It’s the Jewish New Year, 5776. So busy busy busy. The High Holidays go on for almost a month. I’ve reached back into some of my pictures from Chicago that didn’t make it into other posts. In no particular order.
Something of a tie in to the water towers of Mendocino, here’s a lovely old one on a brick building that probably won’t last much longer, bigger shinier buildings going up all around it.
I use the photo editing program Picmonkey, and the photo on the front page looks very similar to this one. This one is on Navy Pier.
40 cars on the Ferris wheel, the things you learn when you study your own photos. Btw, this one is coming down and a much larger one, like the London Eye is going to replace it. But it still won’t be as big as the original Wheel in the 1893 Columbia World Fair.
You can’t go to Chicago and not take a picture (or ten) of the bean. Once again, I’m enjoying how I caught the people here, most are hiding under the bean because it was raining.
Before the rain it was just fun to see the reflection.
Of course we took a Chicago River Architectural cruise.
I thoroughly enjoyed the old bridges. This actually should be video, the center of the bridge was being lowered right as we came to it. Notice the big concrete counter balance to the right. The guide himself had never seen this happen.
A different bridge with another type of counter balance. These wonderful old bridges still stand because the traffic over them has diminished, less cargo coming into this part of the city. I hope they keep them maintained as long as possible.
Cuz I just love this wonderful old metal work. I even see a quilt pattern, or a few to be honest.
Not all of the river is urban, this could be out in the country somewhere.
Here is a new flower to me, very big brash and pink, in a planter on Michigan Ave. 
The cone flower (Echinacea) is quite common, I still enjoy photographing flowers no matter how common they may be.