Chrisp Fall Day

Last Sunday was the picture-perfect Fall day in Chicago. I went for a long walk with my camera with the idea of taking pictures for an Ethnic Tour of Albany Park.

And that Blog is coming.

But as I was looking through the pictures I'd taken, I noticed I had several pictures that had nothing to do with ethnic anything - they just captured the season.


Take this picture, for example. It is of the north branch of the Chicago river on Wilson Street. Here you get the gold, the red, and the fading greens and browns of Fall, plus a deceptively gray sky. It was actually a very beautiful, sunny day.


































See? Beautiful, blue sky. This tree sits on the bank of the river. It is gorgeous, it is old, and it is naked.
















Here, right on the bank of the river on the Lawrence Avenue bridge, we have the water treatment plant.

The water treatment plant, see below, is a magnificent building from 1929. The plaque on the front of the building proudly proclaims its function - I just can't imagine that archetects are out there making buildings this beautiful for the purpose of sorting out solid waste.

Albany Park is actually full of buildings that are this ornate.


















Because I don't know the people who live in this house, I won't announce the address. It is typical for single-family homes in the neighborhood though. These folks have a dock and a boat.

This far north, the river isn't as stinky as it can be when it flows through the downtown area, but on those hot, humid days, the river does get kind of stenchy, and it attracts mosquitos. So really, who wants a big, beautiful house with a dock on the river?




















This is the view from the Wilson avenue bridge, complete with trees. Unfortunately, on my street, the many of the trees were cut down several years ago during the Asian Beetle invasion. Sure, they've planted all kinds of new trees, but they aren't as old as the ones in this picture, they aren't as large, and the leaves don't change colors like these.

In fact, they just fall off.

Next up, The Ethnic Tour of Albany Park.