Here's my home, Snohomish...where's yours?

[rustydog]

[qnr]

1. Augusta, Maine

This is Old Fort Western

[rustydog]

14. Hello Maine! It looks a little cold there

:hi:

[qnr]

17. I prefer to think of it as "invigoratingly brisk" :)

:hi:

[rustydog]

28. I lived in invigoratingly brisk Montana as a child!

:bounce:

[qnr]

15. self-delete

[Left Is Write]

2. Hey! I know someone in Snohomish.

Boise...




And "back home"...

[rustydog]

7. wow, great pix!

:bounce:

[SeattleGirl]

3. Seattle

[rustydog]

8. Seattle is a beautiful city. I'm glad I'm 40 minutes away.

It beats driving from Yakima!

[SeattleGirl]

11. My sister-in-law and her family used to live in Snohomish

It's a beautiful area.

[rustydog]

27. You're right. I've been here about a year.

Looking for a house...a bit more pricey here than in Yakima!

[SeattleGirl]

30. And even pricier in Seattle

But I guess you have to weigh the area you want to be in against the price of living there. I love Seattle, even though its expensive.

[Nevernose]

18. Seattle's on my list of places to move

People from there actually talk about rain like it's a BAD thing. At this point in my desert rat lifestyle, i wouldn't mind it a bit.

[SeattleGirl]

20. Hello!

Actually, those of us who are natives of the Northwest, especially the rainy west side, actually don't mind the rain too much. But in January and February, we tend to get the most rain, and it can rain for weeks at a time. That gets to us after awhile. But, despite what people from other areas may think, it really doesn't rain 365 days a year here! :hi:

[rustydog]

31. No, but it sure seems like it in Snohomish!

This year was the first time it rained during a Seahawks game in Qwest field. Seattle doesn't get the rain we do up here.

[The empressof all]

58. We get more rain and sometimes even Snow in Snohomish

I love, love, love Snohomish.


Here's part of my yard during the snow this season.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

59. it's all propaganda!

there's a group out here called "Lesser Seattle Inc"... not as active as in years past, since it's founder/chief protaganist (anyone remember Emmett Watson?) died, but far from defunct. LSI's primary campagin is to convince the world that Seattle is actually a moor in the midst of a bog in the midst of a rainforest submerged under a raging waterfall... and that we NEVER see the sun!

They promote the Seattle Rain Festival -- Sept 1 - to - Aug 31.

Actually, we get THREE WHOLE DAYS of sunshine EVERY YEAR!!!

:toast: :spank: :snarkysmirk: :sarcasm: :snarkysmirk: :spank: :toast:

[SeattleGirl]

71. "Lesser Seattle" -- I know that group.

Emmett Watson was one of my favorite people, and I loved reading his columns in the paper. :toast:

[flamingyouth]

51. Mine too - Just sharing the love

[Swede]

4. Here's Saskatoon.

[rustydog]

9. Amazing photo!

[GOPisEvil]

5. Downtown Austin, from on high.

[rustydog]

10. I've never been in your neck of the woods but hope to someday

:bounce:

[LynzM]

6. Willimantic, Ct

Home of the "Frog Bridge"

[rustydog]

12. Too cool! My step-daughter would lovw the bridge!

B-)

[LynzM]

13. It is pretty neat!

They put scarves on the frogs in the winter, too *grin*

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

60. COOL BRIDGE!

I'm currently camera-deprived: any of you locals got pix of the Fremont bridge, or the Seattle Troll?

[Nevernose]

16. Viva, Las Vegas!

Funny, though, I can't find any images of what Vegas looks like to me, but these are good tourist shots. And frankly, it's starting to look too much like Southern California for my tastes, I think soon I'll be packing it up and going to Arkansas.

[rustydog]

21. P A R T Y !!! Vegas is a gas. Love it

:party:

[SeattleGirl]

22. One of my very favorite vacation spots!

I was just there in October to celebrate my 50th birthday!

[Nevernose]

34. And THAT's why the hypothetical DU Gettogether should be in Vegas

Someone always says "St. Louis" because it's equally inconvenient for almost everybody, or "DC" because that's where Skinner, etc. already are (and they're ass-kissers), or "Chicago" because it's easier for a lot of people to reach for a day-trip.

I say Vegas: If everyone shows up and we all hate each other's guts, we can all at least get blind stinking drunk, put $78 on green -- for no apparent reason -- and then take a great big communal piss off the Casino Royale, and the authorities won't say a thing if you have an out-of-state driver's license.

In fact, I'll even show everybody how to get to the roof of the Casino Royale.

[SeattleGirl]

36. A Vegas DU get together would be fabulous!

[elshiva]

19. Monkton, MD Home of Elkridge-Harford Hunt Club

[rustydog]

24. Beautiful countryside

Where is the guy who blows the horn and says: "Tally ho!"?

[elshiva]

26. He's there somewhere. Monkton Thanksgiving tradition, fox hunt

starts after church at St James.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. Here's my town: Manhattan Beach, CA....a suburb of LA......

[rustydog]

25. I dig California...My grandpa lived in Anaheim ages ago

:hippie:

[SeattleGirl]

29. Hey, darlin' Miss Peggy!

I just remembered I went had dinner at a Manhattan Beach restaurant a few years ago. I was in LA for the tae kwondo Olympics. My daughter and her sister were competing in them.

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

32. My dear SeattleGirl!

You DID? Do you remember the name? Or the approximate location?

How very cool about your daughter and her sister.....

I was living here then!

You were most likely within a mile of me!

Funny little world, isn't it?

How are you tonight?

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

33. I can't remember the name of it. But the food was good.

I'm doing pretty well tonight. Just hangin' out in the Lounge! :loveya:

[Nevernose]

39. Oooh, ritzy!

That was my impression of it when I was there 10-15 years ago. I stopped in at a friend's uncle's place, and discovered that it wall to wall mahogony, approximately six feet wide and was four stories tall, and cost him a million dollars. And we got turned away from bars (not nightclubs, but bars) because we weren't dressed well enough.

I hate to sound like some kind of weirded-out hippy, but most of SoCal has a very negative vibe to it. Some of the people there were extremely kind and polite, but most of them were incredibly rude. Most people think I'm clinically insane when I say this, but I assure you that there are some people out there who know exactly what I'm talking about.

[Aristus]

35. Puyallup, Washington.

[SeattleGirl]

37. Hey, neighbor!

:hi:

[Aristus]

40. Hi, SeattleGirl!

:hi:



Meeker Mansion, Puyallup's second-most popular tourist destination, after the Puyallup Fair.

[SeattleGirl]

47. That is such a great house

I love it.

[Mojambo]

46. I know a guy from Puyallup. I'm in Fall City.

[SeattleGirl]

48. Another neighbor!

:hi:

[rustydog]

53. I ain't that far away from your neck o the woods

[zone]

38. Alburtis, PA

Grew up in Washington, though...

[In_The_Wind]

41. Saugerties, NY

Opus 40

[SeattleGirl]

42. Hi Joani!

Nice area you live in!

[In_The_Wind]

44. Thanks SG. It's countrified. There's a small heard of buffalo near here.

[SeattleGirl]

45. Cool

Hey, I PMd you back a short while ago.

[In_The_Wind]

49. .

I just answered you.

So ~ I'm sorry it took a while to get back to you tonight.
When the answer is a long one, it takes a bit more thought.

[Gormy Cuss]

63. Oh! The life work of Harvey Fite!

You just opened a lost file on my brain's hard drive. Haven't thought of Opus 40 in years.

[In_The_Wind]

74. The natural geography of this region makes a perfect background.

[redwitch]

75. I didn't know you were so close to me!

I am a northern neighbor from Washington County- about an hour and a half north of you. I go through Woodstock area quite often. Haven't been to Saugerties in a bit, still lots of cool antique shops?

[yvr girl]

43. I would love you forever if you'd take me up in a balloon

High on my list of things to do.

Here's where I live. My place is not far from the bottom left-hand corner of the picture.

[rustydog]

54. My kid sister is visiting from Denver and one of the excursions

I plan on is a Balloon ride through this beautiful valley. Cascades on the East, Puget Sound and the Olympic range on the West. BEAUTIFUL!

[Blue_In_AK]

50. Anchorage, AK

[rustydog]

56. I have an ex-brother-in-law in Anchorage

[XemaSab]

52. My mom used to live in Sultan

But I live in Redding now

[rustydog]

55. I haven't been over to Sultan yet. Probably will when

House hunting.

[XemaSab]

67. There's NOT MUCH THERE

except local political drama! :bounce:

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

57. beautiful (?) downtown Lynnwood...

...just a stone's throw away... thank the transit gods, less than 30 minutes away! (North of Seattle, for the Puget-deficient in the vast reading audience!)

[insanity]

61. Ashland, OR

I took this picture over winter break:


I also consider Portland and Seattle my homes, but haven't taken a recent picture of either.

[DarkmoonIkonoklast]

62. This is truly a beautiful country...

from sea to shining...

I've seen most of it, at least to pass through... coast-to-coast and border-to-border at least a dozen times (sorry, Alaska, ain't been to you... yet!;-) )

I've lived in more than a dozen cities in half a dozen states in my 56 years... called Pugetopolis home for the last 29 (30 in October); I love it all, mountains and canyons, rainforests and deserts, wildernesses and megaurbs... it's all inspiring, the people (damn near everyone I've met) are brave and funny and diligent and loving and...

When Katrina slammed NOLA last summer, I felt gut-punched; I cried (then had to explain the waterworks to my kids) for my old neighborhood (Decatur St across from the Cafe du Monde) and my neighbors...

I guess that's why I'm so obsessed with retrieving it from the shrub and his owners... :cry:

I am so grateful for this place (DU) and for you crazy wonderful people!

[Bridget Burke]

64. Houston's Art Car Parade

Not the weirdest art cars, but this picture also shows the skyline.

More Art Cars here: www.artcars.com/index.html

In my neighborhood--Travis Elementary, with a glimpse of the mural created by "Beans" Barton, of Beans & the Bipeds.

[donheld]

65. Denver

[NYCGirl]

66. New York city.

[Tikki]

68. Ventura County CA...

Mountains, Foothills, Valleys, Plains and yes that is the Pacific Ocean off in the horizon...
All this within 15 miles...



Tikki

[Taverner]

69. San Ramon, CA

[Shell Beau]

70. Here are some

The reservoir not too far from my house.



Part of the Natchez Trace

[NV Whino]

72. Napa Valley

Spring


(A friend provided the caption)


Autumn

[Starbucks Anarchist]

73. Los Angeles.

[Kerrytravelers]

76. Pasadena, CA.

The Craftsman and Art Deco there runs throughout the city.


La Loma Bridge


City Hall


City Hall up close.


The Rose Bowl on game day.

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Now the Arroyo Seco, taken in 1940.

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The famous Huntington Hotel, 1914.

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The famous Hotel Green, 1905. This still stands prominently in Old Town.

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Tournament of Roses, 1891.

[Duncan Grant]

77. San Francisco

[SeattleGirl]

78. San Francisco is one of my top 5 favorite cities!

:hi:

[Duncan Grant]

79. And Seattle is one of mine!

Great minds and all... ;)
Seattle is wonderful and I'd love to explore the Olympic National Park next time I'm up that way. :hi: