Summer finally came, in kind of a bi-polar way. Some glorious days, some sweltering days, but all were welcome.
We started to take advantage of the Morton Arboretum in suburban Chicago last year, and continue to visit it for beautiful morning walks through hundreds of acres. What is the difference between a walk and a hike, anyway?
It’s become our custom to follow those trips with a garden lunch at Piccolo Sogno, which I highly recommend as the closest thing out slow Italian afternoons on the Amalfi Coast.
June also included a trip down to Atlanta and a reunion with Chery Baird, my amazing art teacher, for a three day collage workshop. Even better, I was joined by my bestie Deb Lehman. I’d been stocking up collage fodder to start a new series called All My Dream Flew Out the Window – in the best possible way. Each piece is based on a beautiful view out of windows around the world and across time –
– the collage posted here is the view from a bathroom window – yes, a bathroom window- at a restaurant called Torre Normanna in Maiori on the Amalfi Coast, a spectacular place.