Constance
@constancereid.bsky.social
Chicago gal. Life-long Democrat. Animal lover.
Our old dog loved fall.
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Our old dog loved fall.
Remember when we had 'government cheese' in the 1980s? Why don't they consider making government tofu today?
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Remember when we had 'government cheese' in the 1980s? Why don't they consider making government tofu today?
Since 2022, Texas has sent 32,500 migrants to Chicago. Now, they've sent Border Patrol agents to take undocumented migrants into custody. WTF? They already HAD them and could have processed them in Texas in the first place.
October 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Since 2022, Texas has sent 32,500 migrants to Chicago. Now, they've sent Border Patrol agents to take undocumented migrants into custody. WTF? They already HAD them and could have processed them in Texas in the first place.
#31DaysofGraves "Color" Gravesite of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. The background is a burst of colorful fall foliage.
October 30, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#31DaysofGraves "Color" Gravesite of Thomas Rice Lyon and his wife Harriet, Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. The background is a burst of colorful fall foliage.
It's National Cat Day today! (29 October)
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)
October 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's National Cat Day today! (29 October)
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)
Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, purr, purr, purr. (nod to Big Bang Theory)
#31DaysOfGraves "Occupation" Grave marker of William Ambrose Hulbert (1832-1882), one of the founders of baseball's National League. He was also president of the Chicago White Stockings team.
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Occupation" Grave marker of William Ambrose Hulbert (1832-1882), one of the founders of baseball's National League. He was also president of the Chicago White Stockings team.
#31DaysOfGraves "Column" A column is nice, but 16 are even better. Grave of Palmer family. The two sarcophagi are for Potter Palmer (1826-1902) and his wife Bertha (1850-1918). Three generations of Palmer descendants are buried in the floor. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
October 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Column" A column is nice, but 16 are even better. Grave of Palmer family. The two sarcophagi are for Potter Palmer (1826-1902) and his wife Bertha (1850-1918). Three generations of Palmer descendants are buried in the floor. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
#31DaysOfGraves "Tree" This grave in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, marks the resting place of George S. Bangs. While serving in the administration of Ulysses Grant, Mr. Bangs developed the railroad mail car. This achievement is memorialized in the base of the stone tree.
October 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Tree" This grave in Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, marks the resting place of George S. Bangs. While serving in the administration of Ulysses Grant, Mr. Bangs developed the railroad mail car. This achievement is memorialized in the base of the stone tree.
#31DaysOfGraves "Figure" This statue casually sits atop the gravestone of Dr. Christopher Manuel who died suddenly while riding his bicycle along the lakefront (presumed coronary failure). He was only 40 at his death. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
October 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Figure" This statue casually sits atop the gravestone of Dr. Christopher Manuel who died suddenly while riding his bicycle along the lakefront (presumed coronary failure). He was only 40 at his death. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
#31DaysOfGraves "Ornament" This Laredo Taft sculpture, called Eternal Silence, stands over the plot of Dexter Graves' family in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is commonly referred to as the Statue of Death.
October 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Ornament" This Laredo Taft sculpture, called Eternal Silence, stands over the plot of Dexter Graves' family in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is commonly referred to as the Statue of Death.
#31DaysOfGraves "Landscape" Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is also a certified arboretum with fifty varieties of over 2,000 trees.
October 22, 2025 at 8:20 PM
#31DaysOfGraves "Landscape" Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It is also a certified arboretum with fifty varieties of over 2,000 trees.
#31DaysOfGraves Peter Schoenhofen (1827-1893) Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It features the unlikely combination of an Egyptian pyramid structure, flanked by a sphinx on the right and a typical Victorian era angel on the left. Suggested that he may have been hedging his bet on the afterlife.
October 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#31DaysOfGraves Peter Schoenhofen (1827-1893) Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It features the unlikely combination of an Egyptian pyramid structure, flanked by a sphinx on the right and a typical Victorian era angel on the left. Suggested that he may have been hedging his bet on the afterlife.
#31DaysofGraves Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect. His dates of birth and death are inscribed on the gold cube, his name is on the south and west interior sides. People visiting the cemetery interact with this by moving the smooth stones at its base onto the walls and inside the sculpture.
October 3, 2025 at 1:37 AM
#31DaysofGraves Stanley Tigerman, Chicago architect. His dates of birth and death are inscribed on the gold cube, his name is on the south and west interior sides. People visiting the cemetery interact with this by moving the smooth stones at its base onto the walls and inside the sculpture.
Final Fat Bear Week vote tomorrow.
September 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Final Fat Bear Week vote tomorrow.
Thugs looking for trouble or just 'tourists' on a Sunday stroll downtown? Somebody tell them Chicago is not a border city. They have no business here.
September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thugs looking for trouble or just 'tourists' on a Sunday stroll downtown? Somebody tell them Chicago is not a border city. They have no business here.
Does this body make my head look small?
![A large female bear wades in shallow water on the Brooks Falls riverbank in Katmai, Alaska. Photo taken from explore[dot]org cam.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j7ywwmxgcjz5sbyzxncm2rqg/bafkreicimgfc3mgiwb47fowvkd6sj4msorp2uckbfvndudn35tr6a2iuum@jpeg)
August 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Does this body make my head look small?
The question I ask voters regarding Administration jobs in the government: Do you want someone competent, or do you want a Republican?
August 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
The question I ask voters regarding Administration jobs in the government: Do you want someone competent, or do you want a Republican?
Kitty is very interested in the sparrows visiting the bush outside the window.
July 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Kitty is very interested in the sparrows visiting the bush outside the window.
When things are just too much....
July 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
When things are just too much....
The shock of disbelief “seeing a familiar landscape transformed by the addition of the unfamiliar, living among everyday sights suddenly made bizarre, no longer feeling at home in places they had known all their lives.” LA in 2025? No, Paris 1940. (quote from Historian Ian Ousby)
July 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The shock of disbelief “seeing a familiar landscape transformed by the addition of the unfamiliar, living among everyday sights suddenly made bizarre, no longer feeling at home in places they had known all their lives.” LA in 2025? No, Paris 1940. (quote from Historian Ian Ousby)
In Iowa on July 3 Trump said: “[Democrats] wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that? I really do. I hate them.”
Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.
Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.
July 4, 2025 at 2:08 PM
In Iowa on July 3 Trump said: “[Democrats] wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know that? I really do. I hate them.”
Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.
Happy 4th of July to my compatriots hated by the president of the United States.
The bear cams started streaming this week at Katmai. Here's Grazer and her yearling Biggie.
June 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The bear cams started streaming this week at Katmai. Here's Grazer and her yearling Biggie.
Settling in for a nice long holiday weekend.
May 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Settling in for a nice long holiday weekend.
If you have pet life insurance on your cat, your claim will be denied 8 times before they pay out.
April 28, 2025 at 2:24 PM
If you have pet life insurance on your cat, your claim will be denied 8 times before they pay out.