Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Nature walk

I chose to walk from my apartment on Diversey and Oakpark, which is the northwest side of Chicago, to Reese Park. Reese Park is on Fullerton and Narraganset. I walk down Diversy Avenue and its an area where there is heavy traffic. I cut through the brickyard mall and arrive at reese park. Reese Park is a very green area that a lot of trees. It is alot more relaxing to be there than to be across the street where I just saw two teenagers smoking a joint while waiting at the bus stop. But as I got deeper into the park, I saw children playing at the playground while their parents watched them from the bench. Then I started walking towards the parking lot and thats where I saw a bunch of older men geeting wasted off of some sort of liquor bottle. When I'm in the downtown area, I don't see much of this going on because all I see is high rises, but then again, downtown is more populated with a different segment of people.

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  1. How true! I worry sometimes that the people who live downtown have develop completely different attitudes towards greenspace, compared to those who live in more open or green neighborhoods.

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