Random scenes from Chicago: View from my hotel win… Random scenes from Chicago: Elevator Random scenes from Chicago: Stairs morning sun (shooting almost directly into it) toward the end of November Christmas cactus where the marsh once was weather report at the subtle edge of a colorful sunset cold variation to brighten a gray day it's beginning to look like Christmas... .. all creatures, great and small... creme brulee in flight i in flight iii ancient vine blowing in the wind diner decor pests in the snow return flight at the arrival gate orchid in the sun late bloomer November our neighbor across the road to the north November woods Minnesota farms Halloween sometimes we cast a long shadow crabapples bravery colors of autumn ii colors of autumn mid-October tabletop in a time of drought self portrait with bicycle cropscape across the fields another view of the hibiscus September sunset yellows reds the mouths of the sun