Tessellated Skyline: The trellis that holds the sound system at Chicago’s Pritzker Pavilion is actually quite a complex structure
Liftoff: Greyhounds have explosive acceleration. Even Bang. When they start they gulp huge amounts of air into their oversize lungs to oxygenate their blood, which they have more of than other dogs, at a higher pressure and which is very high in erythrocytes, to supply their overabundant fast-twitch muscles. They are indeed sprinting machines.
Of course, a small cut will spray blood all over your house….
Irish Bar, Greyhound: I met this shy girl outside a pub near the Chicago Ave. station. She’s newly fostered, soon to find her forever home. A new world awaits, sweetie!
(Odd what information is out there to find; this dog, if I have her IDed right from the GO site, shares a couple of ancestors with our hound. And yes, greyhound owners are strange)
Yep, She’s a Goner!: The remaining half of Chicago’s Wells Street Bridge about to be removed. One of the engineers on the project kindly confirmed my suspicions that they did indeed plan to (carefully) cut the span loose and (gently) drop it onto the barge below. The shipping containers surprised me, but a quick Google and I lernt that shipping containers are extremely well built.
The city of Chicago is replacing the Wells Street bascule bridge, one half at a time. These pictures are of the first half of the project. The other old leaf goes late in April.
I worked for a short time on a large construction project; a bridge, in fact. This image captures the crowded, somewhat chaotic and dangerous conditions that are all in a day’s work on a large construction site.
The stub of the old leaf which was torched off onto a barge is on the left, partially painted to match the new leaf on the right. The new section was then bolted onto the remnant of the old.
