Urban Nature Pictures 2/6

[urbpan]

Honey locust pods.

Pretty bleak out there yesterday. I started walking Charlie along the Muddy, and just got disappointed by how cold and colorless and ugly it looked. That's probably a reflection of something inside me rather than an accurate depiction of the park. So I left the Riverway and went behind the apartment buildings that border it, but are separated by the trolley tracks. Still pretty colorless, but at least there were some things I hadn't taken pictures of before. As nasty as it was out, I'm thankful to be spared the two feet of snow that other places got.

Comments

[wirrrn.livejournal.com]

Neat! I like the spiky Honey Locust!

[rudbekia.livejournal.com]

It really was colder out yesterday than I had anticipated. I went for a walk in the Arboretum where there is *some* color at least.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's a good idea, I havent been there in a long while.

[gigglingwizard.livejournal.com]

What are all the poles and wires and stuff for along the tracks? Our trains here don't have that.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

This is an overhead power source trolley. We have 4 subway lines (all of which go overground for some part of their service area) and this one, the "green line" is the oldest and has an overhead third rail. The other lines have a regular along the tracks third rail.