Saturday coffee.
The street art of Chicago’s Vicente Jasso Jr.The calories in a Peets large latte is the same as in a 12 ounce can of Coke.
They’re not sugar calories. But they are calories just the same. There’s a lot of milk in a large latte, even if it’s non-fat. And calories are calories even if they’re not fat calories.
So this morning I shifted over to a cafe au lait.
It is part of my retiree life-style change of eating more carefully and exercising regularly at a gym and working with a trainer.
But not today. Not on Saturdays.
It is a beautiful morning in Chicago. After enduring a week of cold and gray the sun is shining. The sky is blue. The streets have turned white. Not from snow but from the dusting of salt and chemicals that remains after the melting of our record setting - so far for this year – two inches of snow.
Chicago has a long history of public murals. In the seventies there was even an organization of artists knows as
Old school.
Dr. John.