Show us where you live?

[Dev]

I'm always interested in seeing where my online acquaintances live.  I'd like to ask you to post a picture of your hometown, something that shows its character.  Here's the trick, though: it has to be a picture you took, because we can't have any copyright infringement going on.  So... show us where you live?

 

To get us started, here's a picture of downtown Boise.  This is Capitol Boulevard as seen from the Boise Train Depot.  You can see our Capitol Building in the distance, and the foothills behind it - that's where the snobs live.  Off to the right is housing for BSU, and to the left you can see what passes for skyscrapers in this neck of the woods.

 

[Ravin]

Uploading photos here is complicated.

[Dev]

Links to images hosted elsewhere are fine, too, if something gets in the way of posting it here directly.

[MarcieMarie12]

 

Guess where I live!

 

 

[Dev]

MaryMary, that is an absolutely gorgeous picture.  I would love to live somewhere with that kind of obvious history out for all to see.

 

Marcie, I'm gonna guess you live somewhere in backwoods Florida?  

[Ravin]

Here's a picture taken from the "A" Mountain hiking trail in Tempe. That's my daughter and I in the foreground.

[Dev]

I don't know why, Ravin, but I'm always surprised by the amount of greenery in pictures of Arizona.  My desert ignorance is showing.

[Timber Wolf]

I would love to, but I don't think a phone pic would successfully download on this site, and the fisheye phone camera lense wouldn'd be able to handle such a task anyway.

 

Lots of love,

Timber Wolf?

[VickySGV]

San Gabriel Valley of CA is home.  35 miles North East of downtown Los Angeles.  The area is desert by rainfall definition. 

[DenimAndLace]

17 hours ago, Dev said:

it has to be a picture you took, because we can't have any copyright infringement going on.

 

So, if I found a picture on the Internet and it says who took it, is it legal to use it as long as the photographer is credited?  I'm talking officially ...legally ...not just permission from the mods ...is it LEGAL? Here and elsewhere.  I just don't understand copyright that we'll

[MaryEllen]

That looks like the Chateau Frontenac.   Beautiful building in a beautiful city. I've seen it many times. I loved going to Quebec City for a weekend holiday. The Chateau, Citadel, Plains of Abraham, the Old City. Also Montmorency Falls and the cathedral of Ste. Ann De Beaupre. Totally awesome.

 

MaryEllen

[Guest]

Here in Deltona, Florida, there's nothing worth a picture.  It's a bedroom community, almost all bland, cookie-cutter subdivision homes build in the 80s and earlier.

[Ravin]

17 minutes ago, Kenna Dixon said:

Here in Deltona, Florida, there's nothing worth a picture.  It's a bedroom community, almost all bland, cookie-cutter subdivision homes build in the 80s and earlier.

 

Surely there's green? Probably more than in my pic (which shows a good bit of the campus of ASU, and I'm pretty sure was taken in fall or spring when things are more pleasant for the plant life!)

[Jani]

My grandparents took me on my first trip to Quebec when I was probably 6 or so.  I remember taking in many beautiful sites, particularly the cathedral of Ste. Ann De Beaupre.  The name has always stuck with me as I found it to be so unique and fun to say.  

 

I'll try to take a photo tomorrow to post.

Jani

[Cyndee]

I do love the mountains of Southern California near Vicky's place. Not much interesting about where I live, just Western WA suburbs, it's very wooded area (100' + Douglas firs on our lot), and quite green. We have Eagles, Deer, Racoon, and Coyote, that show up about our neighborhood. Attached to this post is a lake about an hour's drive from our place, and it's near Mt Rainer. Typical sub alpine terrain. We have so much natural beauty here, we are blessed.

 

I took this picture on a hike a few years back....

 

C -

 

 

[Jani]

Close to the trees...in a small town.  Very rural yet I am within an hour of Boston, MA.

[MarcieMarie12]

On 11/29/2017 at 7:27 AM, Dev said:

Marcie, I'm gonna guess you live somewhere in backwoods Florida?  

 

Well they always talk about draining the swamp here. 

[Dev]

Jani, that looks incredibly peaceful.

[Jani]

Thank you, it is.  The elevation drops off a bit out front to the road but the view is similar.   Now that the leaves have all fallen I can see some neighbors homes and have a clear view of the lake.  

 

Jani

[Carolyn Marie]

Here are two pics of very different environments in my home in the Los Angeles area: the first very cosmopolitan, the Little Tokyo area of Downtown L.A; and the other closer to my actual home in the burbs, in an urban nature preserve/marshland habitat.  Amazing the wildlife one can find in the "urban jungle."

 

 

 

 

[Dev]

That bird looks kind of dangerous, Carolyn.  Are you sure you should have been that close?  

[Carolyn Marie]

Just now, Dev said:

That bird looks kind of dangerous, Carolyn.  Are you sure you should have been that close?  

 

On another occasion in the same marshland, I was walking by a tree when a Cooper's Hawk landed in it, with its lunch.  Now that is what I consider too close for comfort.  You ever see the talons on one of those guys?

 

Carolyn Marie

[Briana]

Very interesting and fun to see. 

 

Carolyn, I've been there many a time.  We probably have many family photos from that area in Little Tokyo.  And it's surprising how many little habitats like marsh pic you showed that are around the LA area. 

 

Ravin, I've hiked those trails many times.  I went to school there for some of my undergrad requirements. 

 

And Dev, where are all the potatoes?!?!?!  LOL

[Dev]

Har har har.

 

If I never see another potato in its natural habitat again it will be too soon.   

[Charlize]

This is a picture of our farm a few years ago.  There is new fencing and a new barn and almost no pines left now.  My father had planted 6000 pines but as they matured especially after hurricane Sandy we had so much damage that we started the harvest after establishing a sawmill.  I built the home and barns closer to the viewer and grew up in the old stone home in  the distance where my son and his family live now.