More Chicago Christmas

Merry Chi-mas!

Christmas Willie

Randolph & Wacker

Christmas Marvel On Madison Just West Of Michigan

DC too...

Monroe & Wells, Michigan at Madison looking North

N. LaSalle & W. Kinzie

NW corner

Washington & Wacker

Corner Of Madison & Wells

Chicago Christmas Decorations Begin In Earnest...

Back to work.

Short days make for great night shot. Full Moon is cool, too.

Franklin & Randolph

Randolph And Wells - Theater District

A Walk Along The Chicago River...

...and Clark the LaSalle. Been trying to catch Icarus & Daedelus in flight for several years now, finally got the right shot.

Dan

If it rains tomorrow, no cats allowed; it must rain bats & rats.

Pre-Hallween rainstorm.

Art Deco Doors

Canal & Madison NE corner.

Washington & Canal & Chicago River

Chicago Lyric Opera (Originally Civic Opera) and "Butterflies & Buffalo" exhibit at North Riverside Plaza. Olgilvie Train Station overpass at Washington & Canal, Syd Jerome clothing store, LaSalle & Madison.

For The Greater Glory Of Iron And Smoke...

For The Greater Glory Of Iron And Smoke...



A bright moon floats over the lamps of the city,
Waning at two-thirds.

In silence I listen to the sounds of Summer in Chicago,
A cigar-puffing spectre on the wall in shadow.

Hip-hop plays to vacant tables on a deck washed in the soft glow of orange party lights,
A black hole of festive potential.

Angry voices fighting at One AM down the street,
A midnight-chasing chopper rumbles by mounted by a white tee shirt and shades with a mass of back-flowing hair,
Taxis hiss their hunting tires down empty streets searching for lonely vampire stragglers.

I sip coffee and puff prayers to heaven,
Dreaming of freedom,
To me embodied in whirling pedals glinting in sunshine,
Half a day away.

AquarianM

By: Daniel A. Stafford
(C) 06/27/2013