That Toddlin’ Town

Chicago is Mid-America’s capital city and the world’s largest metropolis on a fresh water shore.  Lake Michigan is the big blue expanse lapping at the city’s foundations and it, conjoined with Lake Huron, has a surface area so immense that from this perspective it ranks as the largest fresh-water body on earth. My experiences in any major city tend to send me into public parks and gardens and seeking out man-made architectural accomplishments, which from my perspective are just as much a part of our nature as it is for beavers to build dams. In Chicago such pursuits are easy to come by and many venues have excited my senses from the dynamics of the magnificent lakeshore itself, through to the inland Chicago Botanic Garden.