Archives for December 2012

Grocery Geography

I often tell people that Bolingbrook is a diverse community. We say things like, “My block is like the United Nations!” Another fun place to see this is at one of our big box grocery stores: Daikon radish, yucca root, a melon (?), wheatgrass, leeks, carrots… But let’s start with some hard data. 2010 census […]

December Dog Walk

I love taking walks in winter. It’s still. Nobody is around. Everything is exposed down to the most basic level. And I love the cold, when I have a coat and gloves, anyway. Of course, gloves have to come off for taking photos, so for a number of these, so I lost the feeling in […]

Take 12, December

Our tree, daytime. House ornament! I got this “Advent box” (?) from Target a few years ago, and each door has a slip or two of paper with verses that match the Jesse Tree ornaments I’ve been collecting… Jesse tree — a bare branch with ornaments that represent Old Testament stories — creation, the ram […]