No Fixed Plans

  Thursday Doors, a weekly feature allowing door lovers to come together to admire and share their favorite door photos from around the world. Feel free to join in on the fun by creating your own Thursday Doors post each week and then sharing your link in the comments below, anytime between 12:01 am Thursday morning and Saturday noon (North American eastern time). This week I'm sharing a door I saw in the Monestery of the Holy Cross in Chicago at 3101 S. Aberdeen. It's covered in red leather and embossed with a cross made with brass tacks. To see more doors go to No Facilities . 

  Weekend Coffee Share   is a time for us to take a break out of our lives and enjoy some timely catching up with friends (old and new)! If we were having coffee, I would say, "Let's go to Open House Chicago !" Like other cities Chicago opens its doors, many that are private, to the public to show of its great architecture.I could only go one day this year. I wanted to volunteer, but then this job requires that I work on Sundays.  While not as many sites were open as in the past at least this year some sites were open unlike last year when everything was either virtual or exterior only. Still there were well over 100 sites to view. Since I've done downtown in the past, I wanted to explore outlying neighborhoods. I started in Rogers Park with the Lang House, a restored Arts and Crafts home that's been restored and is available for rental for events or accommodations. Lang House I moved on to Edgewater where I stopped in the neighborhood's historical society bef...