Today was the perfect day for an outdoor adventure. We headed to the Chicago Botanic Gardens to “tree peep” and check out the haunted railroad garden.
Cloudy with a 30% chance of rain morphed into sunny and too warm for our fall jackets. The gardens were explosively gorgeous, shades of orange, red, yellow, and green. As you can see above, the gardeners have been beyond creative in using natural materials to makes things that haunt, crawl, creep, and wow.




After lunch, we took a scenic car ride (read: let Charlotte nap in the car) and headed to our synagogue for a concert by Dan Nichols. The true highlight was that our friends Mhari and Ava were accompanying Mr. Nichols with their temple choirs. Charlotte could barely contain her excitement and had to be convinced not to interrupt the concert to say hello. She’s never been so close to celebrity (the girls, not Mr. Nichols). *I’m not posting a picture because I never post other people’s children without explicit permission, in case you’re concerned after reading today’s New York Times.