V-Day 2012, Part 1

The first in a series of photos leading up to February 14.

Every Picture Tells a Story: 2/7/12

Every Picture Tells a Story: 2/6/12

Every Picture Tells a Story: 2/3/12

Every Picture Tells a Story: 2/2/12

This is how things looked a little over a week ago--and how they're supposed to look in Chicago in winter. Things don't look like this now. It's warm. Trees are budding. Flowers are pushing up through the supposed-to-be-frozen-solid grass. Mother nature is soooooo confused. How will the groundhog react when he's dragged kicking and screaming (assuming for a second that groundhogs do, in fact, scream) from his toasty hole this morning?

One Year Ago Today

Chicago was buried under nearly two feet of snow.

Today? It's relatively warm--in the upper 40s--and what little snow there is on the ground can be found in smallish mounds at the edges of parking lots or against garage walls.

Every Picture Tells a Story: 2/1/12