Carol usually walks to and from the Metra stop at Main Street, which is about a half mile from the condo, but when it rains she calls me and I drove over to pick her up. 

        I was sitting in the car under the railway bridge waiting for her train one day last week when I actually looked at it.

        I photographed it yesterday on my way back from bicycling to the liquor store.  I was out of Laphroaig.

     

        There are more than a dozen such bridges in Evanston, and there must be hundreds in Chicago.

      

          They all look like this.  Or worse.

       

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books read January through June

        THE SHADOW LINE   Joseph Conrad

        THE 25th HOUR   David Benioff

        LORDS OF FINANCE   Liaquat Ahamed 

        THE BROKEN ROAD   A.E.W. Mason

        TITIAN:  The Last Days   Mark Hudson

        WOLF HALL:  Hilary Mantel

        THE FIRE ENGINE THAT DISAPPEARED  Sjowall/Wahloo

        THE LOST BOOKS OF THE ODYSSEY   Zachary Mason

        ROSEANNA  Sjowall/Wahloo

        A SHROPSHIRE LAD   A. E. Housman

        THE ANEID   Virgil   (Robert Fitzgerald translation)

        SHIBUMI   Trevanian

        THE TREE OF MAN   Patrick White

        THE LOCKED ROOM   Sjowall/Wahloo

        LOVE IN FIVE TEMPERAMENTS   J. Christopher Herold

        A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON   Robert Wilson

        THE GOOD SOLDIER   Ford Madox Ford

        THE GHOSTS OF BELFAST   Stuart Neville

        SPIES OF THE BALKANS   Alan Furst