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| Fog on the Inner Drive (JWB, 2011) |
Up here 31 floors
above Diversey Harbor we haven’t seen the ground for three days. Damp air, the cold lake, and warming
breezes from the west have wrapped us in a fog that just won’t let go.
Yesterday I went
for a walkabout, heading west on Diversey to Seminary, then north to Belmont,
east to Broadway, north on Broadway to Hawthorne, then back to the Inner Drive
and home. Saw some great places on
the way . . . the Brewster on Diversey, Dwight Perkins’s Agassiz Elementary
School, the Nettelhorst School on Broadway, and the stately manses on
Hawthorne.
As I walked west
the fog lifted, and the sun began to shine. Less than a mile from the lake, it was a completely
different day. Back on Hawthorne, two blocks from the lake, after a couple of hours of walking and taking pictures
along the way, it was exactly the same day that I had left.
Which is a good
lesson, I suppose. When you’re
tired of the way things are going, get out and walk around for a bit. It’s nuts to let things drive you crazy
when sanity is a short walk away.
The photo above is
one of the last pictures I took on yesterday’s walk as I neared home on the
lakefront trail between the Diversey driving range and the tunnel under Lake
Shore Drive.
Like a windless
snowstorm, the fog softens the world, dampens the noise, and changes the
physical reality of our lives. And
because it is temporary, it makes us appreciate the return of the sun that much
more.
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1 comment:
Cool photo, but I like it best when the sun is out! This past weekend was so gorgeous and I am ready for the weather to stay warm!
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