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Yes with a "u"  ;D

Carlos has been posting pictures of beautiful Panama City.... which made me think we need a place to show off our home towns.  

The neighbourhood, region or places where we live.

Or have lived at some time.

So..... here's Melbourne  8)

(http://www.floodslicer.com.au/library/folio/sm/fifty_albert/v12_hamt6654_50_albert_aerial_a3rgb.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Melbourne_yarra_twilight.jpg)

Love Melbourne! Great pic!

Here's the main street in my little Arizona mountain town, Prescott:

(http://www.menupix.com/town_img/PrescottAZHP.jpg)

My house is about ten blocks to the right of the center of that photo.

And about five blocks in the other direction, you leave town like this:

White Spar run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaEl_OQk50#)

We're surrounded on three sides by the Prescott National Forest (mostly ponderosa pine & juniper forests, depending on elevation as you'll notice changing in the video above) and by Willow & Watson lakes, which are about what you'd get if you flooded the valley floor of Joshua Tree National Park:

(http://www.granite-dells.com/images/granite_dells.jpg)

  Vikings, fishing, skiing .... you know  ;)  Oslo  [thumbsup]


(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/diverse%20uinteressant/oslo-in-the-winter.jpg)

(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/diverse%20uinteressant/Oslo_sponsor_740.jpg)


Right across the street from my home is the Vigelands Park  [bow_down]
(http://i329.photobucket.com/albums/l394/stopintime/diverse%20uinteressant/oslovigeland.jpg)

Neighbors
(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/2009-06-13_alpacas18.JPG)

Walking the dog down the street
(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/2009-04-04g_watson_wurr.JPG)

Part of the commute
(http://paularickert.net/albums/userpics/20091101_alpine02.JPG)

The park 5 minutes from my front door.

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/47953_4250192464386_1038670829_n.jpg)

In winter:

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/216398_1055898449032_4588568_n.jpg)

Less then 10 minutes the other way!

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/p206x206/602393_4292731687840_1424698473_n.jpg)

Brisbane, I live just to the left and down a bit from the stadium in the foreground.

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm259/andrewb172/explore-cities-brisbane-brisbane.jpg)

Cool.  Next cricket match at the 'Gabba and we're all back to Brimo's place afterwards  [beer].

the view from my front door

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff194/hires_melissa_photos/DSC_0193.jpg)

the neighborhood

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff194/hires_melissa_photos/DSC_0271.jpg)

(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff194/hires_melissa_photos/DSC_0285.jpg)

Bedstuy Brooklyn  [Dolph]

veiw from the roof
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/256333_694348624591_1948087713_o.jpg)


my main mode of transportation
(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/561568_10200173880455303_65053876_n.jpg)

my friend came to visit, she didnt like the incline of the bridge so we walked it haha
(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/12762_10152254700725574_2079587547_n.jpg)

Loving this thread.
Excellent pics people!
Thanks for sharing!  [thumbsup]

sigh.... my commute takes around 45 mins to get 6 miles [bang]

Great pic's!

this might be one of the most interesting threads ever.
getting out my camera tomorrow!
 [thumbsup]

I too need to get the camera out. 

I think that the pictures should be ones that you've taken yourself.

1191 pics of my hood

https://vimeo.com/54965914

^ You could get your self killed riding at those speeds!

They said I'd shoot my eye out first.

You shoulda tossed the goose into the sidecar   ;D

those where peacocks and peahens....lot of them ;D

I like this one better... http://vimeo.com/40559396 (http://vimeo.com/40559396)

 ;D

Even better   [thumbsup]

those were both cool videos!


mitt

Cool angle and bike but such a bad idea.

Yeah I agree, where are the fun police when you need 'em?

We were going about 1 mph on the street in front of our house. I sped the video up about 3 times  ;)

I know, I know. I've just been to too many deals where someone capable and careful was met with someone less so and it turned into a tradegy. Be ultra careful with those that we love.

Sorry for the thread jack...I'll find/take some photos.

Back of my house
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8243591958_ec57f08947_b.jpg)

Over the road from the front of my house
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8343/8243593146_591e43e1a1_b.jpg)

Two dogs, are those Cockatoos yours, or wild?

A friend had one as a pet, smart as a whip, but like a 4-year old with a pair of side-cutters when angry....

Damn... you people live in way cooler places than I do!

CT, USA is boring... lol

Speeddog they are wild birds
They are actually a pain in the ass [bang]  if you feed them they come around if you don't they still come around and tear up all the timber.
I know one Lady who had $5000 worth of new timber decking destroyed by them in an afternoon  [bang]
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8058/8250214641_7d26a3bfcd_h.jpg)

I have trained my dog to chase them away now. ;D (http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8251281228_4637e80948_h.jpg)
We get lots of Rainbow Lorakets much nicer bird very friendly they will eat from your hand and fly into the kitchen and sit on the table while your having breakfast
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8250211603_e2a7d435de_h.jpg)
My favorite is the Kookaburra (Kingfisher family) coolest bird in Australia
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8487/8250213579_08e2c7db01_h.jpg)

Yeah, sounds like Cockatoos, my friend's bird was really hard on on the furniture and cabinets when it was angry.
Hard on people too, I spent a lot of time there, and I was the only one who never got bit.  [laugh]

Those lorakeets are really cool, as are the Kookaburras.

That's a really cool shot, however!  [thumbsup]

Hey all, real nice, gorgeous places you all live in

Ung, thanks for starting this thread, everything started with one or two pics and a few guys had been here before and so I started posting the pics . . .but, Australia IS in my list . .. 

will try to post a few from my house and surroundings . . .

Cool thread.  [thumbsup] Those birds are amazing!

Here's mine...taken during a favorable time of year.  :)

View from a friend's backyard
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/081812Train1.jpg)

Cool bridge (in the best part of town)
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/081912Bridge2.jpg)

Who doesn't like sea planes?
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/090912Ducks-plane2.jpg)

On his way to visit Grandma and Papa
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/091412Ferry1.jpg)
(http://i114.photobucket.com/albums/n258/JJGeo/091412Ferry2.jpg)

I lived in Philly for 5 years. This pictures was taken before the Comcast building.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC00340.jpg)

After Philly, I went to the motherland for a bit

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC00666-1.jpg)

Moved back to the US and now I reside in beautiful Lancaster PA

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC00337.jpg)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC00264.jpg)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC01209.jpg)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC01805.jpg)

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/DSC01866.jpg)

Some fabulous pictures in this thread  [thumbsup]

At the start of this I posted a couple of pictures of Melbourne.  I've lived in a few cities around the world and Melbourne is my Best Yet.  But the very best thing about it is that I dont live within.....  

160kms east of there, in the hills of South Gippsland is my backyard....
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8478/8251474425_416b332bbc_k.jpg)

and at a different time of year...
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8068/8251463581_7d699b2331_b.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8477/8251463611_86689ca201_b.jpg)

and during the bush fires of a couple of years ago (the day before we evacuated)...
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8484/8251439045_c0371cf1de_b.jpg)
(http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8349/8251435677_7a5a32f3f0_b.jpg)

...those bushfire photos have not been photoshopped... were taken in the middle of the day, the sky leaden with smoke  :(.  

We suffered no losses.

beautiful ung . .  last one can't see

Thanks Carlos.  The last one I could see  :-\  ...but then I edited it out... coz pictures of other people's burning houses are not "my back yard"...

OH, ok . . .

Hey I was born in South Gippsland, my folks lived there when they first came out from England. I spent a lot of weekends in the Hills around Toora and Foster chasing Bunnies and fishing for flatties in Corner Inlet.

A side by side view of Panama City from 1984 and 2012

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/17819_519488071409393_2002325301_n.jpg)

Our front "yard" in the summer:

(http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn43/Desmodiva/FB_IMG_13471398580673436.jpg)

Lots less activity now.

Waiting to see how much it freezes in the winter.

This thread is turning into my happy place.   [thumbsup]

Gorgeous photos!  I can post a pic of the oil refinery a few miles away from the casa or the side of the neighbors' house just a few feet from this one but I'll spare you all and will stick w/the mountainous shots that are a short drive. 

 ;)

I shall soon post pics of my rides .  .  . Camera suddenly "appeared" it had been missing for almost 4 months

A walk along the river this morning.

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm259/andrewb172/stuff/29122012229.jpg)

Nice front yard DD  [thumbsup]

When I was a young bloke, back when Bonn was the capital city of West Germany I lived in Oberkassel  ...rode my bike across the Ardenauer bridge to work/play every day.....
(http://de.academic.ru/pictures/dewiki/79/Oberkassel.JPG)

(http://wallpoper.com/images/00/38/95/98/bonn-panorama_00389598.jpg)

Like that last shot Ung!

JM

Mine last year:

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Snow%20-%20Jan%20-%202010/DSC_0184.jpg)

JM

I've lived a variety of places.  Each I still consider a little bit home.

Grew up in a NJ suburb:
(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/IMG_0597_zpsf26c7aeb.jpg)

Went to school near the Shenandoah Mts of Virginia:
(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/265107_2244074503419_1815315_n_zps9faa9e79.jpg)

First apartment after college was a shanty home next to a Weinerschnitzel in San Diego.  It smell like hot dogs always:
(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/207326_2029307254372_2571325_n_zps86ca4add.jpg)

Spent years in SF and LA, but for some reason I've no neighborhood pics.  Am now in Manhattan:
(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/IMG_1335_zps4d84b339.jpg)

...but spend a good deal of time at my sister's in west-central NJ.  Great riding around the area. (And peaceful):
(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/IMG_1410_zpse61f1204.jpg)

(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/IMG_0747_zps051da6e5.jpg)

Here's a cool (literally!) shot of Denver that I snagged from Facebook:

(https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/14617_404651046279971_912124373_n.jpg)

The park you see is City Park, which is about a mile west and south of where Stella & I live.

the first video I took with my GoPro when I got it last Christmas, I went from my house to a quick little powerline trail and came back home

GoPro test run on KTM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OEGRFmMIdA#)

Taken in my neighborhood this morning:
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0077-1024_zps08f41a29.jpg)

JM

Great pic!

Looking out my living room window a few minutes ago

(http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/740518_4661612829638_208332953_o.jpg)

Mt Rainer, out my window and to the left

(http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/544030_4661636950241_7802966_n.jpg)

Today's view from the "office"

(http://i298.photobucket.com/albums/mm259/andrewb172/20140403_070428_zpsd741a2dc.jpg) (http://s298.photobucket.com/user/andrewb172/media/20140403_070428_zpsd741a2dc.jpg.html)

Good view of Huntington Beach that shows a bit of the harbor and the Bolsa Chica Wetlands. My house is near the yellow star. The wetlands have some cool history with remnants of old WWII installations (mounts for guns that fired shells over 25 miles) and an old bunker they just got rid of to build some $2M homes. We still have monthly civil defense air siren tests though I think they are for tsunami's now. There is a mile long stretch of beach south of the wetlands open to dogs off leash.

(http://i813.photobucket.com/albums/zz56/hbliam/b14bdeb3-5bf3-4177-adec-1c36369c290c_zps8660650a.jpg?t=1397933514)

I think we have friends in your building Brimo....

Will take some pics from around home to share to the thread also

That one was taken from the helipad on the new children's hospital. (You can just about make out Wills, Kate and baby George over the other side of the river  ;) ) 

Posted it on the un-official pic thread

The view from my neighborhood,

 (https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/t1.0-9/10521159_347288355428369_3213580268979137881_n.jpg)

Moved to brooklyn from manhattan recently.  This is now my view from the street corner.  Not bad.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5570/14615862167_3e3b039928_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ogy7Bz)

The woman next to me took the same picture 30 seconds later and by pure chance lightening struck the freedom town spire (in the center).  Guess I just missed the perfect shot.

Pretty nice neighbourhood shot nonetheless GW  [thumbsup] [thumbsup]

A collection of before and after of my town

http://panamaviejaescuela.com/ciudad-de-panama-14-fotos-de-antes-y-ahora/ (http://panamaviejaescuela.com/ciudad-de-panama-14-fotos-de-antes-y-ahora/)

Cool pics! I used to post here years ago. I've in Panama four years now, 3 1/2 years in the Boquete area.

My house - Alto Boquete, Panama

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/746/24he9L.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/540/w2Rtra.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/661/cml1WE.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/537/y0AxvZ.jpg)

My coffee

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/913/wPQjDI.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/538/kVwdLH.jpg)

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/538/44H3MQ.jpg)

Unrelated

(https://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/479x269q90/674/DA5h5u.jpg)

Taken along the Susquehanna river today.

(http://i784.photobucket.com/albums/yy130/rappevan/E3A2D11B-B6C5-4EA6-850D-62AF3D9ACF46_zpsr49zbkg3.jpg) (http://s784.photobucket.com/user/rappevan/media/E3A2D11B-B6C5-4EA6-850D-62AF3D9ACF46_zpsr49zbkg3.jpg.html)

Aerial view of the city

(https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/q83/s526x395/7040_740097829406873_3383002812207144086_n.jpg?oh=5a199029b505847ac008d8289fcff0d8&oe=549B2F30&__gda__=1420258670_f3ae1803968985e203c0ff3e3c5ba50e)

Amador causeway, nice!

...y cinta costera.

My Backyard messy garden ;)
(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8670/15475873584_c7d33d04fa_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/pzxU3C)

View of the bush reserve from my back door...
(https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7520/15910903680_c5056110a4_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/qeZxkw)

you've been around?

I'm not sure what you mean? I live in Panama.

Gotcha ... In Boquete, bout, 5 hours from my place,  [beer]

Live feed of our front "yard."

http://the-tonawandas.com/live-harbor-cam/ (http://the-tonawandas.com/live-harbor-cam/)

 [thumbsup] [beer]

Aerial video of the city and some other tourist areas,

Un pedacito de Panamá desde el cielo | Tomas aéreas de Panamá (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUvdYR0Oww)

Video from Mendocino Hwy 128 I don't live here anymore but 4 generations are buried around here so It will always be home no matter where I hang my hat.

Hwy 128 East of Mendocino (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4DaP2KM0t4#)

View from my High School.

(http://www.innsofmendocino.com/images/packard/home/pic_pack_2.jpg)

Fort Bragg. & the old GP Mill site toward the ocean.

(http://www.birchardphoto.com/stock/images/IMG_2726.jpg)

It's just a few hours from here where I used to live & work. Glad I don't live there anymore.

(http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/01/RS13989_87856673-qut.jpg)

 [roll]

There is only one REAL Ft Bragg.
(http://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/fayobserver.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/2/0e/20e216a8-7c9b-11e3-a23f-001a4bcf6878/52d45d2c5fe07.image.jpg)


 :-*

I will Defer to that. The Original Fort Bragg never reached the size & scope of the current Fort Bragg, and it's purpose was entirely different.
But it was the first, and it helped settle the area for the White Folks and helped disenfranchise the locals, which I guess was good for you and me, mostly...

Can't remember the last time I saw ice floes around Manhattan.  It be cold here.

(http://i1262.photobucket.com/albums/ii603/1pt21GW/Untitled_Panorama1_zpsu7ri1nwa.jpg)

Mine at the moment...

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/House/20150216_145158.jpg)

JM

The lake just a couple minutes from my house:  Yes, the Canada Goose is technically 'walking on water...'

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/DSC_0237%20-%201024.jpg)

JM

Is that golf ball?

Almost, just ice chunks from the storm, about golf ball sized!

JM

A little more time now with the InterAmericana construction between David-Santiago. I've lived in Panama for over 4 years now. I didn't realize PC has a Duc dealer now.  8)

Carlos "The Last in Line" still "works" there at the Ducati Dealer.

One of the local roads I ride.  You'd be amazed to see the difference compared to summer weather.

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0250%20-%201024.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0245%20-%201024.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0262%20-%201024.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0269%20-%201024_1.jpg)

JM

My current neighborhood.  Looking over Irvine during the morning workout.

(http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa14/akido10/Quail%20Hill%20Irvine_zpslxmktppr.jpg)

That looks familiar -- didn't you post a "summer" shot with your bike in just about the same spot? If so, that is quite a contrast!

Little bit of snow in Alabama the other day.


(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8630/16684456292_acc4f1491d_c.jpg)

Fairly positive I did.  Can't find it at the moment (I only have 5 disc drives) This is a common riding area for me.

Here's a contrast for you, on the same road:

Summer (on my wife's Hawk 650)
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Holly-Hawk/NC215-045-1200.jpg)

Taken last week:
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0253%20-%201024.jpg)

JM

 [thumbsup]

Close to the house, a bunch of birds that were sitting on the ice until they saw me.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_1778_zpsrj8lysqt.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_1778_zpsrj8lysqt.jpg.html)

The little bit of snow that fell night before last.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_1783_zps1ii7tx92.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_1783_zps1ii7tx92.jpg.html)

On The Dog Walk.

(http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/bb347/dapaoli/IMG_0011_zpseadmcyvg.jpg) (http://s1201.photobucket.com/user/dapaoli/media/IMG_0011_zpseadmcyvg.jpg.html)

Snow and ice are gone, replaced by the fog.  Oh, wait, it's ny...I meant da fog.


(https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8570/16790572346_7899b59dd7_c.jpg)

Very cool pic.  [thumbsup]

Indeed. [thumbsup]

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z312/Langanobob/IMG_0466_zpsr5zkuxur.jpg) (http://s191.photobucket.com/user/Langanobob/media/IMG_0466_zpsr5zkuxur.jpg.html)

(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z312/Langanobob/Coyote1_zpsgy71pllb.jpg) (http://s191.photobucket.com/user/Langanobob/media/Coyote1_zpsgy71pllb.jpg.html)

He looks like he could stand a cantaloupe!

JM 

Love these mountains!
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0378%20-%201200.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0385%20-%201200.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0387%20-%201200.jpg)

(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Scenery/DSC_0391%20-%201200.jpg)

JM

Love your pictures.

Those are great

My backyard neighborhood this afternoon:

A woodpecker (Red Bellied) building a nest in a tree:

Step 1 - Dig out some wood shavings.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Animals/DSC_0065%20-%201200.jpg)

Step 2 - Fling them about.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Animals/DSC_0066%20-%201200.jpg)

Step 3 - Watch them flutter to the ground.
(http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn168/the_journeyman/Animals/DSC_0067%20-%201200.jpg)

JM

Very cool.  [thumbsup]

Neato

Early morning on the Brooklyn Bridge as I started a walk around Manhattan.

(https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5464/17463420812_0a54740181_c.jpg)

What happened to the last several posts?

Whatcha mean?  You looking for these?

http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=39965.msg1309433#msg1309433 (http://www.ducatimonsterforum.org/index.php?topic=39965.msg1309433#msg1309433)

Yes. That be the one.

Cool pics JM, 1.21GW  [thumbsup]

What did you shoot that with? It looks really sharp.

Haven't spent much time here. But it was quite nice.

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There's a Boat launch here as well.

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This is a different spot.

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And I like this shot from the hill

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http://www.us.ricoh-imaging.com/digital-camera/ricoh_gr (http://www.us.ricoh-imaging.com/digital-camera/ricoh_gr)

Mine is only an 8 MP

What I like about the Richo GR is that it has the same size sensor (i.e. picture quality) and features as a DSLR, but is in a modest body.  So it is smaller and easier to carry and also doesn't look like something expensive someone would want to steal.

 [thumbsup]

A smart theif wouldnt want mine. It has security features that will render it useless. But some Crackhead would want it in a second. And there seem to be plenty of those.

I used to have a little Nikon point & shoot but I gave it to my Dad.

Sensor size and lens make the camera.  I shoot with an older DSLR body but have an excellent Tamron lens that really makes the most of the camera.

JM

I just shoot with an iPhone now. The pictures come out pretty good but theres no Zoom or telephoto lens. One thing that is cool though is that the photos are usually on the computer by the time I get home.

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Billboard over I278 near my apartment.

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A biking/walking path that cuts through the east side of town. It's reclaimed Rail Road alignment, now owned by State Parks. It's kind of nice path. The pavement goes on for several miles and there are a couple of trestles along the way. Then the pavement ends and it continues to at least the next town.
It's too bad that it doesn't connect to the west side of town, but that would require an expensive bridge or tunnel to make it over, or under the Rail Road switching yard that seems to be in the way. Someone should tell Union Pacific that they are standing in the way of progress.  [cheeky]


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My little country seen from space

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Here's my neighbor Tom, setting out for an afternoon drive with his 3-legged Yorkie, Willy:

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 [thumbsup] 8)

 very cool

OK so not a pic. But this should get the point across. This is a 2 minute walk from my house in FL
https://youtu.be/18K_oV6vwoQ

Cool vid  [thumbsup]

Thx! Another neighborhood pic from across the river -
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Can't figure out how to embed a video though  [bang]

Just one of those days...
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Klamath Falls this winter.


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Heated Sidewalk at Veterans memorial Park

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Main Street

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Steens Sports Park, Joy & the Dog

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Dead Indian Memorial Hwy

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Part of the trail network around town.

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Various shots of Klamath Lake

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Various shots of Lake Ewauna

Nice . .. might have to plan a trip over  . . .

Give him six months notice to stock up on food

Nice pics Mendo Dave  [thumbsup]


A heated footpath.... now there's something I don't see every day.

Much of the downtown has geothermaly heated sidewalks. Many houses and buildings are heated that way as well.

It comforts me to look at the huge snow capped volcano to the south, the smaller one to the west, and ponder on the massive crater in the mountain to the north that was formed when said mountain blew its top.

I guess theres a roiling cauldron of red hot rock down there doing its thing.

.... explains the heated footpaths.

We rely on sunshine from above 8)

That only works in the summer around here.  :D

A look at my town . . .

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I like the building that looks like soft serve ice cream.  [thumbsup]

We call it "The Screw". . .

What is the multi colored structure in the foreground?

That the Bio Museo, designed by Frank Gehry

I pefer to think of it as the soft serve building

you meant teh foreground or background?

The Bio Museo looks like a kids toy box emptied on the floor. I just got back from two weeks in PC.

Yesterday's sunrise . . . missed it today

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Is your neighborhood in Blade Runner?

Never again.  Bugger  :-\

make the beast with two backs in fact.

Now you're with us here. [evil]

It's been a fact for three decades mate.  Cobber.  Me old cock-sparra  ;D  [beer]

Still hurts, to lose what you notionally have.

I could live in Spain I think. Felt at home in Murcia.

Me too.

Oh.. wait  [bang]

Still long to get back to civilization?

como??

I love where I live.  Where I belong.  The place I'm delighted to call home.

Pictures of Your Neighbourbood.

Before Nate pulls this truck over  ;)

Indeed...

Fixed. I think.

Like I've said, like a puma. ;D

I'll get it back on track.  Been living of and on in the mountains of Peru during the past month, so this basically counts as my neighborhood:

(https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7647/27596292532_6e6936d1df_c.jpg)



And these are my neighbors:

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7315/27662608856_72f7407ea0_c.jpg)

Very cool. [thumbsup]

Pretty rough neighborhood. [thumbsup]

No kidding.  Bodies are everywhere:

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I think there's a chupacabra loose in the area...
 ;D

The Llamas carry flick knives. :o

They don't have fishers. ;)

If there were Fishers, the Llamas would be carrying Glocks.

:o

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS . . . A house can be had anywhere, but, home, is where you are whole . . .

Here's the kind of things seen daily...
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Our weekend place - a converted Great Northern Railroad depot set out in the high prairie. Not much of a neighborhood.  Testing out the drone I got a couple of years ago.  Video could've been edited down to about 30 seconds but here it is anyway.

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First flight with new DJI drone in 2014 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7WlvDcbFM#)

Pic from my soon-to-be neighborhood - a lightning-caused fire about two miles from where we're building the house up south of the Grand Canyon.

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/8/7593/27747705890_cc9fae3fb5_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/JgYfff)20160620_115557 (https://flic.kr/p/JgYfff) by triangleforge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7138702@N03/), on Flickr

It moved really slowly to a final size just shy of 6,000 acres - and I'm pretty sure the USFS re-lit it a couple of times as it was keeping within the boundaries of a fuels-management area they planned to burn anyway.  Less paperwork like that.  ;D

NOT my neighbourhood per se, but my city

(https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5261/29870242906_68641f6c49_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/MvwNy3)Dawn from balcony (https://flic.kr/p/MvwNy3)
(https://c8.staticflickr.com/6/5687/29278929663_3a2ec5491e_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBhaJ8)Tormenta Ride (https://flic.kr/p/LBhaJ8), barely made it to the car, disassembled the bike, got in the car and just started pouring . . .
(https://c5.staticflickr.com/8/7472/29278013244_3809509fc1_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBctiN)City from Causeway during ride (https://flic.kr/p/LBctiN)
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5135/29278012984_e8a60af8ca_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/LBctej)War games (https://flic.kr/p/LBctej)

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About 15 mins from my place. There is even a small vineyard one mile away.

Perty.   [thumbsup]

Mostly my neighborhood - I can bike over to this lake it's a small lake with a walking path (1.6 miles or 2.3 miles) & a road going around it.  Popular social & walking/jogging/bicycling spot

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JM

Niiiiiiiice

+1. Looks a peaceful spot to live.

It is until I fire up Molly [laugh]

JM

 ;D

My neighborhood today is San Blas, México.

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Looks wet there, great shot!

JM

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, apparently.  [thumbsup]

You and 1.21GW should start selling your pics.
Seriously.

A couple of days ago in my neighborhood.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-lp90Zczok

This was Saturday at start of group ride, first one at start and second one where we divide the groups:
(https://c4.staticflickr.com/6/5533/31060752171_3f28e80cef_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PjJttR) (https://flic.kr/p/PjJttR), Saturday group ride, start
(https://c6.staticflickr.com/6/5657/31175135805_86d3f3a301_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/PuQHKt) (https://flic.kr/p/PuQHKt), Saturday group ride, group division

This was the outlook on Sunday, look at the road and you will see it is wet:
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This is what I've been seeing for the last 2 days, pics taken today:
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Short vid:
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Oh, it rained very hard here in Boquete. 24-32 hours at a time straight since Friday. My friend traveled back from PC today and said it was dry there. Hope we get that here tomorrow. My nuts are getting "crotch rot" after Otto's piss fest.

ADG,  give me a call when you make it to PTY  . . .or send a pm   . . maybe a beer?

pm sent

Probably many beers. I have to go to PTY after the first of the year on business...and to get my big city party fix on....every six months whether I need it or not.

 [thumbsup]

Yesterday up on the hilside.

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(http://www.boquetetour.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/bocabrava.jpg)

Isla Boca Brava.

That's not looking much like Wyoming.

We're not in Kansas anymore Toto. ;D

Nor would we want to be.

It's bad enough that driving on I-5 through California's central valley reminds me of Kansas.  :P

🍇🍇🍇🍇

👍

Good food and wine and great roads to ride. [thumbsup]

There's something reassuring and comforting about the neat rows of vines.

It's restful. At least I find it to be so. I love driving or riding through the wine country.

Wyo was just a four year phase to make money. Hated it except for the great two months of "summer".

When I ride by them I imagine I'm plucking the strings of a enormous harp or guitar or something.  It is very soothing.

Taken a few mins ago by someone

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Nice 👍

Bird's eye view of the city

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All the buildings look the same.  ???

what can I say . . . 

What about that one with the swirl?

That's an old pic. Many new high-rises now including Trump Tower on the point there...shaped like a spinnaker.

Same vantage point now at Punta Pacifica.

(https://trumpadmin.trumphotels.com/uploads/641/15/cp-hp-gallerysm-photo1.jpg)

F&F Tower in Punta Paitilla.

(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/F%26F_Tower_03_2015_Panama_1603.JPG)

the pic I posted was focused mainly on Punta Paitilla . . .Punta Pacifica was just behind it

I forget if I was putting the cool cars of my neighborhood here or elsewhere; this land schooner is usually parked a few doors down from me, so it's definitely my neighborhood:

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Even prettier than usual off my front porch this morning.

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My father use to call those 'Jew Canoe's' back in the day.  [laugh]

Just a bit out of town, but still in my county.

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Beautiful. Whereabouts?

Crater Lake Natl Park.

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The place opens in May. After they clean up all the blood coming out of the elevators and put the axe away.

http://www.craterlakelodges.com/lodging/crater-lake-lodge/

Looks fuller than I remember.

Wow. Didn't even recognize it. Used to bike around it in late summers. Great area.

Today's look of the city from CC3

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A few pic of the city and some surrounding areas on today's ride

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/750/32213761371_21b1ab1789_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/R5BWWP) (https://flic.kr/p/R5BWWP), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/650/31522917173_5315ff7776_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/Q2zc2X) (https://flic.kr/p/Q2zc2X), on Flickr

(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/518/31956808000_38c497f265_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/QFUZEh) (https://flic.kr/p/QFUZEh), on Flickr

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

I would never leave the fireplace.

Yeah, and be careful using the elevator.  It gets a little wet.   ;D

I hear there's about twice as much snow now as is in that picture.

 [thumbsup]

(http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/17/980x490/landscape-1461946297-shining-bike-carpet.jpg)

Is that evergreen maze there ? or was that "fake" just for the movie

I have no idea, the real Overlook hotel was filmed in Canada I believe.
The lodge at Crater Lake just reminds me of the Overlook.

The exterior shots were filmed at the Timberline Lodge at Mt. Hood.

I did not know that. Of course thats just a couple of hours through the snow from Stapleton Airport.

My first movie date was to see that movie. She held on tight. We joked about "red rum" for weeks. :D

Steven King was inspired by a stay at the Stanley Hotel (Estes Park, CO).  The premise was that it took place in CO.   

(http://i63.tinypic.com/zx2rf7.jpg)

This is closer to Mother's neck of the woods. About 4.5 hours from me. If we don't stop in Bend to try out one of the many Brewerys.  [drink]

It's not -- that was a movie set.

My neighborhood for the past 3 days has been Ometepe.  Each night at 5p I grab a beer and sit on the peer pier and just watch scenes like this.  Every sunset somehow is wholly different from every other, so it never gets old:


(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/393/32035095510_9b4102629e_c.jpg)

Do your peers get angry when you sit on them? ;D

Spelling was never my strong suit.   ;D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug

That lil fukker still gives me the creeps.

Every couple of months, my neighbor Tom has something new & interesting parked out front....


(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/616/32671333482_d19d7a26de_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RM48c9)2017-02-10_12-47-22 (https://flic.kr/p/RM48c9) by triangleforge (https://www.flickr.com/photos/7138702@N03/), on Flickr

Packard ?

I think so; I haven't had a chance to ask him yet, and it's now in the garage with his other toys.

[thumbsup]

(http://www.gullco.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lake-aerial1-2000x1330.jpg)

I have fond memories of that lake.

Not yet my neighborhood, but it gets closer with each weekend of work...  

The main outline of the post & beam frame of the main, straw bale house at Lucky Dragons is up and we can finally see what it's going to look like against the sky - man, that North wall is tall! Guess we should be thinking of adding a loft to take advantage of it.

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Once the roof is on & the inside is somewhat protected from the elements, we can start stacking bales. Lots of bales.

In the meantime, here's how far we've gotten in a weekend's work on the solar equipment shed - framing & sheathing on the walls, and a couple of rafters up on the roof.

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A couple more shots from this weekend:

Code Inspector Fluffy on the job:

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North wall interior:

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FIFY

Looking good!

What's the cost estimate to do that project?

Down at the Park.

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We're trying to do as much of the work as we can ourselves and using recycled/reclaimed/stolen materials* to keep costs down, with a budget a somewhere north of $45K, and so far in good shape to stay relatively close to that target. The big ticket items will be the timber framing (which we hired) and solar system (which we purchased). Mistakes made along the way go into the "education" item in the budget, and that one may go a bit over.  ;D

*No items were stolen in the making of this straw bale house, certainly not anything anybody's going to miss...

Jeez, it's been too long. Here's my neighborhood (the nearest full-time "neighbor" is about 2 miles away), complete with a completed, final-inspected, bureaucracy-approved strawbale house that's warm and cozy, even when it's 0 outside and we don't want to bother to light the wood stove:

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My lovely wife, stacking straw last summer on that tall north wall:

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A whole lot has happened since I last darkened the door around here, but it feels good to be back.

Nice to 'see' you.

Thanks. I missed this (virtual) place!

 [thumbsup]

Indeed!  Some photos of the inside please.  How far from the city? Still got chickens?  Sorry about all the questions :-[

Thank you! Let's see...

We're about 15 miles from the nearest gas/mini-mart, at Valle, AZ - apparently too small to be called a town, it's a "Census-designated spot."  [laugh]  Everything else is about an hour away - Flagstaff to the Southeast, Williams to the South, and the South Rim of the Grand Canyon to the North.  We're on 36 acres of what used to be a several-thousand acre cattle ranch. It's pretty dry, pinyon/juniper forest, with a reasonable snowfall most winters and a month or so of monsoon in the summer. We're down to three chickens, with the other three in the freezer & plans for another 8-10 chicks in the spring. Spring might also see a beehive or two, and maybe even sheep in the fall!

The place is small, probably 600 square feet, with one large room that wraps around into the kitchen, and a bathroom. Sometime this year, we'll probably be building a loft area above the bathroom & enclosing a back porch/mud room on the north side.

Pictures! Here's the NE corner of the main room - the plan is for a simple loft to extend to the beam just to the right of that painted skate deck.

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This is the kitchen, under construction still a couple of months ago. The countertops are crude & temporary while I'm working on a couple of big live-edge ponderosa slabs for the back counter, and trying to figure out what would work best and look cool under the sink. I've seen some concrete counters with multi-colored glass that I kind of like, and think I might be able to make. The counter in the foreground is a long woodworking bench; we've been gradually plugging up the bench dog holes with wine corks.

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The view into the bathroom - the trim around the door is more of that ponderosa, from a friend in Flagstaff with a portable sawmill and lots of logs to play with:

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When I looked into the cost of shower curtain surrounds for clawfoot tubs I was momentarily out of breath, but then realized I could build the same out of 1" copper plumbing sweated together AND buy a cheap Harbor Freight tubing roller and still come out way ahead:

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The floors are flagstone we salvaged from the discards pile of a local quarry. Because some of the grouted areas are a little wide, I started putting stuff in them in a few spots - old door keys, coins from all over the world, etc. This one's my favorite:

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And a few more outdoor shots, while I've got a little momentum....

Here's that north wall again, and the west wall with final plaster (about 1.5" of earthen plaster, and 1" of lime plaster for water resistance). We colored the walls with patches of copper sulfate or iron sulfate solutions, which react with the lime to make the tan & olive patches - our objective was to look kind of like the lichen-covered basalt that is all over the volcanic fields here on the Colorado Plateau. The figures above the windows serve a purpose - you want to divert water sheeting down the wall away from the windows, so we figured we might as well make them entertaining.

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And another indoor shot, that shows why build with straw - this is a typical winter morning indoor vs. outdoor temperature - usually we'll light the wood stove for an hour or so when we get up, just because, but almost all of that differential is from solar gain and great insulation. And it's nice and cool in the hot Arizona summer, too...

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Want to come visit? We've got a guest room:

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Very cool. Great work. [clap]

Fantastic home! 

We had visitors this evening...

based on their 'shape', and appetite, I'd venture saying they're carrying this spring's crop of fawns.

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Beautiful.

Incredible, I love NW AZ [thumbsup]

Thanks! Our door's open for DMF folk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPrPI_ie-o8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTwtHrcb8HA&list=PLJ_aNtk5SSxvlBY_p62GuRX3DsL-dF2wl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFavUmmS10g&list=PLJ_aNtk5SSxvlBY_p62GuRX3DsL-dF2wl&index=18

Stunning and so peaceful to watch on a chaotic day!   [thumbsup]

On any day . . .

Wow

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/norge-fra-lufta/2019/KMTV20000918/avspiller

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/norge-fra-lufta/2019/KMTV20000818/avspiller

https://tv.nrk.no/serie/norge-fra-lufta/2018/KMTV20000218/avspiller

Beautiful landscapes. Maybe one summer I'll visit. ;D