind chills in the 20s!


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What wind chill? I was wearing a sweatshirt and I was fine. Big Grin But our Floridian thought she was in Alaska.

It was wonderful to meet you at long last, wtg! I definitely want you as part of our piano retirement community. (Or maybe I want to be a part of YOUR retirement community. Smiler )
 
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