Orange river

With tangerine trees, and marmalade skies.
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," The Beatles, 1967.

...and an orange river. Not the Orange River of South Africa, or the Orange River of Illinois, because no stream exists. But there is a North Branch of the Chicago River in Skokie's Harm Woods, and shortly before sunset this afternoon it was orange.

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