The start of the fall semester begins next week; it's labor day weekend; and I've missed a couple of entries, again.  I was so hoping to keep up this blog every week but it just isn't happening.  Oh well.  

I visited the Japanese Garden behind the Museum of Science & Industry a couple of years ago in the fall and photographed the entrance.  I remember watching a man practice tai chi and looking out toward the water.  It made me think about the history of the place--about the Columbian Exposition of 1893 and who designed the "Wooded Isle" -- Frederick Olmsted.  Although the landscaped has changed since 1893 (and the name), it was the idea of designing a sense of peace and calm to what may have been an overdone "white city" I thought was genius.  It's worth seeing the reflection of the Science & Industry building on the water at sunset from the Garden.  

My mannequin (dressed in a Cristobal Balenciaga dress) stands at the entrance to the Garden.