Emilia and I again visited German Village for the Holiday Lights. Although the temperature was in the teens (Fahrenheit), it was still a pleasant evening for us, and a good excuse to get out of the house for awhile. We picked out our Christmas tree the day before and decorated it before going to the Village. These lights were on the pathway in Schiller Park, where we got engaged in 2007. The temperature that evening was -19 below zero (Fahrenheit). Here is a <a href=”https://eleventwentysix.com/index.php?showimage=192″ target=”new”>photo</a> taken in 2006 during the Holiday Lights.
I found myself agape, admiring a skyscraper – the prow of the Flatiron Building, to be particular, ploughing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the late-afternoon light. – H.G. Wells (1906)