03.26.04
Lake Michigan (Shedd Aquarium, Field Museum, and Adler Planetarium's) Campus View of Chicago Skyline
A cold front moves into a half-way decent day--bringing fog on the day we had prepaid admission to to the the Hancock Tower.
(Pic has been manipulated using Jasc "sunburst" & "clarify" to compensate for a not great Canon Powershot A20 2.1 pixel camera/not great weather--steel grey day--grey bldgs. Meh, weather.)
Chicago holds it's own with any great American city. I can't believe though that I've lived here almost twenty years--longest by far that I've resided in any one part of North America. That's what having kids will do--and being a single parent--keeps you rooted to the Midwest (though if ones drives swiftly, one can get from my home to Lake Michigan in 35 minutes). It's cool though, as we have the city. The Great Windy (as in a long-winded politician) City of Chicago, known simply to most everyone as the city.
Pic features a bunch of famous bldgs. including the John Hancock and the Standard Oil, but my fave is the one in the lower left corner--the diamond-shaped roof one. Don't know what it's called. I think it may have been the Aon Bldg. before 9/11/01--but they may have changed things since. It's very cool in person--all of it shimmering in the sunlight (on those few days a year we have sunlight.) :/
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