Great prayer. Wow! Where's that? Is that Chicago?
Is this the view from your condo?
Don't tell me you wake up this every morning.
I rated.

I'd love to see *your* comment on the prayer. Great image, too.

Amen, Zuma.....beautiful prayer/poem and beautiful picture.

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good morning !
this is nice

Zuma, What a beautiful prayer. The photo was very beautiful. Thank you

all: The prayer is by Carl Sandburg. I am am always delighted when a contemporary poet applies their poetry to prayer. I find these at my random prayer wheel.

I should have added: Where is this city? It was the most stunning city that I could find at Photobucket, to go with Carl Sandburg's prayer. If someone has an answer, please let us know, so I can find a houseboat and live right out there on that water with that view!

Celestial: that is a wonderful prayer to the "Great Spirit". I've been reading it a few times. Thanks for sharing it with us here.

Yee hah! It's Boston back bay. I get too excited to look at the legends.

No, I won't be moving there. It gets too COLD!!!! And I'll never recover from the Filene's basement episode.

You just made this beautiful Sunday just a little bit better!

happy sunday zuma!

Amen. Rated.

Thanks, Michael, Naneh and 'Dippity!

Very smart use of page, Queen of Zuma. Simple, elegant and effective.

Thanks Beth. A labor of love.

Jesus said Heaven was on Earth - he must have seen this city.
Lovely lovely
I doubt it is in the USA

cities are never usually pretty to me, but that one looks gorgeous- and the poem made my nose run

Really! Why can't we get rid of the hideous 60's through 90's architecture and have at least part of cities looking like this? Maybe with a nice park where you can see views like this one.

Zumalicious poem and pic. As you correctly point out that's Bahston's Back Bay. That's the Riveh Chahles : more specifically what you're looking at is the Charles River Boat Basin (which is basically a big lake and great for sailboats: daughter learned sailing there). The picture has been taken from the East Cambridge side of the river, from pretty close to MIT, I'd guess. Hahvad is on the same side, off to the right. Boston U. is on the bank that the picture is of, but out of the frame to the right as well.

The domed structure on the left of the treeline is the Hatch Shell, where the Boston Pops have their outdoor concerts, including their famed 4th of July one. There's a busy road between the trees and Back Bay propah, which they close off during the concerts. The river bank has miles of walkways for joggers, skaters, bicyclists, walkers anyway, so during summer the whole place is a giant park, teeming with people.

Umm, a word about the architecture. Most of the buildings you see are from the 60's through the 90's . The gorgeous glass tower on the left is I.M. Pei's John Hancock Towah built in the early 70's. The tall one to the extreme right is the Pru (from the 60's) and is in fact quite ugly, and is generally left out of the frame :-).

But, you should come visit. It really is quite beautiful in the spring (Comm Ave. in Back Bay is bursting with magnolia blossoms! Now you'd never know that were it not for OS, wouldya?), the picture is taken in midsummer. You can catch a game at the Fenway and watch the Sawx. You could have clam chowdah. You could even get "scrod" (as the Boston cabbie, obviously a Hahvad man, said: "Man, I've never heard anyone use the past pluperfect for that word before ;-).)

WOOF

Caveat: Thanks for the most excellent education on that beautiful place! At first, I thought that someone photoshopped some beautiful pictures together.

What a magnificent thing to know that such a place exists. One Summer, I hope to go there and to view this scene.