By-the - by, our new enlarged and tinted photographs look very nice on the walls, especially as Carrie has arranged some Liberty silk bows on the four corners of them.

In Chicago I took pictures of landmarks like the Water Tower and Lake Shore Drive, and after we got home I developed them in my darkroom (photography was another of my hobbies).

Their sketches are all based on telescopic views of the Red Planet from earlier this year, near its 2010 opposition.