Vacant lots, Englewood, Chicago

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Willis Tower Skydeck (West View)
🌇 Sunset: 7:31 PM - 7:40 PM CT (20x speed)
🌡️ 46°F | Clear

📍: 41.878900,-87.635900

A bumblebee (with a sizable pollen nugget tucked away) gathers more sustenance from a cluster of Virginia blue bell blossoms.

Guys!!!

Starve your lawn, save your trees. Those are the rules.

A moody, black and white photograph looking down at a set of railroad tracks that curve into the distance and disappear into dense fog. The image is uniquely framed by the heavily blurred, dark, diamond-shaped wire of a chain-link fence in the extreme foreground. To the left of the tracks are long, organized stacks of dark railroad ties, and to the right is a mix of trees, including evergreens and a few showing pale blossoms. A tilt-shift effect blurs the bottom and the distant misty background, keeping the central stretch of the tracks in sharp focus.

A couple more shots from the epic fog last week off Lake Michigan.

I saw a headline warning that insects and bugs are coming back earlier this year, and it actually made me happy. 🐝

Spring in Chicago area! 40s today, 70s expected tomorrow. Confusing, often bewildering, but the flowering trees/bushes bring joy 2 the heart re rebirth & spark hope 4 the future!

a big pretty green tree in chicago

this beautiful tree!!!! it’s so green and full of SPRING :’)

University of Chicago chapel framed by white trees from above, and a purple flowering tree behind a beige fence below

I knew it works be worth it to bring my camera today

Street View image of post office

ROBERT LEFLORE JR: 5001 W DIVISION ST, CHICAGO IL 60651-9998

My photo of the Patterson-McCormick Mansion, located at the NW corner of Burton & Astor in Chicago’s Gold Coast, with a blue sky and neighboring high-rises in the background. A woman walks in front of the four-story building. It is a Neoclassical design w/Roman brick & terra cotta trim created by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White in 1893. The structure was threatened with demolition in the 1970s, but it survived and is now subdivided into nine condos.

The Patterson-McCormick Mansion, located at the NW corner of Burton & Astor in Chicago’s Gold Coast, is a Neoclassical design w/Roman brick & terra cotta trim created by Stanford White of the firm McKim, Mead & White in 1893.

Blooming and budding trees under a cloudless blue sky at Central Park in Oak Brook, Illinois

Blooming and budding trees under a cloudless blue sky at Central Park in Oak Brook, Illinois

Rushes, reeds & trees along a creek under almost cloudless blue sky at Central Park in Oak Brook, Illinois

Looking up at a tree canopy under a cloudless blue sky at Central Park in Oak Brook, Illinois

From my noonday walk earlier today. Spring is springing, thanks to all the rain. The trees are blooming and budding. The sky—today anyway—was blueing.

Pink and yellow magnolia blossoms on the ends of slender branches under a blue and white sky.

This is the last magnolia of the season and my favorite. The tree was so slender and had a heavily damaged trunk but it was also very alive and tossing beautiful big blossoms into the sky.

Color photo of a midcentury single family home in tan brick with a complex roof. Three sections in general L shape: (1) main section on left, 1.5 stories, with the slightest gabled roof, feat. a brown and blue fascia, (2) middle section with recessed entrance, skillion roof starting below eave of left section; (3) garage, coming way up toward the street, roof from center jutting forward and continuing down. Garage door has cute painting of a yellow and black butterfly.

2616 W. Jarvis, ca. 1956, when simple roofs were déclassé

Pin oak catkins erupting this afternoon, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social

Goldfinch munching on a seed, Lincoln Park South Pond #bird #goldfinch #chicago #lincolnpark #naturephotography

I think he’s gone. Can’t find him. Was going to report him.

Beach day! 🥰

Still there.

Tekakwitha Woods Forest Preserve: Enjoy Peaceful Trails, Beautiful Views of the Fox River, and Excellent Birding

This beautiful spot was named in honor of Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th century Native American from the Mohawk tribe. You can learn more about her and the preserve at tinyurl.com/mvcy7auw

The Sear Tower and the Saint Charles Airline Bridge viewed from the boardwalk at Ping Tom Park.

Ping

Photo looking out over railroad tracks leading towards the tall buildings of the Chicago skyline under a bright blue sky.

Same shot different day

Photo of a lone tree starting to show leaves. Standing on a grassy patch of land next to Lake Michigan under a mostly clear blue sky.

TREE

A brick building, part of a church / parish / convent complex, offers a mix of beautiful stained glass windows whose vivid verdant hues contrast with a dark, foreboding overcast sky above.

really like how this pic from yesterday turned out. foreboding skies above a majestic #church in #chicago on my #digicam

#photography #art #architecture #urban #city #stainedglass #design #building #cathedral #storm #ethereal #aesthetic #digital #film #haze #historic

A garage door is painted with the Chicago city flag (blue and white stripes, with four six-pointed red stars) and cartoon characters saying "Hello" in various languages. Next to the garage, the gate of a driveway has three signs on it. One says "Hands Off Chicago." Another says: "ICE OUT! Fuera ICE!" And the third has a red "X" over a yellow crown.

Seen from a Brown Line window, a garage door with art by Shawnimals.

Cormorants in two trees along the Chicago River.

Cormorants in a tree along the Chicago River.

Cormorants in a tree along the Chicago River.

Haven’t seen cormorants here in large quantities since the city wiped out all the trees along the river. I think the construction is screwing with them.

blue phlox with sedges in the background https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/351521310

Woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata) on this morning's bike ride into work, @mortonarboretum.bsky.social East Woods

I don’t but I think I’ll order it now. Thanks!

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