Since Memorial Day landed pretty early on the calendar this year, Combo Breaker was also earlier than usual, which meant that we were able to catch the tail end of tulip time on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Yes, they were largely faded, but we still got to see some flowers as well as the tulip sculptures that herald the spring season on the Magnificent Mile.
Maybe someday I’ll see them at the height of their bloom!
You know how much I like a public art project, so when we stumbled across the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum’s “Flight of Butterflies” exhibition on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, I was really excited. My children were, I think, a little afraid that I was going to try to find all of the butterflies, but I was satisfied to see eight (and photograph seven) of the sculptures as we walked down the Magnificent Mile. I think that’s pretty good for an art exhibit I didn’t even know about until we arrived!
