Monday Morning: on Missing Belle

Basking in the winter sun - behind the glass - Hannah. Me.

Everyone has some place to be - except we two.

It looks the best place to be we say!

Can't help but thinking: how Belle would like to be the one!

Lin

"the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square"

A Chicago man widely known as "the Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square" was struck and killed by a van Tuesday afternoon on the Far North Side.Joseph Zeman, 77, whose love of and attentiveness toward pigeons was detailed in a 2004 Tribune article, was hit by a 1992 Chevrolet van at Devon Avenue and McCormick Road about 2:15 p.m., police said.Zeman of the 2100 block of West Arthur Avenue was pronounced dead at 3:21 p.m. in St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
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2004 story: Pigeon Man of Lincoln Square
The van was "exiting a parking lot, made a right turn, did not see him and struck him," said Sgt. Antonio Baio of the Chicago police major accident investigation unit.He said a laminated copy of the Tribune article was found with Zeman, and a witness recognized him.Zeman used to sit for hours on a fire hydrant near Lawrence and Western Avenues with dozens of pigeons perched on his head, shoulders and legs."Soon as I take a seat, they want to be loved and kissed like a mama's baby," Zeman was quoted in the Tribune article. "Like I'm their father, and they're my child."