Mom's Visit - Chicago Botanical Gardens

My mother and I took a trip to the Chicago Botanical Gardens in the afternoon (after I gave a final at Lake Forest). Although the weather could have been sunnier, we were lucky to catch the bulbs in bloom! Carpets of beautiful colors!

Tiptoeing through the tulips!

Oriental poppies...

When they all bloom, there will be over a thousand!

Crabapple trees were in bloom and were so fragrant!

Japanese Garden with its island of paradise in the middle

I loved these lacey tulips!

More colorful tulips....

These "bleeding hearts" are my favorites!

These pink and blue flowers were my mom's favorites!

More crabapple trees.....

I love these purple tulips!

And I like these upside-down tulips

I had a hard time getting this robin to cooperate-- he didn't want his photo taken!

Mom's Visit - Trip to Lake Forest College

I was a visiting professor of French this semester at Lake Forest College (about 20 miles north of where I live in Evanston). It's a small private liberal arts college in the wealthiest township in Illinois.
This is the building where my office and the Modern Languages department is. (You can tell that my mom took the picture because it doesn't really show anything.... ;-)

The library.... Can you believe this was taken in May?!?! It still looks like winter!

The other building where I taught my literature class. I think it's referred to as the "castle".