Pictures of Where You Live

[Michael]

This thread is for sharing pictures of where you live, not necessarily your house! Your town, your neighborhood, your region, your state whatever.

Here's a couple of shots of my local neighborhood... ;)

http://thegazz.com/gblogs/beerstoyou/files/2008/11/toronto.jpg

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1357332-Toronto_At_Night-Toronto.jpg

http://www.iho-ohi.org/wp-content/toronto.jpg

[Michael]

And one of our infamous "Red Rockets" ;)

Btw, I can pickup the 504 Car about 100 yards from my place.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/TorontoTram1.jpg

[The Drunk Girl]

Neat idea!

I'll post some more later. Some of the photos I chose were too large.

[Evangeline]

This is very near where I live, right up the road.


http://centralcaliforniacycling.com/images/WildcatCanyon.jpg

[Evangeline]

I live toward the top right side of the pic, just past where the reservoir ends, so let's hope that dam holds!! Although I am on a hill, the water would probably all just rush right by.....

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/18236712.jpg

[Lily]

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Suse1234/FrozenWinter1.jpg

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b379/Suse1234/LaurelOak.jpg

While people may think Florida is all beaches and palm trees, it isn't. This is some of the rare upland Sandhill pine ecosystem in Florida, and there is still some where I live. I think it's gorgeous land.

[Americano]

My avatar is looking out my home office window.

[Americano]

No rainbow but visibility limited only by the horizon.

[The Drunk Guy]

http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1357332-Toronto_At_Night-Toronto.jpg


Your apartment is really high up. :D

I'll get some one here as soon as I can figure out how to shrink the file size.

[Americano]

Your apartment is really high up. :D

I'll get some one here as soon as I can figure out how to shrink the file size.

Lots of free stuff on the net.

[KSigMason]

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0523091937-2.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0524091415.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/n1389771633_30118855_5744.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/n1389771633_30118857_6397.jpg

I am visiting a mining town next weekend for some Mason ceremony and I will have more pictures.

[Michael]

Awesome photos from everyone! More more more! :)

Neat idea!

I'll post some more later. Some of the photos I chose were too large.

Is that the view from your own balcony? If so, that's VERY nice! :thumbsup:

[The Drunk Girl]

Have to leave some for TDG...

[The Drunk Girl]

Awesome photos from everyone! More more more! :)



Is that the view from your own balcony? If so, that's VERY nice! :thumbsup:

Unfortunately it's not. That's a view from The Big South Fork area.

[Michael]

My avatar is looking out my home office window.

Yes, your view is a sweet one! :)

Here's the view from my home office window... (bloody cloudy day!) - same view as from my balcony - looking southwest.

[Michael]

As for the photos so far, I think Evangeline is 'winning'. :)

(individual opinions may vary of course!)

[KSigMason]

I went up to Silver City yesterday for the Annual Homecoming of the Silver City Lodge #13. Getting there is long trip (about 1-hour and 45-minutes) from Boise. The roads are tore up from winter and you can't take a car in there unless you don't like it.

Here are some pictures from my phone, but it died before I could get more:

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0711091756a.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0711091757a.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0711091757c.jpg

The Lodge building actually sits on top of the creek.

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l70/IDARNG_Loki/0711091812.jpg

[Michael]

The Lodge building actually sits on top of the creek.

Now why would it be placed there unless it began life as a sawmill using the water to drive a wheel?

[Americano]

Now why would it be placed there unless it began life as a sawmill using the water to drive a wheel?

Many meeting halls of that boom town era were constructed in such a manner so restroom facilities exited directly into the creek. No one can say the US didn't start wreaking ecological damage at the first opportunity!

Another bit of trivia about US gold/silver mining towns of that era was the number of saloon/whorehouses generally outnumbering all other buildings. Part of our Christian heritage.

[Michael]

Many meeting halls of that boom town era were constructed in such a manner so restroom facilities exited directly into the creek. No one can say the US didn't start wreaking ecological damage at the first opportunity!

Btw, the proper name for that system is a garderobe.

I never thought of that, but I suppose that would explain it.

Another bit of trivia about US gold/silver mining towns of that era was the number of saloon/whorehouses generally outnumbering all other buildings. Part of our Christian heritage.
America's "Christian Heritage" appears to be something that was invented in the early 1950s and retroactively pretended to originate with the founding fathers.

But if you look at the data (in "God we trust" on the money and "one nation under God" in the pledge) both were inventions of the 1950s.

[Americano]

Btw, the proper name for that system is a garderobe.

I never thought of that, but I suppose that would explain it.


America's "Christian Heritage" appears to be something that was invented in the early 1950s and retroactively pretended to originate with the founding fathers.

But if you look at the data (in "God we trust" on the money and "one nation under God" in the pledge) both were inventions of the 1950s.

I was being facetious about the Christian heritage. In the mining boom towns of the 1800s I'd imagine illiteracy rates probably well exceeded the 89% US illiteracy rate of that era with bibles/churches being way down the line in importance when compared to saloons and whore houses.

Lots of Christian revisionists out there have been indoctrinated to believe a majority of the US founding fathers were Christians, not deistists.

[Michael]

I was being facetious about the Christian heritage. In the mining boom towns of the 1800s I'd imagine illiteracy rates probably well exceeded the 89% US illiteracy rate of that era with bibles/churches being way down the line in importance when compared to saloons and whore houses.

To be fair, adult literacy rates in the early 19th century took a steep nosedive just about everywhere that had a semi-literate population to begin with. This also corresponds with a radical reduction of average height levels and average nutrition levels throughout western Europe and North America.

It is to be noted that it has taken just about 175 years for average adult height in these places to return to what it was in the 18th century, prior to industrialization (thus, the present 'rise' in the height of adults over the last century isn't an increase at all, but restoring lost ground).

The advent of our industrial economy was quite brutal on the population (which was expanding exponentially at that time). :shrug:

Lots of Christian revisionists out there have been indoctrinated to believe a majority of the US founding fathers were Christians, not deistists.
Yes, this is certainly 'historical revisionism' and it is a popular/common one in the US.

[KSigMason]

Now why would it be placed there unless it began life as a sawmill using the water to drive a wheel?
I'm not sure I'll have to ask.

[Michael]

I'm not sure I'll have to ask.

We're betting on the "indoor plumbing" aspect mentioned by Americano! :lol:

[Americano]

It started with the blue bucket when our temps went into the 90s and my wife felt 'her' deer could use some easy water. They slurped that up overnight, she added the 5-gallon bucket and now both are dry every morning. I've already told her we're not installing a self-filling stock tank.

[Michael]

Wow! That's awesome having a freakin' herd of deer on your lawn! :)

Kinda makes me hungry for venison just by looking at them! :D

[Americano]

Wow! That's awesome having a freakin' herd of deer on your lawn! :)

Kinda makes me hungry for venison just by looking at them! :D

18 lying in the shade on the lawn is the current high count of yard deer.

My wife has named several, so fresh venison is not an option. Divorces are not a fun experience and invite financial ruin.

[The Drunk Guy]

Took a while, but here's a nice collection...

[The Drunk Guy]

Took a while, but here's a nice collection...
More from Madison County...

[The Drunk Guy]

More from Madison County...
And a couple more from Madison...

[The Drunk Guy]

And a couple more from Madison...
And these are from the Big South Fork (http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/www.nps.gov/biso), a national park where I grew up.

[Michael]

Took a while, but here's a nice collection...

More from Madison County...

And a couple more from Madison...

And these are from the Big South Fork (http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/www.nps.gov/biso), a national park where I grew up.

Wow... nice pictures. :)

Kentucky I presume? Funny how every one of those pictures look like they could have come from any of dozens of places in North America. Seems like Kentucky is fairly generic terrain...

[The Drunk Guy]

Wow... nice pictures. :)

Kentucky I presume? Funny how every one of those pictures look like they could have come from any of dozens of places in North America. Seems like Kentucky is fairly generic terrain...
I like it because it hosts almost everything you look for in a North American landscape. Here in Madison County alone, you travel through mountains, rolling hills, broad rivers, and beautifully green fields that stretch for miles. I love all those things, so I feel happy to be here. :D

[Americano]

I like it because it hosts almost everything you look for in a North American landscape. Here in Madison County alone, you travel through mountains, rolling hills, broad rivers, and beautifully green fields that stretch for miles. I love all those things, so I feel happy to be here. :D

My NA landscape doesn't have humidity that soaks me as I walk outside.