My office, being in the middle of an industrial corridor, offers very little : a distant church bell tower (on the other side of the river) sticking up past a single story warehouse... out the back door window is a view of a beautiful older style Chicago public school building (about a half a block away) which is blocked by wires: cable tv, old telephone, new optical fibre, 110 and 220 services, three phase 220...

My house looks at a typical city street scene with blocks of 25x125foot lots of various house styles. Summer is good with trees as every fourth house lot on average has one... A lot of Norway Maples (climate demands), the Elms are all but gone (Dutch elm disease about 20 yrs ago) an occasional Willow or Oak and a number of Douglas Fir and Evergreen... the wildlife is very active here, Grey Squirrels, Robins, Woodpeckers, Sparrows, Norway Rats (it's a Scandanavian neighborhood), Lots of loud BlackBirds (huge ones), Pigeons, Yellow Jackets, Monarch Butterflies (getting rarer), a pack of wild roaming dogs that clearly someone feeds (every city should have one), fire flies, crickets, and mosquitoes... and then, of course, the people!

A Paradise as well!