Terry, Maynard, John and I followed the Lakefront path from Rogers Park, and made our way south through the city's various northside, lakeside neighborhoods.
It's a good way to rediscover the beauty and variety of the city we call home. From Belmont Harbor, to Oak Street Beach, to Olive Park, to the looming skyline, there are many wonderful facets of this jewel of a town to experience.
Arriving downtown, the cavernous skyscrapers take over the sight lines, towering over the pedestrians and cars that make there way through the concrete, steel and glass chasms. On a cloudy day like today, you certainly can see how they got their name.
Our final destination was Millennium Park, a relatively new addition to Chicago's list of attractions, with it's Frank Gehry designed band shell and the highly popular and reflective Cloud Gate sculpture.
Having achieved our goal for the day, we posed next to Millennium Monument, which includes the names of the park's "founders" etched in its base. Serendipitously, one of these luminaries has a surname very similar to Maynard's.
2 comments:
A monumental moment to stop and smell the roses! Might you all venture to do this again, perhaps in a different direction of town? Amazing, when we take the time to merely walk - we see so much once missed. And to be afoot as ‘a tourist in your own town’; seems you learn something new every time!
Hi Jeane. Yes, it's amazing what you can discover when we take the time to slow down and look :). Your suggestion of different paths thru the city is a good one, and we'll try to do that.
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