A bunch of professional bicyclists from around the world race through Beverly Hills neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. The race is mere blocks from where I grew up! The race track through the neighborhood is a little over one mile long, they go around it 50 times.
The really cool part is that a bunch of people from the neighborhood all come and watch the race from people’s lawns. You can stand on anybody’s lawn and go right up to the edge of the street and literally feel the breeze. People are out there drinking and kids are playing. More people should know about this event, it should become just as popular as the south side irish parade. It happens every year in July.
Cool things:
— Being able to get some close-up action photos of cyclists zooming by
— Bed mattresses wrapped around poles
— Walk around the beautiful neighborhood
— Talk to friendly people (if you are so inclined)
Leave a comment below and click the “notify” button, and when the race comes up next year, I’ll give you advance notice of when and where it will be.
WOW! Guess what!? I can see your flickr pix here at work now!! OH JOY! OH RAPTURE!! That 1st picture is AMAZING!
Tom, you can see flickr photos at work now!? OH WOW. You know every time I made a post, I would think about how you couldn’t see the photos at work. And when I saw you commented on this post, I was thinking, “gee, i wonder how Tom was able to comment when he can’t see the flickr photos.” COOL! you can now see flickr photos. yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay! yeah, I do like that first one. I shot it a couple years ago and i was using the flash. The flash works very well. The other photos are from this year, and I wasn’t being as bold to get super close.
It’s a darn exciting day!
Yes it is an exciting day! 1) Tom is able to view flickr photos at work 2) Harvest Moon 3) End of summer: First day the boats went down the Chicago River leaving Lake Michigan 4) Elephant Appreciation Day! @.j.@ 5) Rebirth of Spudart Fan Page. I’m going to start using my Facebook Fan Page more starting today. Before I had it set to just auto-import blog posts. But now I’m going to cut off the blog posts to my personal profile and now have them only on the Facebook Fan Page (and spudart.org). Plus, I’ll be posting other ideas to the Fan Page. Instead of posting many of my ideas to @spudart on twitter, i’ll be posting them to the Facebook Fan Page instead. I haven’t gotten that much interaction on Twitter, so I’m going to give the Fan Page a shot. Like boxes have been installed on the homepage of spudart.org and on all the blog posts. I’m quite excited.
Locals even bring their bikes to the edge of the action as shown here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spudart/5011639458
It was a “Super Harvest Moon” … literally AND figuratively!
6) I discovered After-Words a used and new bookstore just a few blocks from Tribune Tower.