When our niece first went to Northwestern, we made a number of visits. At the time, there was an area at the south end of the campus that was a building site. We hadn’t been back since but now that building site is a cool new building. Since this was where the reception was held after Sara’s diploma presentation, I took the opportunity to grab a shot of it. Rather cool I think – the building, not my shot.
I decided to hang out with Seth Myers for a while. Admittedly, I did this at the same time as a few thousand other people. He was the commencement speaker at Northwestern University for 2016 and my niece, Sara, was graduating. While it might appear that there was no connection between Seth and me, I assure you that we were just playing it low key. Consequently, I took these pictures from a reasonable distance across the stadium. Maybe I have some more personal shots taken at another time? Maybe?
I was flying cross country and my layover was in Chicago at Midway. I had deliberately chosen a window seat on the right side of the plane in case we carried out the approach from the lake in order to have a view of the city. Sure enough, we did approach from that direction. As we headed out to the lake, I could see some showers over the water. At the time, I thought they would not show up well on a photo but the motion of video would make them more conspicuous. Consequently, I started filming some video on my phone.
I was focused on the screen and initially didn’t notice that the showers I was watching were a lot smaller than their neighbors! There was a big storm just north of the city. It came into view on the phone and then I gave it a bit more focus. Sadly, the phone does not always pick up the lightning bolts. However, I think you will get the idea of how big a storm it was. I know someone who was at O’Hare during the storm and they describe the effect as pretty dramatic. From my location, everything was totally smooth!