Winter Parking Chicago Style

After back breaking shoveling to free your car,

you need and have the right to claim that parking spot, right?

Whether or not you agree with the long held Chicago tradition of claiming a parking space with furniture, you have to admit it's pretty darn amazing that most of these pieces don't walk away with a new "owner".

Snow Storm 2011

It started at about 3 PM on Tuesday, right in time for rush hour - not so fun - and continued until about 11 AM Wednesday - so fun.

Snow, snow, snow, peaceful wind blowing full fledged snow!

The third "worst" snow storm on record in Chicago - IT WAS WONDERFUL!!!

The next morning cars were buried . . .

and buried.

Even the beautiful beast - buried a few hours before this picture - well done Dad.

The streets were free to roam . . .

and the neighborhood was out shoveling . . .

shoveling . . .

and shoveling.

With a little surfing between.

This block of people didn't wait for the city plows, they took the bulls by the horn and shoveled it out themselves - I love that!!!!

After a building shoveling-arama, it was to the pool for margaritas and warmth.

The next day, I walked a block east to this main thoroughfare. It was like another world. Cars were in use, not buried under snow or shoveled free but for what - the side streets were still under 20 inches.

Eleanor Roosevelt

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these right have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."

Eleanor Roosevelt BEAUTIFUL!!!!