Yesterday's exciting thing.

This is the summer live music season, so I haven't been home much - street fairs (Printer's Row book fair, Do Division fest with live music, free shows in park), bands, friends, writing, etc., blah. All very fun, don't get me wrong.


What made my day yesterday? Sitting on the Division Street bus at Halsted around 7 PM, looking into the vacant lot where the last Cabrini-Green housing project highrise was until a few months ago, and seeing a coyote right there. Beautiful long, lean reddish-grey specimen, very healthy-looking and handsome, trotting nonchalantly around the lot for a while and then jaywalking Halsted Street with more skill than most people, heading for the trees and brush along the river. I've seen them before in wilder places, but this my first Chicago coyote sighting, and it was such a great view with time to watch a while. (Yes, I've already reported it to copperbadge, who's fascinated with the coyotes of Chicago and collects reports. And yes, I know the animal in my icon is a fox, but it's the closest I've got.)