Reason for a Change-Mitch’s Blog

Eileen and I went to Chicago for the 4th of July week, a bookend sort of time with Deb and Johnandrew’s wedding in Lafayette at the beginning and out neice Jessica’s Shower at the other end. We like to drive slow on the non-interstate roads, and so drove to Spencer and up SR 231 to Lafayette. The wedding was in an historic building amid other old buildings, Layfayette is obviously older than Bloomington, at least in the houses that have survived. We stayed the night, and headed towards Chicago by going east into Illinois and the Kankakee river. There are two roads that run parallel to the river into the city of Kankakee. On the north side are entrances to various parts of the state park, while on the south side are parking lots with access for fisherman and hunters. We took this southern road and pulled over to enjoy the cooling river current.

We found these butterflies were interested in the gravel that lead to the river, they just keep landing and spreading their wings in the sunlight.