gone fishin'

Jackson Park Harbor, NW corner of Marquette and Lake Shore Drive, 10-13-2006.

ruins lost

Debris and remains of past Chicago demolitions used as a seawall behind the South Shore Nature Sanctuary, 10-13-2006

Lumber and cement

View of Ozinga cement yard on South Union, between Ford and Lumber, 10-18-2006.
MAP

South on Lumber near the Dan Ryan overpass, 10-18-2006.

chartreuse Green Party

NE corner of Dorchester and 50th Street in Kenwood, 11-08-2006.
Wilderness Mag
"The Hyde Park colony has survived Chicago's nastiest weather, a significant feat since the bird originates in the temperate, dry lowlands of South America. This is the harshest climate the birds survive anywhere in the world, according to Pruett-Jones. They do exist further north, in Amsterdam and Paris, for example, and during the 1980s they bred in Montreal, but only in the Chicago area do they currently withstand windstorms and ice baths, rain, snow, hail, and temperatures far below zero."

monastery

Monk Parakeet nests in Nichols Park, 11-09-2006.

"and the broken umbrellas like dead birds, and the steam comes out of the grills like the whole goddam town's about to blow..."

57th Street Metra viaduct in Hyde Park, 11-11-2006.

the window sweats

NE corner of 53rd Street and Harper, 12-1-2006

locked up

Sangamon viaduct (no longer a pass-thru) north of 16th Street in Pilsen, 12-14-2006.

Curtis Locke