Happy St. Patrick's Day!

If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I'd never believe it. This past weekend the city of Chicago celebrated St. Patricks day with a really big parade and a very bright green river!  Isn't that the craziest thing? They turn the river green!

It's thought that a leprechaun appears very early and magically makes the river green. Turns out the tradition started with a plumber who approached the city with an idea to use a dye, initially developed to detect leaks into a river, to make this Chicago channel glow emerald. Other cities have tried to emulate this unique Chicago tradition, but for some strange reason or perhaps for the luck of the huge Irish population in this city, it only works here!

Happy St. Patrick's day!

Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat

It's been a while since I posted, I much preferred to stay inside because Chicago gets so cold and windy in the winter!

I did brave the February weather one day to meet Grandma at the Art Institute of Chicago. We walked around and looked at so many beautiful paintings but I think my favorite was this painting called Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat.

George Seurat was a French post-impressionist painter, which basically means his paintings are very colorful, and he used a unique method to imply light and color in his art. HIs method, or way of painting, was called "Pointillism." When I stood very close to the painting it appeared to be a whole bunch of little dots! I'm not much of a painter, but I do know that mixing red and yellow makes orange. Well, Mr. Seurat didn't so much mix the paints, but would paint a bunch of red and yellow dots really close together. Looking closely, the individual red and yellow dots are clear but from farther away they all blur together to appear as orange.

The little girl in the painting reminded me of you Ada, I think you'd love this piece of art.