Lake Michigan ice sheet breaks off

 Video from Chicago's Hancock Tower earlier this week:

Ten Thousand Ripples

Indira Johnson's Ten Thousand Ripples Buddha heads close to where I live.  http://www.indirajohnson.com/ten-thousand-ripples.html

 

Photos: Marge Ishmael

 

Playing for Change: All Along the Watchtower

Great version of Bob Dylan's "All Along the Watchtower," featuring Chicago blues harmonica player Billy Branch and Lakota Sioux singers... and many other artists.

All is Found

 Love this, apart from there's a loud and strange beep at the very beginning (for some reason):

Playing possum

 

Trump’s Parting Shot at the Arctic Refuge on its 60th Anniversary

 

Photo: Vladsilver/Istock  

 

Sierra Club article link: https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/trump-s-parting-shot-arctic-refuge-its-60th-anniversary

Bailly Homestead in N.W. Indiana

 A walk though the woods in N.W. Indiana. French Canadian fur trader Joseph Bailly established a trading post here in 1822; the only stopping point between Fort Dearborn/Chicago and Detroit. Bailly was one of the first non-native settlers and Potawatomi were the dominant Native American tribe in N.W. Indiana at the time.