Chicago's waterfront on Lake Michigan is open and accessible and one of the city's many attractive features. Here, one jogger passes another on a cold March morning near the Shedd Aquarium.
The Chicago River runs through the center of downtown Chicago. Through an amazing engineering feat back in the 19th century, the direction of the river was reversed, so it now flows away from Lake Michigan. Along the banks of the river stand many of the city's historical landmark buildings.
In this view from a hotel window, the early evening light turns Chicago's downtown skyline a silvery blue.
At the bottom of Chicago's "Magnificent Mile" lies Millennium Park. One of its distinguishing features is this amazing sculpture titled "Cloud Gate" but popularly know as "The Bean".
I was hurrying to meet the others at the Art Institute, but couldn't resist having a few minutes of fun with the Cloud Gate sculpture in Millennium Park.
BCE Place in Toronto, designed by Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect and engineer. The lights are there only for the Christmas season.
Author Marie Wilson has just quaffed a perfect chocolate martini in the Hazelton Hotel in the upscale Yorkville district of midtown Toronto. The hotel bar is stylish, spacious and dripping with celebrities.
If you're in Newfoundland in June, you will almost certainly be lucky enough to see one of the enormous icebergs that have "calved off" from glaciers far to the north and float down past Newfoundland.
The lighthouse at Cape Spear, like all of Newfoundland, is often enveloped in thick fog. .
Aaron Schwartz has been a member since 12 December 2007 and goes by aaronschwartz.
Currently in Toronto.
I am a copyright lawyer in Toronto. Before that, I was an actor, director and writer.
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