Pictures of your locale

[Stephen Morgan]

[Nordic]

Had to work in a nasty old part of downtown LA for a few days (and nights) and took some shots with my blackberry.





This is the Los Angeles "River". Long ago they cemented the whole thing over. Now it's just a chute. This guy lives down there. He looked like a caveman, and an extremely happy one, not a worry in the world.



More of the river. Yes, we're driving down the river. In a big truck. Last time I was here it was a raging torrent 10 feet deep.



The 6th street bridge, and the moon:



And something a lot less smelly than any of the above, our local farmer's market (one of many):

[82_28]

Not that I do not "dare" dare someone to do so. But I cannot imagine another place on Earth matching the beauty of the PNW on a nice day.

But I dare someone to provide a photo of such a metropolis as Seattle. See the flat top of Mount St. Helens in the distance? All those warehouses south of downtown was once swampland. It is an amazing land that never ceases to amaze, from the distance and from very close.



Where I both live and work are quite visible in that photo.

[gnosticheresy_2]

[chump]

It would be a blue sky here today if it wasn't for all the contrails.

[Seamus OBlimey]

Burnsall Avenue

it's a long story..

[chump]

Riverside Cemetary in North Denver




No contrails!

[Gnomad]

that is from my window, last winter


this from a walk by the seaside last years autumn some way aways, round the same time of year as now

[Laodicean]

The Adirondacks.

[JackRiddler]

[JackRiddler]

Everyone knows that. It's where you have most of your LA car chases.

[chump]

Lake Dillon yesterday

[Nordic]

Ouch. I so miss Colorado. It's actually painful.

[82_28]

Amanda Knox flying in today. Fully corroborated with television footage. Snapped from my cellphone.



And what she could have potentially seen had it been clear today (which is the photo I put up above, but was scrubbed):



I miss Colorado in some facets too, yet not, Nordic. I don't know what it is. I have great love for my birthplace and where I spent my first 24 years. I just don't think I could live there again. I need to be near the sea and mountains at the same time. It is UNBELIEVABLE the amount of Denver transplants who reside in Seattle. Daily, well, almost daily, do I meet someone new here, sometimes multiple people who have moved to Seattle from Denver just because they wanted to. My lady is from Denver who I did not know there. My best friend up here as of now, is from Denver, who I did not know there. My old boss was from Denver, who I did not know there. Our neighbors who we watch Broncos games with, who I did not know in Denver and so on. My dad wants to retire here soon. My lady's sister just moved here last week from Denver. It just goes on and on and it's quite weird. I am trying to come up with a Grand Unified Theory as to why this is. My best bet is just similar sized cities, presence of mountains and nature, but Seattle's killer feature is the water and being sea level, yet lack of sun, which the water and year long green may in fact make up for for us landlocked souls who grew up there.

Some Denver people who migrate here can't hack the incessant gray though through some time spent here and move back. When I hear from them, they still yearn to come back to the PNW.

I know that I moved here sight unseen. I was seeing a girl who went to Evergreen State College in the 90's and I came up to visit and before my plane even landed I said to myself, "I am moving here."

[Avalon]

I'm south of Laodicean. Add a few more meadows and fields, and otherwise pretty much like those photos of the 'Dacks. Box with all the CDs of photos has gone AWOL, so I don't have anything local to hand right now.