Air Angles

Flying over the city reveals quite a few things.

If there was more time, or more frequent flights over the city, think about the additional details you could see!

The palette of colors were bright in some sections of town.

Reds, yellow, orange, green, brown, and isn't that a lavender or purple next to the orange and yellow trees?  I thought so.

John Nolen Drive is a major artery that carries cars from the Beltline highway into the heart of the city along the shore of Lake Monona.

But it's only from the air, where the graceful arc traces across the water and is joined by a railroad track.

Monona Bay is to the right of the tracks.  Lake Wingra a little further west is mostly surrounded by the University's Arboretum and the Henry Vilas Zoo.

Between Monona Bay and Wingra Park Avenue runs into Fish Hatchery Road, another main road which stretches all the way south past Oregon (the Wisconsin city, not the state).

From one point above the center of the city - you can see the the paths carved by feet, horses, trains, cars, and buses brought workers, legislators, protesters, and more into the heart of the capital city.

Farther out from the city's center, there are neighborhoods with a mix of single and multi-family housing.

Condominiums are home to young couples and families as well as those downsizing lives and lifestyles into places where cutting grass and shoveling snow are off the to-do list.

We can drive by color, intersect highways and byways, walk in homes every day - without seeing the canvas on which we live.