I had the wonderful experience of living and working in downtown Chicago for 14 years. For 12 of those years, I had a studio in the historic Fine Arts Building. Chicago is a very walkable city. As such, scenes as these taken on my daily walks were first documented with a camera and later painted in the studio. It is a city rich in architecture, museums and culture but especially its gardens. Though the Chicago Botanic Garden is located outside the city, the theme “Urbs in Horto” in evidence everywhere.