<p>Spring has finally arrived in Chicago!&#160; The South Loop looked perfect today with the sun shining on brick buildings on Printer's Row.&#160;&#160; Sadly, I didn't have my camera on me!&#160; So I decided that today would be a perfect date to debut pictures from when the Boy and I started dating.&#160; Looking back, that summer went by so fast - but summer romances always make summers go by too fast, no?</p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0111.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-345" title="IMG_0111" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0111.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: left">On the swan boat rides at the <a href="http://www.lpzoo.org/">Lincoln Park Zoo</a>, a small urban zoo in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago.&#160; During the summer months, you can hear the lion roar almost three blocks away and all year the hyenas bay when they hear passing car horns.&#160; The LP Zoo has an astounding collection of monkeys and there seem to be several births every year!</p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0113.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-346" title="IMG_0113" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="484" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0113.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0114.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-347" title="IMG_0114" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0114.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: left">I like to growl at the camera and I am building quite a collection of these photos.&#160; That lovely purse is from my mother and I wish the strap hadn't torn - it was so <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058329/">Marnie</a>!</p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0115.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-348" title="IMG_0115" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0115.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0116.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-349" title="IMG_0116" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="732" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0116.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center">I'm surprised that we started matching our outfits this early in the relationship:)</p>  <p><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0117.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-350" title="IMG_0117" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0117.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center">Flamingos are a favorite - I wish I had an article of clothing with their gorgeous pink color.</p>  <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0118.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-351" title="IMG_0118" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0118.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0119.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-352" title="IMG_0119" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px" height="463" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_0119.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_01201.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-353" title="IMG_0120" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_01201.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center">We weren't the only ones soaking up the sunshine.</p>  <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_01221.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-354" title="IMG_0122" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="413" alt="" src="http://ionlyweardresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/img_01221.jpg" width="550" border="0" /></a></p>  <p style="text-align: center">Happiness is the summer time.</p>  <p>For all you summer babies, from <strong>Emily Dickson</strong>:</p>  <p><em>A something in a summer's day,     <br />As sIow her flambeaux burn away,      <br />Which solemnizes me.</em></p>  <p><em>A something in a summer's noon, --     <br />An azure depth, a wordless tune,      <br />Transcending ecstasy.</em></p>  <p><em>And still within a summer's night     <br />A something so transporting bright,      <br />I clap my hands to see;</em></p>  <p><em>Then veil my too inspecting face,     <br />Lest such a subtle, shimmering grace      <br />Flutter too far for me.</em></p>  <p><em>The wizard-fingers never rest,     <br />The purple brook within the breast      <br />Still chafes its narrow bed;</em></p>  <p><em>Still rears the East her amber flag,     <br />Guides still the sun along the crag      <br />His caravan of red,</em></p>  <p><em>Like flowers that heard the tale of dews,     <br />But never deemed the dripping prize      <br />Awaited their low brows;</em></p>  <p><em>Or bees, that thought the summer's name     <br />Some rumor of delirium      <br />No summer could for them;</em></p>  <p><em>Or Arctic creature, dimly stirred     <br />By tropic hint, -- some travelled bird      <br />Imported to the wood;</em></p>  <p><em>Or wind's bright signal to the ear,     <br />Making that homely and severe,      <br />Contented, known, before</em></p>  <p><em>The heaven unexpected came,     <br />To lives that thought their worshipping      <br />A too presumptuous psalm.</em></p>