Eye candy Friday, the catching up edition.

This is the huge bouquet that was sitting on a high counter in the center of the information booth at the entrance to the Art Institute of Chicago. I don't know if the flowers were real. They certainly looked real. And forsythia -- the long yellow sprays -- are an easily forced late winter/early spring flower. The contrast between the spring-like flowers and the zero-degree air outside the doors just a few feet away was breathtaking.