The Cubs are making a statement tonight. Let's see how it finishes.
Bill Koechling
@billkoechling.bsky.social
full-time photographer for 50+ years, listening to your stories... “The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street.” –Robert Doisneau
Sky over the prairie in Illinois © 2021 William Koechling
Jazz at Douglass Park in Chicago © 2006 William Koechling
Posture Day at the Art Institute of Chicago Woman views Picasso's "Old Guitarist" © 2025 William Koechling
While clearing out my mother-in-law's house a couple of years ago we found about 50 old dolls, some going back to the 1920s. Five generations have played with these and some still grace the playrooms of a couple of our grandchildren. © 2021 William Koechling
These guys are helping with tornado cleanup today. The helpers are cute and the price is right.
Kitchen in our first apartment With the exception of the Royal Portable typewriter, everything in this photo is gone including the apartment which was the second floor of a Civil War-era house. Our grandchildren love using the typewriter. © 1974 William Koechling
Marshall Field & Company, Oakbrook Shopping Center - Oakbrook, IL © 1974 William Koechling
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust © 2023 William Koechling
Montauk extreme fisherman with striped bass © 1999 William Koechling
While we wrestle with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune around us my granddaughter fights her own battles on the icy planet Hoth.
1/2) William places flowers on his great grandma Jane's coffin at my mother-in-law's burial service today.
hands at a Sri Lankan wedding © 2009 William Koechling
a home (and hedge) in Schilde, Belgium © 2019 William Koechling
In 2001, Walter Cronkite appeared on the David Letterman show and shared his thoughts.
Walter Cronkite died on this day in 2009. I took this photo on the night of his last news broadcast. "That's the way it is..." © 1981 William Koechling
Usually the sun would be blinding this time of evening. Sunset through black-eyed Susans through a filter of wildfire smoke © 2026 William Koechling
Purple Daylilies in wildfire-diffused light © 2026 William Koechling
Normally there are lots and lots of birds flying around our neighborhood. There are none out there now. Zero. I guess they don't like smoke either.
Hey fellow Chicago-area friends. Can we hold our collective breaths for a couple of days?
There's a significantly different look to the setting sun when there are wildfires even hundreds of miles away. This one was from June of 2023.
From Chicago to Portland, Maine were getting ready for apocalypsescape views again. This one from 2020 near Chicago.
"The Constitution supposes, what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it. It has accordingly with studied care, vested the question of war in the Legislature." - James Madison
when she dances on the front porch... © 2026 William Koechling
Happy 72nd birthday to Andre Dawson. © William Koechling
Butterfly spotted, the chase is on... © 2026 William Koechling
C'mon, @hcrichardson.bsky.social... you know the US needs you and we know you want to, and besides, history is on your side.
Happy 4th (on the 6th) Brooklyn - Williamsburg Store Window © 2014 William Koechling
