it’s so spring / i’m so back

random snowfall instantly melting once the sun comes out to signal that winter is about over in anthropocene chicago. albany park photo from a few years ago around this time

tried leaving the house for a singular winter time–finding excursion because jade showed me some tik-toks of what ice melting over lake michigan looks/sounds like, but alas, despite monitoring the weather on the day I choose the lake was definitively unfrozen. so, just a shitty recording of me smooshing the ice next to the lake + random shouting children. but I rode my bike / touched grass = mission accomplished.

coincidentally I recently learned from a comment on an excelent video about what the game skyrim would feed like in real life that ice doesn’t freeze over a lake until it’s well below freezing point, so there ya go.

early sketch on the yamaha v50

i always let fall pass me by (probably the winter person in me getting too excited to shut myself away). tried to get some captures in this year before it was too late.

this one came to me — fall leaves heard through the window on a windy night

(no i won’t explain the picture)

getting ready for winter late night voice memo sketch on the kawai k4. thinking about ant colonies that raise mushrooms

what we heard while we watched the lunar eclipse at montrose bird sanctuary (the birds were sleeping of course)

this summer has had its dark moments, but this image of the recurring full SD card pile represents the things I’m really grateful for <3 here are some snippets (at home)

watching an impending storm front pass over me in the wetland park, shooting range attendees emptying their magazines before the rain, tall grass working as an excellent windshield. I got incredibly wet after, I guess it was worth it?