{"id":707,"date":"2008-08-09T10:43:05","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T16:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/?p=707"},"modified":"2008-08-09T11:06:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-09T17:06:48","slug":"not-in-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog\/not-in-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"(Not) In the Wild : Chicago Pictorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got a (rare) opportunity to hang out as a family in the city.  We went to Lincoln Park Zoo for the bulk of the morning after the WGN Kid&#8217;s Fair (a few highlights for the BLD family below).  There we spent some time with the polar bears:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/contact.jpg\" alt=\"contact\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9593.jpg\" alt=\"touch\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and at the conservatory:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9576.jpg\" alt=\"orchid\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9573.jpg\" alt=\"orchid2\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9575.jpg\" alt=\"orchid3\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">but before we did any of that we did Baby Loves Disco for a few minutes on stage at the WGN Kid&#8217;s Fair::<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9441.jpg\" alt=\"bldpre\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9492.jpg\" alt=\"bld2\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9550.jpg\" alt=\"bld3\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9534.jpg\" alt=\"bld4\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9545.jpg\" alt=\"bld1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">and before all of this happened, the sun rose (at a ridiculously early hour) over the City of Chicago, one of the greatest cities ever (I may be a bit biased since I&#8217;ve lived in the area my whole life but no matter, it truly is&#8230;)  Somehow images don&#8217;t do moments like this justice:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.marmaladephotography.com\/blog-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/_D2O9424.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago Skyline from the Edens\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(and actually traffic was not that bad on the Eden&#8217;s)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">finally, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/lifexpressions.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terrilyn <\/a>had this on her blog and I&#8217;ve seen (and never shared) before&#8230;get your tissues, it&#8217;s a bit heartwrenching:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/adYbFQFXG0U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x402061&amp;color2=0x9461ca\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/adYbFQFXG0U&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x402061&amp;color2=0x9461ca\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks for stopping in.  Namaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we got a (rare) opportunity to hang out as a family in the city. We went to Lincoln Park Zoo for the bulk of the morning after the WGN Kid&#8217;s Fair (a few highlights for the BLD family below). 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