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Title: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 23, 2007, 09:12:30 AM

My house in winter (which usually lasts October-May.... 8 months!!! shocked)



Sunset from the deck.



Near Boulder, Colorado



In Rocky Mountain National Park.



Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: charby on July 23, 2007, 09:18:49 AM
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Werewolf on July 23, 2007, 09:49:15 AM
in the winter it is cold and very wet a lot of the time.

In the summer though:

It is often Like This:
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: cosine on July 23, 2007, 10:01:01 AM
Brown.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Sindawe on July 23, 2007, 10:01:51 AM
The 2nd to last pic of mountainclmbr's post is what I see everyday from a different angle and while driving into work.  Hoping to be working in the little cluster of buildings on the far left by the end of the summer.

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 23, 2007, 10:12:43 AM
Sindawe,

Do you mean the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) buildings on the right side of the photo, which would be on your left if you are coming in to Boulder from Longmont or Lyons?
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: K Frame on July 23, 2007, 10:18:21 AM
God I hate you...

I want nothing more than to be able to retire to the South West some day.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Sindawe on July 23, 2007, 10:22:02 AM
mountainclmbr

Correct, NCAR.  RIGHT side of the picture (freaking lysdexia). grin
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 23, 2007, 10:29:48 AM
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God I hate you...

I want nothing more than to be able to retire to the South West some day.

Mike,

During the week I often have to travel to Los Angeles for work. I get to pay this mortgage, but live in a hotel room. I must have done something really bad in a previous life.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: K Frame on July 23, 2007, 10:31:19 AM
Double bad if you have to haul your ass to LA.

I think the ONLY place on earth I want to visit less than L.A. is a slum in Calcutta, India.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Iain on July 23, 2007, 10:49:38 AM


Well, that's actually a few miles away, but quite a lot of Worcestershire looks a bit like that at the moment.



They usually race horses in that lake.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: 280plus on July 23, 2007, 10:50:21 AM
Well the swans look happy...  laugh
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 23, 2007, 11:02:40 AM
A summer photo from the back deck looking west. The Continental Divide follows the mountain ridge line. The mountains are between 12,000 ft and just barely under 14,000 ft. The elevation at my house is about 8,600 ft.

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: The Viking on July 23, 2007, 11:20:31 AM
Iain: Think of the opportunities for new sports! Dolphinracing! grin  cheesy
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: grislyatoms on July 23, 2007, 12:02:17 PM
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Ned Hamford on July 23, 2007, 02:22:24 PM
This thread should go a long way in dispelling the myth that gun owners are creepy hermits who live far away from the rest of civilization and want the gobment off their propertay  cheesy
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: BakerMikeRomeo on July 23, 2007, 03:02:57 PM
Quote from: Iain on July 23, 2007, 09:49:38 AM
They usually race horses in that lake.

Winner: awesome quote of the day.

~BakerMike
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Bob F. on July 23, 2007, 04:44:11 PM
I guess I'm gonna have to make myself notes at to which site used whic kind of pic. Computer illiterate!http://s150.photobucket.com/albums/s110/BobF_photo/?action=view&current=FriendsofCoal07001.jpg

try this'un!
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Bob F. on July 23, 2007, 04:47:23 PM
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Mabs2 on July 24, 2007, 08:25:22 AM
From the window directly to my starboard.

You want anything more than that it'll cost you extra.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: K Frame on July 24, 2007, 08:26:30 AM
Looks like you live in a fairly bucolic small town and in a house that was probably built in the early 1900s.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: K Frame on July 24, 2007, 08:44:52 AM
This is a few years old, but is the most recent picture I have of my place. It was during an unusually heavy snow storm a few years ago.

My house is the middle one of the row of three.

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Stickjockey on July 24, 2007, 09:13:21 AM

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2007, 09:29:54 AM
I'm jealous.  You guys have mountains and rivers and trees and rocks and stuff.

We have ... flat.  Dead flat.  As far as the eye can see.  In every direction.  Miles and miles of miles and miles.  The Llano Estacado is the largest nearly level expanse of land in the U.S..  It's a giant 37,500 square mile pool talble.

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: K Frame on July 24, 2007, 09:31:30 AM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2007, 08:29:54 AM
I'm jealous.  You guys have mountains and rivers and trees and rocks and stuff.

We have ... flat.  Dead flat.  As far as the eye can see.  In every direction.  Miles and miles of miles and miles.  The Llano Estacado is the largest nearly level expanse of land in the U.S..  It's a giant 37,500 square mile pool talble.



To paraphrase the great Sam Kinnison...

GET YOUR CRAP TOGETHER! WE'LL SEND YOU A UHAUL AND TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE MOUNTAINS ARE!
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Paddy on July 24, 2007, 09:35:16 AM
It looks dry





But, just a few miles away (about a 30 minute drive) is this:
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2007, 09:39:21 AM
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To paraphrase the great Sam Kinnison...

GET YOUR CRAP TOGETHER! WE'LL SEND YOU A UHAUL AND TAKE YOU TO WHERE THE MOUNTAINS ARE!


Ahhh, the classics!

 grin

"See this?  You know what this is?  It's sand.  Do you know what it's going to be in a thousand years...? SAND!!  NOTHING GROWS HERE!! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE!!  AGH.. AAAGGGGGG!!!"

Brad
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: charby on July 24, 2007, 10:00:33 AM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2007, 08:29:54 AM
I'm jealous.  You guys have mountains and rivers and trees and rocks and stuff.



What?!! you don't like the corn?

Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: mountainclmbr on July 24, 2007, 03:05:12 PM
Stickjocky,

Do you live in Portland? That looks like Mt. Hood in the background. I have seen the view from the other perspective, Portland from the top of Mt. Hood.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: DJJ on July 24, 2007, 03:12:35 PM
Quote from: Brad Johnson on July 24, 2007, 08:29:54 AM
I'm jealous.  You guys have mountains and rivers and trees and rocks and stuff.

We have ... flat.  Dead flat.  As far as the eye can see.  In every direction.  Miles and miles of miles and miles.  The Llano Estacado is the largest nearly level expanse of land in the U.S..  It's a giant 37,500 square mile pool talble.

Yeah, but you've got the country's premier wind-load research center. They have a building on a turntable! On a turntable!
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Mabs2 on July 24, 2007, 03:19:21 PM
Quote from: Mike Irwin on July 24, 2007, 07:26:30 AM
Looks like you live in a fairly bucolic small town and in a house that was probably built in the early 1900s.
Very keen observation. Cheesy
I'll probably go for a walk tomorrow or the next day.  I could take a few pix of Main St.  There are a few really old buildings there.  Nothing terribly interesting though.  There is a nice memorial called No Man's Land I like to hang out at though.
Ahoskie has been around since the mid or late 1800s, and from what I can tell, so has Main St.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: RocketMan on July 24, 2007, 03:22:59 PM
Thanks for the pics, Stickjockey.  River City.  Bridgetown.  Stumptown.  Portland, my old home town.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Stickjockey on July 24, 2007, 04:34:01 PM
Rocketman, don't you live around here somewhere still? Oregon, I mean.

Mountainclmbr, yes it is Portland. The first pic was taken just south of the- well, heck; that bridge's name escapes me right now, but it's basically one pridge north of where OMSI keeps the U.S.S. Blueback submarine, right along the waterfront. They're both pics I found on the web.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: RocketMan on July 24, 2007, 09:32:20 PM
Quote from: Stickjockey on July 24, 2007, 03:34:01 PM
Rocketman, don't you live around here somewhere still? Oregon, I mean.

Two hours south in Lebanon.  Seldom get up that way anymore, and when I do it's just for a short time, usually passing through the airport.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Jamisjockey on July 25, 2007, 03:15:15 AM


Mine's waterfront.


Seriously, I live in the suburbs of DC.  Absoulutely uninteresting. 

I can't seem to find any of the haus, but that's okay.  Contemporary colonial with a front porch. 
Here's a pic of the neighborhood in Feb. from my front porch.


Decent houses on small lots.  House-poor neighbors who don't bother putting decks on all thier homes or finishing thier basements.
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: RadioFreeSeaLab on July 25, 2007, 07:17:15 AM
Title: Re: What does it look like where you live?
Post by: Modifiedbrowning on July 25, 2007, 10:11:13 AM
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