Robot Dreams

This past weekend I spent the afternoon at the Chicago Field Museum of Natural History. From a human perspective it's personally old and historically old. Personally because it's been around before myself, my parents, and my grandparents where born. And historically because it stores for display Nature's history. Last time I was there, I went with my immediate family to both look at the dinosaur exhibits and to watch my nephew look at the dinosaur exhibits. This time around I, actually we but more about that later, went to see the Aztec exhibit before it closed. Unfortunately, there's no picture taking in the exhibit so I can't show that. Instead I have two panoramas of one of the Haida Totem Poles in the main hall, and of the main hall looking at the South entrance:

So that's the "old" stuff... The "new" stuff is whom I went with, my new girlfriend Cynthia! And since she reads this blog (hi Cynthia) perhaps she will grace it with a comment OK, so you may be asking what the two parts, other than going together to the Museum, might have in common. Well it turns out that Cynthia is an archeologist currently studying the Maya in Belize, although she's obviously not in Belize right now.

Needless to say, there are many doors in Evanston. Here are two more from todays walking about.

Those two are from the same street I lived on now for about a decade. Most of the houses in this street fall into one of the historical districts of Evanston. Which means that you see houses that have been around since the founding of the city. And in some cases, have only been sold once! I'm still getting accustomed to the camera, which you can see as a flash artifact above. As I was using it for fill illumination as it's been a somewhat overcast day, and foggy morning, around here close to Lake Michigan.