MIDWEST AUTUMN

ST MARY’S RIVER, FORT WAYNE, INDIANA

I am having adventures quicker than I can write about them.

Two weeks after the fact, here are a few pix of my trip to give a talk in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the October 1 feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and thence on to Lake Forest, Illinois, with side trips to downtown Chicago, Oak Park for a tour of the Frank Lloyd Wright home and studio, and Libertyville to the St. Maximilian Kolbe Shrine and a walk around the lake at the adjacent Mundelein Seminary.

I was insanely graciously, luxuriously, meticulously, hosted. I had Lou Malnati deep-dish pizza and a hot dog, swatched in acid-green relish, from Porfirio’s.

I walked along the banks of Lake Michigan.

I saw Edward Hopper’s “Nighthawks” at the Art Institute.

And most importantly and notably–I made a new friend.

LURIE GARDEN, MILLENIUM PARK, CHICAGO“FOUR SEASONS,” PUBLIC SCULPTURE, MARC CHAGALL,
DOWNTOWN CHICAGOGROUNDS OF MUNDELEIN SEMINARYMIDDLEFORK SAVANNA, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS