Blackbird sitting on a HOSPITAL sign...
Wednesday's trip home from Chicago took forever. (Or so the the three girls in the back seat would say.) I called it quality time with my girls. *

One cool moment was when I looked out and saw a red-winged blackbird sitting on a big blue "H" hospital sign (don't remember the last time I saw a red-winged blackbird outside of a book) And, unlike trying to point out a bird among a bunch of trees or bushes - with a whisper lest it fly away - it was so easy to draw everyone's attention to the big blue H. A bird sitting along the Kennedy Expressway isn't particularly sensitive to noise, either.

*Bridget, thinking all of Chicago is compressed into a small area thought we should take a detour to Resurrection Cemetery
to look for Resurrection Mary. So much for giving her those Weird... books. Should have given her maps so she could see how far the far North Shore is from the southwest suburbs. As it was, Emily was so tired of the kvetching from the backseat that she was ready to leave us all on the side of the road.