Chicago Streetscene: Fifty Shades of Fall at the Lurie Garden

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Relief for NATO Weekend, at the Lurie Garden

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 this one's a cheat - taken at the Widow Clarke house.

 . . . and this one's from somewhere along Archer avenue.  Now back to Lurie:

 Buckyballs.

more after the break.

 Fried egg flower  (a/k/a Paeonia lactiflora)

 Frazzled nerves flower (a/k/a Geum Triflorum)

Our thanks to Jyoti Srivastava for her help in naming some of the items you see here.  For a more comprehensive journey through Lurie Garden - with much better photos -  check out her website here.