I still cannot believe we live a five-minute walk from this:
Chicago skyline in the distance, about six miles south
Walked out a little way but the wind was fierce and the walkway encased in ice
Lots of people out on cross-country skis or snowshoes, walking their dogs
Snow was past my knees when I walked out on the beach to take this one
The waves were crashing up against the snowdrifts on the beach
All of these photos were taken at Pratt Beach, 6800 North.
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“Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragical romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns.”
Little Women
“Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.”
Little Men
“My definition [of a philosopher] is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down.”
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.”
Work: A Story of Experience
“All I have to say is, that you men have more liberty than you know what to do with, and we women haven't enough.”
The King of Clubs and
the Queen of Hearts
“There is no fairy-book half so wonderful as the lovely world all about us, if we only know how to read it.”
Morning-Glories
“I don't waste ink in poetry and pages of rubbish now. I've begun to live, and have no time for sentimental musing.”
Louisa May Alcott: Her Life,
Letters, and Journals
“To live for one's principles, at all costs, is a dangerous speculation . . .”
Transcendental Wild Oats: A Chapter from an Unwritten Romance
“When women set their hearts on anything it is a known fact that they seldom fail to accomplish it.”
Mrs. Podgers' Teapot
“Love bewilders the wisest, and it would make me quite blind or mad, I know; therefore I'd rather have nothing to do with it for a long, long while.”
Moods
“These hearts of ours are curious and contrary things.”
Little Women
“Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling.”
An Old-Fashioned Girl
“One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world.”
Jack and Jill
“I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.”
Little Women
“It takes two flints to make a fire.”
Little Women
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Kelly,
Beautiful pictures.
Kelly: Thanks for sharing these amazing pictures. They make me miss Chicago – though I shiver in front of my computer screen as I recollect the wind! I’m only sorry I never had the chance to visit your neighborhood while I lived there; your beach and skyline view is gorgeous.
so pretty! we want a little of that snow down south. a *little.*
These are gorgeous! I went to college in Chicago and miss the beautiful winters terribly now that I live in Virginia, where a half inch of snow leads to extensive grumbling and shuts down school for a day…or two or three. Thanks for sharing (and for the great shout-out on your blogroll)!
Where did you go to college??