Janet's Place

This is some of my recent work from Richard's portrait class. 

Elisabeth, from November: 

According to a 2008 survey by Technorati, which runs a search engine for blogs, only 7.4 million out of the 133 million blogs the company tracks had been updated in the past 120 days. That translates to 95 percent of blogs being essentially abandoned, left to lie fallow on the Web, where they become public remnants of a dream -- or at least an ambition -- unfulfilled.

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This quote appeared in an article in the New York Times today.  Just wanted you know my blog is not abandoned ... just not updated recently!

Harry, Nancy and Jim went to Lincoln Park Zoo last Saturday.  Harry took these great zoo pictures.

Harry and Nancy stopped at the Indiana Dunes on their way into Chicago.  Harry took these great pictures of the Dunes in March on a cold and windy day.

Saturday was a pretty nice day so Jim decided to walk around the neighborhood and take pictures of various apartment and condo buildings.  But first some pictures of 2800 North Lake Shore Drive and the immediate area.

"2800"

On one of our nicer winter days, Jim decided to visit Lincoln Park Zoo.  For you older folks, you may remember Lincoln Park Zoo as the setting for Marlin Perkins's "Zoo Parade" back in the "dark ages" of black and white television.

Lincoln Park is overrun with those pesky Canada geese.  Sometimes they are fun to look at though ... as when they are walking on the ice on the frozen North Lagoon.

Jim hasn't experienced winter for an extended time since 1996!  He went out and took these pictures after Chicago's first measurable snowfall of the winter.

City view in the winter, looking South toward the Hancock Building

Well, if is September it must be John.  I think this is the 6th or 7th drawing I've done of John.  Richard has him model for the first class every year.

It's a beautiful day in Chicago and America! 

Obama begins life as president-elect

Jim and I took a walk in Grant Park to see the set up for the Obama Rally.  It was a beautiful day ... over 70 F on November 3 in Chicago !!

This is the first mobile unit we saw: