Twenty Minutes of Weather

June Theme Day: Feet

Happy Theme Day. June's theme, selected by vote of the City Daily Photo participants, is Feet. I found 12,652 feet in this picture. How? I picked several of the more recognizable buildings and looked up how tall they are.


Here are the buildings I selected, their names and heights.


A – Lake Point Tower (645 feet)
B – 340 On The Park (672 feet)
C – Water Tower Place (859 feet)
D – John Hancock Building (1,506 feet)
E – Palmolive Building (aka Playboy Building) (565 feet)
F – Amoco Building (aka Aon Building) (1,136 feet)
G – 900 North Michigan (aka Bloomingdale's Building) (871 feet)
H – Park Tower (844 feet)
I – Trump Tower (1,362 feet)
J – Chase Tower (850 feet)
K – Chicago Board of Trade (605 feet)
L – AT&T Corporate Center (1,007 feet)
M – Sears Tower (1,730 feet)


Click here to view thumbnails for all participants

Dark and Stormy Night

Lots of rain and wind in Chicago last night.
And, of course, fog.
The fog was lighter in the evening than
during the day when the fog made all the other buildings disappear.

Going ... Going ... Going ... Gone

Carl Sandburg wrote

"The fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over the harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on."

Yesterday, however,

The fog came in
like a stampede.
It pounced on the lakefront
smothered the buildings
and then moved on.