Post pics of a place that is dear to your heart

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Assateague Island...any season of the year:

[GirlinContempt]

1. ok

[GoddessOfGuinness]

2. And those are pics of???

I like the building with the cafe...

[GirlinContempt]

41. My area of town

in Winnipeg

[Lautremont]

54. Quite a shock to see pictures of the Village right off the bat!

Or at all for that matter. A pleasant shock though, thanks!

[GirlinContempt]

55. Makes me miss summer patio lounging

and live music

[Left Is Write]

3. A house on a nice street in North River Hills, Burnsville, MN

(Sorry about the picture quality; it's not a scan, it's a digital pic of a photo taken many years ago)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. It reminds me of a house I lived in for awhile...

But that was in Beltsville, MD.

[Road Scholar]

4. Is that near Chincoteague island?

Just offshore Topsail Island NC

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Just west of Chincoteague, continuing north into MD

Part of the Chincoteague Wildlife Refuge is on Assateague Island.

[BrotherBuzz]

7. My teenage years sanctuary

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Beautiful!

Where is it?

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Practically under the Golden Gate Bridge...

Believe it, or not. Here's another angle that my friend carved and printed (the bridge is in the background). This little beach was Army property when I was a kid and we had to sneak under the fence to get in. Once in, we were left alone to our own devices, unmolested, to explore and camp in the tunnels and abandoned batteries. Today, it is part of GGNRA, and for safety purposes all the cool structures have been torn down or buried, and swarms of people visit, spoiling it for the locals like me. Times have been better.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. My dad loved places like that...

He was always trying to get special permission for his group of military history buffs to visit virtually abandoned military sructures from 1898 through WWII. Sometimes he succeeded, and they'd occasionally even get a guided tour.

[BrotherBuzz]

26. Some of the structures were even older that that

Some dated from 1872 and 1876. It was a real shame to see them buried and bulldozed! Wonderful brickwork - gone!

Within one mile of that beach, there are 1950's era Nike missile bases, Second World War 'Sixteen inch' gun batteries, nineteenth century Rodman gun emplacements, and a civil war era brick fort. I appreciate and condone what your dad is trying to do. I really do.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

29. Unfortunately, he passed away 13 years ago...

But the organization is still around, if you're interested. There are chapters all over the country. It's called CAMP...Council on America's Military Past. Here's their website: http://www.campjamp.org/

As a kid, my dad took us to just about every Civil War coastal fort that still existed, and a good number of battlefields and non-coastal defense fortifications, too. I don't regret it for a second.

It must have been sickening to lose the brickwork, especially. I remembe being amazed by the beauty of the early structures...

[BrotherBuzz]

40. The brickwork is gone, but I have some of those bricks

I've collected bricks all my life (something my grandpa instilled in me). My big score came years later when I was doing work for GGNRA inside of Fort Point (the civil war era fort). I had to drive my truck through the ten foot wide sally port in order to deliver and install some casework for the gift shop. I noticed a pile of old loose bricks and was informed they had to tear them out to install a handicap restroom. They wanted to get rid of the bricks, so I offered to haul them away. A ranger helped load them! Hoot, they're in the backyard, too!


This is the entrance (notice the empty gun cradle - sister to the one below)


Your father might have found this photo disturbing - a Rodman gun lost to a WWII scrap metal drive




Even though obsolete, the guns sat unmolested at the fort for many years. Now gone forever. :shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. How long ago was it torn down?

My dad was out there about a week before the Loma Prieta earthquake. I wonder if he might have had a chance to see it.

Those photos are fascinating!

[BrotherBuzz]

56. Oh, Fort Point is still there, and now open to the public

It's a gem and a sister design (three tier) to Forts Sumter. It was closed to the public and boarded up while under the Army's jurisdiction, but it is now part of GGNRA and became a National Historic Site on October 16th, 1970. It would certainly have been on your fathers "to see" list.


The Golden Gate bridge was built around Fort Point (Look at the little arch on the right)



Fort Point sans bridge


The lost and buried structures I spoke of are around Kirby Cove/Gravelly Beach to the left and just off of both photos. The actual batteries were buried, while outbuildings (mess, latrine, headquarters, housing, etc) were razed.

Gravelly Beach/2/ 3"/P/1942-1943/guns from Yates, buried
AMTB Gravelly Bch. /2/90 mm/F/1943-1946/partially buried

[begin_within]

51. That picture reminds me of...

Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park

[BrotherBuzz]

61. Cool, but that lighting is sort of surreal and almost haunting

High noon appeals more to me, especially on a cold November night. You know what I mean, Vern?

http://www.itine-rari.it/immagini/Julia%20Pfeiffer%20Burns%20State%20Park,%20Big%20Sur,%20California.JPG

[begin_within]

63. I think the picture I posted shows an incoming storm

[KitchenWitch]

9. ...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Living in a lighthouse would be amazing...

Thanks for the beautiful pic!

[KitchenWitch]

17. Sure thing!

That is the Split Rock Lighthouse on the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota.

My very favorite lighthouse of all time...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. I'll have to put it on my list of places to visit!

:D

[speedoo]

12. Bequia, West Indies

Beautiful island, beautiful people.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Lovely...

Is that your painting?

[speedoo]

33. I cannot tell a lie...

It is very lovely, but I can only take credit for finding it with google. If you'd like to know who did it, I'm sure I can find it again.:hi:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. Not necessary...

It must have been done by someone who loved the place as much as you do. :)

[speedoo]

49. Definitely

It's such a lovely watercolor and it cerainly captures some of the spirit of the island.:-)

[seemunkee]

13. Carderock MD

I spent a lot of time here in HS and college. Help me forget my dad was dieing

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. We often go over there to hike along the towpath

and visit Great Falls. It's beautiful country...
Are you in any of those pics?

[seemunkee]

19. I'm in the middle one

I started climbing there when I was 15. In high school when my dad was dieing it was my refuge.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

20. Everyone needs a refuge...

I'm glad you found yours. :hug:

[Road Scholar]

21. Here's my other place.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. What a view!

Where is that?

[Road Scholar]

27. Actually, it's from our place in Fancy Gap Virginia looking

south on the Northern Piedmont of NC. It's about a dozen or so counties. Can you make pilot Mountain out? It's my hidaway on the Blue Ridge Parkway.I got millions of pics from there. The view changes almost hourly because of the ever changing clouds and sunshine.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. Which one is Pilot? Right of center?

I've never been on the Parkway south of VA. I love the Blue Ridge, though...

[Road Scholar]

32. Yes, just right of center. Here, I've zoomed it up a bit.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. That almost looks like a tornado to the left of the summit...

Amazing place! Thanks for the photos!

[Road Scholar]

36. The clouds like to play tricks on you there.

A good place to enjoy the earth and to think.

[Haole Girl]

23. Kauai

[GoddessOfGuinness]

24. Say...Is that the "Jurassic Park" waterfall?

It's gorgeous!

[Haole Girl]

25. At least one of the Jurassic Park movies was shot on Kauai...

...my husband kept saying he expected dinosaurs around each turn in the road! :-)

[Arugula Latte]

155. I was just in Kauai over Thanksgiving week.

*sigh*

That's definitely my favorite Hawaiian Island (well, I've only also been to Maui and Oahu).

I don't think I've never seen more spectacular scenery than the Napali coast. Alaska, the Grand Canyon, etc., are incredible, but there's something about Kauai that is absolutely breathtaking.

[BarenakedLady]

28. Warwick, Rhode Island

There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home.

*click click click*

[GoddessOfGuinness]

31. I love New England...

Schoodic Point, Maine is another one of my favorite places...

[ulysses]

35. part of my soul

still resides in northern New Mexico.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. It's easy to see why...

I want to see petroglyphs!

[ulysses]

38. I just miss an open sky.

15 years in Georgia, and I still look up at the sound of thunder thinking I'm going to see the storm in the distance. :(

I'm really a prairie boy at heart.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

42. Georgia has some beautiful skies, too...

:)

[ulysses]

57. what you can see through the

kudzu. :P

[NewWaveChick1981]

39. Atlanta, GA

City of my birth and and my favorite city on earth! :loveya:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

46. That's a great pic!

I haven't visited Atlanta properly since I was a little girl...the 6 hours or so that I spent in the airport doesn't count.
Looks like an exciting city!

[tinfoil tiaras]

43. Weaver D's in Athens

and



the grit in Athens

[GoddessOfGuinness]

47. Athens, GA?

I love local hangouts. :D

[tinfoil tiaras]

48. mhm...i love that town with a passion

:) :hi:

[enigmatic]

89. I played at The Grit many moons ago

When I was living and playing in Athens. And Allen's in Normaltown on Wednesday nights was fantastic..

[Burma Jones]

50. Assateague? Bzzzzzzzzzz... SLAP... Ocean City here I come....

The Mosquitoes there are legendary.....


My Favorite Places:

Man Made:




Natural:

- Costa Rica

[GoddessOfGuinness]

53. Skin So Soft keeps them at bay

It's amazing to watch a swarm of mosquitos two feet away from you...

I recognize Falling Water; but where's the waterfall pic? It's lovely!

[Burma Jones]

71. La Paz Waterfall Gardens Nature Park, Costa Rica

[GoddessOfGuinness]

105. Do they have quetzals?

I want to see a quetzal...

[Arugula Latte]

156. I hate to brag, but I saw a tree with about six quetzals in Costa Rica.

I grumbled about getting up at the crack of dawn "to see a bunch of birds," but then, when I saw their amazing plummage, I was sooo glad we'd made the effort.

[begin_within]

52. Bear Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park

My grandparents owned a cabin in Estes Park, and we would go there in the summer and go all around Rocky Mountain National Park.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

59. Is it swamped with tourists all year?

It's breathtaking...

[begin_within]

62. I think it is very busy in the summer, but the rest of the year much less crowded - although

it can be very cold there in any season except summer! So probably September would be OK, after Labor Day but before it starts getting really cold. Bear Lake is probably the easiest to get to, you can drive right to the parking lot and walk around the lake. It is the start of a trail to Nymph Lake, Emerald Lake and Dream Lake, so the farther up the trail you go the more sparse the crowds will be. And there are many other lakes and ponds there.

[Skittles]

58. Martham, England

good memories of my grandparents there:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

60. What a charming place! I had to look up its history...

Martham has always been a large village. The Saxons settled here about AD600 and gave the village its name, "the ham of the martens", the home of the polecats. These cream-coloured ferret-like animals were found wild in Broadland marshes until about a century ago. About AD800 Danish colonists settled densely in the Fleggs, giving their names to many villages which end in "by" (Hemsby, Filby, Ormesby, Oby etc.). Martham it would appear was large enough to absorb these newcomers and retain its Saxon name.
At the time of the Norman conquest in AD1066, the manor at Martham belonged to the bishop of Thetford, Herbert de Losinga. When he moved to Norwich, built the cathedral there and founded the priory, he gave his land at Martham to the new monastery. During the middle ages, Martham provided the monks in Norwich with wheat for their bread, barley for their beer and peat dug from the marshes for their fuel.
Martham was a large thriving village about the year AD1300 with a population of about 1000. Even after the Black Death which was extremely severe in this area, Martham was wealthy enough to build the large parish church, which has been dubbed the "Cathedral of the Fleggs"
When the monasteries were dissolved, the manor was leased to a series of landlords, many of whom lived away from the village. Martham has never had a single family that dominated village life. It was a community of farmers, fishermen, craftsmen and tradesmen. Nineteenth century directories tell of grocers, butchers, tailors, drapers, shoemakers, basket makers, wheelwrights, joiners, blacksmiths, millers, brick makers, bricklayers, thatchers, glaziers, wherrymen and watchmakers. Indeed a village large enough to be self sufficient and self supporting.
Brick making was carried on at several places in the parish, one being near Martham ferry. This is why most bricks in the older houses are of the same appearance, texture and colour, the so called "Norfolk Red".
A fair was always held on the village green on the last Tuesday and Wednesday of July and was probably a general market where traders and peddlers sold goods not usually available in the village.
The population of Martham in 1890 was 1097 inhabitants, today that number has increased to over 3000.



It looks lovely :hi:

[Skittles]

64. time has just stalled there

except for the giant wind generators that appeared a few years ago, it looks remarkably unchanged from when I was there in the 60's. :D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

66. So they're wind-powered?

How progressive! :applause:

[Skittles]

68. OMG, GOG, *HUGE* generators

friggin' MASSIVE !!! And in the nearby North Sea, same thing. Yes INDEED! Check them out here: ?v=0

I was christened in that church, built in the 1300's. :D

[GoddessOfGuinness]

69. Those are amazing!

They dwarf the ones I've passed on the PA Turnpike...

One of these days I want to visit England...

[huskerlaw]

65. A couple places...

In no particular order.


Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada


Lincoln, Nebraska ;)




Los Angeles/Malibu, California

[GoddessOfGuinness]

67. Wow! LA looks so clear in that pic!

The smog dominates the skyline in most of the pics I've seen.

[huskerlaw]

75. It really depends on

what time of year the pic is taken. The smog thing definitely goes in cycles. Starting in late May, we get a thing the locals call "June Gloom"--which is actually the marine layer. It looks like fog and of course the smog attaches to it. The marine layer leaves in late June, but it seems like the smog gets trapped basically all summer--because it's hot and there's very, very little breeze.

Then, in October, we get the Santa Anas, which blow all that smog away. And now that it's "cold" and breezy, the sky is actually clear. I'm guessing that pic was taken in the winter. ;)

And that's probably WAY more than you ever cared to know about LA smog! :hi:

[taterguy]

70. Devils Corkscrew in the Grand Canyon

Only went once but it was a mind blowing experience. An 18 mile solo hike in one day. I'll never do anything like that again but I'm really glad I did it once

[GoddessOfGuinness]

87. I've never seen the Grand Canyon...

One of these days, if I can get my damn feet back into hiking shape...

[PrimeRibGuy]

90. I did that about six years ago...

Not an easy hike, but something I will never forget.

[Rhythm]

72. My favorite place as a kid...

This thing sits at the entrance to Freedom Park, Charlotte NC...
i don't know if they let kids climb on it like they did back then (30+ yrs ago), but man, what memories.

[Rhythm]

73. aw hell... pretty much anyplace in Charlotte is dear to my heart...

i lived there for almost 30 years...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

88. Cool!

It looks like the fencing's designed to discourage climbers. Ever been to the B&O Railroad Museum, in Baltimore?
http://www.borail.org/

[ElsewheresDaughter]

74. where i live of course......warning lots of pics

my chruch...yup that's my pew across the way




my back yard during a movie shoot




without the movie crew



my garden



a 5 minute walk from my front door



night swimming



Katterskill Falls....walking distance from home



me sitting at the top of Kaaterskill Falls 1975

[GoddessOfGuinness]

92. Those are fabulous!

Thank you for sharing them with us!

[LaraMN]

76. Palisade Head (in MN)

When I was still little and an only child, my Mom used to take me there every summer to pick blueberries. We got ice cream pails full, ate them with cream, and my Dad made blueberry wine from them. I stepped in more than one hill of ants up there, but it was beautiful and the view was amazing. Every year I mean to make a trip up the shore and go there, but I never manage to.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

93. Seeing so many wonderful places right here

in this country, reminds me that you could spend a lifetime exploring the US, and still not see it all...

Thanks for your breathtaking pics!

[Lowell]

77. A timeless place than never changes

An Amish mill near my Mom's place in Ohio
;

[GoddessOfGuinness]

95. Still in use?

When I was in high school, our German class took a field trip to Amish country in PA. It was wonderful to tour the mill and see things done the same today as they were 200 years ago. :)

[MorningGlow]

78. They live in my heart although I live far away

Pirates Alley, New Orleans



Glastonbury, England

[GoddessOfGuinness]

97. Pirates Alley...

Has it come back from Katrina yet?

Thanks for sharing those special places! :HI:

[QMPMom]

79. St. Meinrad Archabbey in Southern Indiana

This has been a very special place in my life for many years. It is so peaceful and I love going there and just sitting on a bench and soaking in the tranquility. It's not far from my parent's house and we always go there when we go back home for a visit. It's also where my DH and I got officially engaged.

The Archabbey Church.


Inside the Archabbey Church. We were sitting on the seats on the right side of the photo when DH gave me my engagement ring. The Monks were singing a beautiful Gregorian Chant at the time.We wanted to get married there but couldn't get permission.


The Archabbey Church at night.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

98. It's beautiful!

I can see why you love it so much! :)

[ironflange]

80. A couple of spots

Kootenay Park/Radium Hot Springs, BC



<-- a day of logging road fun



Oregon Coast



<-- Newport

[GoddessOfGuinness]

100. Is that Kootenay, with the incredible road-cut?

I have a friend in BC who keeps asking me to visit every time we see each other...

[Rambis]

81. McDermotts pub

County Clare Ireland
Great Craic!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

101. Now yer talkin'!

You buying? :beer:

[Phillycat]

82. Home...

Lifts my spirits whenever I've been away and I see that skyline for the first time:


Philadelphia, seen from the Art Museum steps (the Rocky steps).

[GoddessOfGuinness]

102. I've been wanting to take my son there.

It's only a couple of hours away; and the ship my grandfather served on is open for tours...

the USS Olympia

[momophile]

83. Here's a couple for me

Boulder, of course

and the Kingdom of Tonga

[GoddessOfGuinness]

103. Love the Tongan sunset....

My mom always used to talk about Boulder, and how beautiful it was. Thanks for sharing your heart! :D

[Arugula Latte]

158. I like Boulder a lot.

If I haaaad to live somewhere landlocked ;) I would choose Boulder, probably (If I could afford it!).

[barb162]

84. oh, that's beautiful!!!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

104. I'm glad you like!

:toast:

[KamaAina]

85. Dearer to my heart than Bush's or Brownie's, alas

someone already covered the French Quarter, so we'll head Uptown, where yours truly once lived right on the Carrollton Ave. portion of the line:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

107. It'll come back, hon...

:hug:

[blogslut]

86. On the horizon of the panhandle of Texas

...there isn't much to see. But god bless the holes:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

108. Wow!

Where's the nearest town?

[blogslut]

153. bout ten miles

Unlike the Grand Canyon, you don't have to travel a hundred miles for the payoff/big drop. Land opens up from almost the moment you enter Palo Duro Canyon State Park.

http://www.palodurocanyon.com/

[skygazer]

91. Vermont - also known as "home"

my hometown




and my favorite beach here in California

[GoddessOfGuinness]

110. Vermont...

sigh :-)

[UrbScotty]

94. Near to my heart

[GoddessOfGuinness]

111. Hopefully, it is also dear to your heart...

:rofl:

[UrbScotty]

142. Very much so (nt)

[enigmatic]

96. Dorothy, Alberta

W/ one of the few buildings left:

I love this place..

http://www.ghosttowns.com/canada/alberta/dorothy.htm

[u4ic]

109. So that's why I'd never heard of Dorothy before...

what a cool site, enigmatic! Frank gives me the chills. Seeing all the rock still scattered...the interpretive centre said that the mountains in the area are still quite unstable, and they are only monitoring a few.:scared:

Oh, and btw...the store is called Buffalo Valley Meats. I checked it last time I was in the area.

How have you been doing? Are you one of those crazy cyclists out in -25 weather? There were a few in this neighbourhood. :crazy:

[enigmatic]

122. hey u4ic!

:hug:

I love that website; I'm trying to make it my mission to visit everyone of those ghost towns, and Frank is next on my list...

[u4ic]

124. It is so eerie there

I remember reading about it as a kid, and finding it strangely fascinating. It's quite something standing at the base of that mountain, looking up and imaging the side of it swooping down. There are huge boulders - weighing a ton or more - a few kilometres away. They didn't move any, just cleared them off the railroad tracks and eventually, for the highway.

There were also a number of coal mining accidents in the area. There is a graveyard in a couple of towns down that holds the bodies of something like 50 or 60 miners killed in an accident not far off the Frank slide date.

I love old, abandoned buildings. Every time I pass by one, I feel the need to go in and have a look round. :-)

I like your mission! Neat! :thumbsup:

[fudge stripe cookays]

137. Oh. My. god. The mountain came down....

I'd like to see Frank too.

I'm SO looking forward to December in Alberta! Not! :scared:

Hey u4ic. reprehensor and I are fixing up the house to try to sell in the spring. We'll see if it's possible now that the market has cooled a bit. My cousin has a line on a job already. Maybe.

[u4ic]

145. Hey FSC!

So the move is on? :D Are you looking at Calgary or Edmonton? At least you'll have the chinooks if it's the former.

It's a good thing you waited this winter out...already got down to -30. A few times. :scared:

[fudge stripe cookays]

150. That's what the family is telling us!

A little chilly, but I'll have to get used to it! I'd prefer Calgary, as I know the city better (and there are the aformentioned chinooks!)

Hopefully we can get this place sold in the spring or summer. I've also got another genealogy trip scheduled for the spring, to Pennsylvania and Maryland. I've got to get my traveling out of the way before we go since I'll be stuck up there for awhile until I get all my paperwork approved! At least we can go to BC. I've got cousins there too!

Hopefully I'll get to meet you soon! The last trip was so whirlwind I barely had time to breathe!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

112. Ghost towns fascinate me...

We had a little "ghost neighborhood" here for awhile. It was a temp housing subdivision for WWII vets. For 40 years after the homes had been demolished, the street lights would still come on in the neighborhood, and garden plots still bloomed. I once met a man who had lived their briefly. He told me the government had issued them cardboard refrigerators.

They dug the whole area up about 15 years ago, and created a lake.

[Ediacara]

99. Baby Island

An eroding lump of land off of Rocky Pt. on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound. At a high tide, it's an island, but on low tides, it's easily walkable.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

113. Did you ever just hang out all day until the tide went back down?

Thanks for the pic...Looks like a cool place!

[Ediacara]

116. No, I've watched too many people accidentally get trapped

and try to wade back through very soft sand surprisingly fast currents.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

125. That could be scary!

:toast:

[xmas74]

106. Place I hope to see my ex in soon:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

114. Really?

What did he do? :hug:

[xmas74]

141. Skipped state,

hasn't paid child support in 18 months and isn't paying for insurance.

[UrbScotty]

143. Looks like the perfect home for him then (nt)

[xmas74]

144. That's what I think.

It'll probably take the state another year to figure that out.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

147. Too bad he'll get free meals.

:hug:

[xmas74]

149. And free health care.

He'd be fine if he lost a couple of pounds.

[YankeyMCC]

115. White Mnts in NH

?v=0

[GoddessOfGuinness]

126. For me, as well...Here are some from last summer...

[YankeyMCC]

136. Nice pix

I call The White Mountains my 'cathedral' even though I'm atheist. :)

They are where I teach my son many of the most important things I want to teach him about life and the world. They are where I go when I need to be 'recharged' and where I feel the happiest.

[Kali]

117. Here are two of many.

Northern Mexico/Chihuahua

El Valle


El Indio


Jaripeo de Hacienda de San Diego (one of Luiz Terrazas' many holdings, pre-revoluccion)


Chaos of the Jaripeo - truck slipped out of gear, wish I could include the audio


Temporary flood - more entertainment than delay



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Home

[Xipe Totec]

118. Ajua! Raza!

:bounce:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

127. Great pics!

Thanks for sharing your beautiful home! :toast:

[Xipe Totec]

119. Right now? This one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/

[GoddessOfGuinness]

129. You're the best, Xipe Totec!

:hug::beer::hug:
:loveya::beer::loveya:

[av8rdave]

120. St Lucia

The Pitons from a windjammer ship



The Pitons from the air approaching St Lucia



Vieux Fort International airport

[GoddessOfGuinness]

130. Fantastic!

Is it one of the less touristy islands?

[av8rdave]

135. It is less touristy, although I understand it's getting "discovered"

There are some all-inclusive resorts on the island, but other than those it has retained its local flavor. Rodney Bay, where the layover hotel is, is pretty much a sleepy little harbor town, where most of the businesses are owned by and serve locals. It's definitely one of the most beautiful islands in the Carribean.

I'll be back there this afternoon - one of the few remaining "perks" of the job.

[Mrs. Venation]

121. Okay. This is Our Neighborhood This Past February

Our Back Yard






And, finally...

Mama's Back Porch

[GoddessOfGuinness]

131. Those are beautiful photos!

I love when the snow covers everything around here. Thanks for sharing them! :hug:

Is your mom close by?

[Mrs. Venation]

139. Mom and Dad

are in east Tennessee, in the same house where I grew up. There's just something about a porch that tugs at me.

[Mrs. Venation]

140. BTW

The people in the porch photo are, left to right, my cousin Harry, my brothers Woody and Randy, and Harry's wife Maggie.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

146. I know what you mean about a porch...

A house doesn't seem like a home without one, for me...

[fishwax]

123. Here are two I turn and return to often (in my mind at least)

This is Vernazza, Italy. If I won the lottery, I'd be on a plane within a week.



This is Yellowstone National Park. If I found out I had two weeks to live, I'd be on my way here. (That may sound morbid; I don't mean it to. I just can't think of many places I feel more at home or at peace :) )

[GoddessOfGuinness]

132. Yellowstone's on my list of must-see places...

I'm always amazed by pics of European seaside villages, and the way they're all squeezed in the small space of a cliff, as if the houses were simply sardines...
It looks charming! :toast: I hope you win that lottery!

[Blue_In_AK]

128. That's very pretty, Goddess...

Here's a view I really like, the Matanuska Glacier from the Glenn Highway north of Anchorage.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

133. Stunning...

When it's my time to go, I'm buying a one-way ticket to AK. :toast:

[Blue_In_AK]

134. Let us know, and we'll give you a great big Alaskan welcome.

We truly do have some sights to see here.

[fudge stripe cookays]

138. Austin, my hometown

Moved here when I was 4, left when I was 28. It's changed a lot, and not in a good way, but it's still home.




The Capitol


Congress Ave bridge (no bats yet; still too early)


Driskill Hotel, old landmark


Town Lake Hike and Bike Trail

[GoddessOfGuinness]

148. If I had to live in Texas,

Austin is the city I'd choose to make my home.

I have an old friend who conducts an orchestra there. :-)

[fudge stripe cookays]

151. That's the problem though.

Everybody cool wants to move to Austin, when the rest of the state has lots of cool things in it as well. It's just been disguised by all the complete assholes the last few years, that people think Austin is the only good thing in this state.

NOT SO, sez Fudge. :hi: GOG

[Maestro]

152. I've walked right down that path before

Austin is a beautiful city! I was just there over Thanksgiving visiting my wife's family.

[fudge stripe cookays]

154. Me too!

When I was still healthy enough to walk the whole thing it was invigorating to do that walk then just stand there under the Mo-Pac bridge feeling that BREEZE on the river! One of my favorite things about Austin.

Oh, and the yummy pastries at Mozart's. And the fried spinach at Z'Tejas. And shopping at Book People. And Waterloo. And Breed and Company...And...oh never mind. Now I'm getting homesick! :cry:

[bertha katzenengel]

157. GOD I love Assateague. What is that crab dragging? Here's mine:

Bolsa Chica Wetlands, Huntington Beach, CA