Late Christmas Eve

More Christmas Eve video is here at Family Squiggles.

After Baptism

Latrobe Twice

Latrobe between Washington Blvd and Madison, times two.

Baptism

View slide show of images from this video.

Riding the Great Wall

Brian is Facebooking from China.

Catch a Falling Star

From Aquinasville.

50th Reunion

Danseuses

Alice posted this video, but I wondered what it would look like if they'd had an impressionist painter recording them instead of a video camera. A little applied software gives us a hint:

The Crowd Roars

Windy

State after Dark

More Lupins

The Remus Lupins

Went to see the Bean and found The Remus Lupins:

Michigan to Lake to State

In case you haven't been downtown after dark lately:

Dave is 60

The clan gets together for a surprise celebration. And it's in the POPE ROOM. 
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Angels Watching

Entrance

Amber

After Mass 2

After Mass

In a Row

Ode to Joy

Day and Night

From the balcony:

Apples and Bananas

New camera just out of the box and charged up: Take it shopping.

New Camera

Arrived today. Took it out for a spin.

Latrobe

The street where I grew up on the West Side. A vacant lot replaces our house, our neighbors', and a large apartment building. Further down the street, wild greenery abounds.




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Rainy Day

School Days: Fifty years later.




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Sunday, Dusk

It's a bumpy ride chasing the setting sun, weaving around construction workers and lane closures. Couldn't have managed if You Tube hadn't just raised maximum show time from ten to fifteen minutes. Ludwig keeps things moving along.

Shepherd's Pie

and Guinness. We took advantage of a break in the heat wave to dine outside at Molly Malone's.

Foggy Day Chicago

South Wabash, Saturday Night

1915

Found on Flickr: A seventh grade class at St Thomas Aquinas grammar school on the West Side of Chicago in 1915. View Larger.

Greetings from Florida

Video taken by and emailed from an iPhone:

Mt Carmel Visit

Stormy

Hangin'

At Panera.

Rest in Peace

A visit to the cemetery.

Broadview

Driving along 20th.

Groovy

Reconstruction continues on the Eisenhower Expressway, but going downtown can still be GROOVY if one has the right music.

Who Was That Tall Man?

Seen at Forest Park Summerfest and Taste of Chicago:

Gargoyle Ahead

Waiting for the light to change on Congress Parkway. Through the rain, looming up ahead atop the public library, can be seen a huge menacing gargoyle. Are any of us safe?

Cool Off

.... at Buckingham Fountain.

Toads

Irish tourist shows interest in midwest toads.

Enough Pictures

Ireland 1989

The clan gathered to celebrate my aunt's fifty years in the convent.

Band in the Park

I didn't catch the name of the band and couldn't understand the lyrics. As the video shows, my attention began to wander.

Heading Downtown

A trip downtown on the Lake Street elevated provides an architectural tour including buildings left over from the nineteenth century as well as stuff hot off the drawing board.

Baptism

Here's my first experiment with serendipitizing a slide show:

In Church:



After Church:



Picture quality leaves something to be desired, doesn't match the Flickr slide show.

Update: It's all part of the learning curve. The software I'm using offers a choice between widescreen or 4x3. Since the photos are 4x3, I chose that setting, not realizing the software took that to mean I wanted standard definition. I've reconverted part one and re-uploaded it, and now it can be viewed in high definition. I'm working on doing the same for part two.

Run Over

Cousins separated by an ocean meet for the first time.

Hop and Paint

It's never too early to teach them to DANCE (Forest Park Summerfest chapter).

Crowds at Taste

Taste of Chicago featured far fewer restaurants this year, but still drew lots of CROWDS. Don't watch this if you're claustrophobic.

Lexington

Here's a little drive down Lexington Street where my grandparents raised their large family during the twenties, thirties, and forties. Some family history can be found here, and here's a 1930 U.S. Census form completed on Lexington Street.

Expressway at Night

Driving home from work on the Eisenhower.

Under the EL

Driving west on Lake Street under the CTA elevated train. The ride ends at Laramie where I used to get my haircuts when I was a wee lad.

Piece of Cake

Video: Piece of Cake, originally uploaded by dtimcarr.

Things we learn: How to express ourselves and speak up for those who can't.

Update (July 14): Discovered last evening that Flickr videos can't be viewed on iTouch (or presumably, iPhone). Here's the same video on You Tube:

Sibling Dynamics

Video: Twins, originally uploaded by dtimcarr.

A brief glimpse of twins interacting.

Update (July 14): Discovered last evening that Flickr videos can't be viewed on iTouch (or presumably, iPhone). Here's the same video on You Tube:

Testing 2: You Tube

Blogging a Flickr video worked out okay. Now to try 'embedding' a You Tube video. Here are five of my mom's seven great grandchildren playing together (more or less) on July 4th.

Testing 1: Flickr

Video: Street Scene, originally uploaded by dtimcarr.

It's been a while since I played around with Blogger. To test things out, I'm blogging a video that I uploaded to Flickr. I shot it last week from the elevated platform at Adams and Wabash while I was headed to Taste of Chicago.

Update (July 14): Discovered last evening that Flickr videos can't be viewed on iTouch (or presumably, iPhone). Here's the same video on You Tube: