Off to the Major

The very first stop for almost every baseball fan in Illinois would have to be the haloed ivy covered walls of Wrigley Field. I secured tickets early in the season of 2005, April 13th, a day game of course. My youngest son, Kaleb, was just happy to get a day out of school. Because of a rainout the day before we going to be treated to a double header, Woods and Prior, on our way to the game we were thinking how lucky we were. That was until we arrived at the "Friendly Confines" , for those not familiar with Wrigley it sits in the north side of Chicago in an area called Wrigleyville. Lake Michigan is visible from the upper deck, and when the wind is coming in off that lake in early spring, wow it gets cold fast, the kind of cold wind that just cuts right through you. We were dressed for cool weather but were not prepared for the arctic conditions at the park. After taking my photos and having a couple of hotdogs ( which Kaleb said were the best he had ever had ) and seeing that Kaleb was turning an ashy shade of blue we decided to leave and get some shots of the neighborhood and cruise slowly homeward. All in all it was a good day, Kaleb had his first Major League experience, I got my photos, and neither one of were too severely frostbite. "Gate F" is one of the paintings from that day, the painting is 24" x 60" it is currently on loan to the Health Clubs at Rivercity and prints are available in various sizes.