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| This
exhibit by the Chicago Botanic Garden was much more impressive than my
wimpy flash could capture. It's an elaborate model train set and a
series of cityscapes rendered entirely in plant materials. Shown here:
the water tower, library, & Lake Point Tower. |
Water
Tower again, with one of the bridges (Mich. Ave?), Wrigley bldg, and
Marina Towers made of tobacco leaves. |
Wrigley,
Tribune, a glimpse of the Hancock, Marina Towers, Amoco/Aon Bldg.
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Navy
Pier, the ferris wheel, and a peek at Buckingham Fountain |
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| Wrigley
Field - note acorn lights and leaf pennants |
Looks
like a slow outfield today |
Goat is
not rendered in plant materials. They cheated. |
A
Chicago bungalow. The man on the porch should probably put the beer
down and mow the lawn. |
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| Mansions
- Prairie Ave? I'm not sure the Fields and Armours would stand
for a freight train in their front yards. |
Birds
made of scrap metal. I'm noticing that I've been at the show for a good
hour and have not photographed any actual flowers yet. |
A
friendly, but rusty, tortoise. And look! Flowers! |
Okay,
finally, some flowers. I didn't catch the name of the purple ones but
liked them a lot. |
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| The
lighthouse outside Monroe Harbor. |
Skyline
from near the end of Navy Pier |
A
husband who doesn't want me to take his picture. |
On the
way home, we ran into an anti-war protest, but we arrived too late to
catch anything but the CPD, which may have outnumbered the protestors.
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| More
CPD in full riot gear. |
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And
then the armada... |
...which
goes on and on. They apparently anticipated six busloads of arrestees.
The march itself was entirely controlled and channelized, but I heard
that it got more interesting down on Federal Plaza. |