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All in Flowers
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The 3-acre Washington Square Park sits just south of the Newberry Library. The American Land Development Company donated the land to the City of Chicago in 1842 for a public park. It hoped to make the area more attractive for high-end residential development. While its intentions were good, the Company probably never envisioned that the park would be a center for boisterous vocal debate, attracting what today might be described as left-wingers and Occupy Wall Street types. The resulting racket probably was not the first preference of local residents.
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It was an unusually cold day today, with the driving winds whipping the willow tree branches about and chilling the air and my hands. Not a good day for outdoor macro photography. Nor did I find it a particularly good day for photographs providing overviews of the Japanese or English gardens. The light was just too cold and harsh.