Photos of the world - Your city, your town, your photos!

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Originally Posted by Maximilian

Besides the strip and the casinos Vegas is known for, we do have some beautiful surroundings. There's the Red Rocks, Mt Charleston, Lake Mead, Hoover Dam,... and about 4 hrs drive the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Here's just a quick rundown of a few of beautiful sights I'm fortunate and blessed to see every so often.

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Home sweet home... Lovely photos Max.

here are a few pics of my current city: Chicago, IL

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I know it's a little cheeky to post more than one, but here's the view from my backyard, taken with a Gevaert Gevabox box camera on Fuji Astia 100 slide film:

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Originally Posted by bharner

I have nightmares whenever I drive through that area. And I'm used to the traffic in NoVa and on the beltway around DC and Baltimore.
I grew up in the Berkshires but now reside in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

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Wow great. I had no idea you had lived in the Berkshires. Looks like your living in a much better place. Yea driving around here sucks!

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Originally Posted by nicknbleeding

Wow great. I had no idea you had lived in the Berkshires. Looks like your living in a much better place. Yea driving around here sucks!

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I grew up in the little town of Otis. 35 square miles.1,200 year round residents. A lake, a few large ponds, snowmobile trails that I used as MTB trails in the summer. I miss the hilltowns.
I try and make it up on the winter to ski and in the summer to sit at the family homestead on the lake. My great grandfather built both houses we have on the lake. He was one of the first private owners after the Collins Company turned their three ponds in to a lake.
This summer we took the kids to the zoo at forest park on what turned out to be one of the hottest days up there this summer.
My two year old son tried to climb over the fence at every monkey cage.

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Originally Posted by bharner

I grew up in the little town of Otis. 35 square miles.1,200 year round residents. A lake, a few large ponds, snowmobile trails that I used as MTB trails in the summer. I miss the hilltowns.
I try and make it up on the winter to ski and in the summer to sit at the family homestead on the lake. My great grandfather built both houses we have on the lake. He was one of the first private owners after the Collins Company turned their three ponds in to a lake.
This summer we took the kids to the zoo at forest park on what turned out to be one of the hottest days up there this summer.
My two year old son tried to climb over the fence at every monkey cage.

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Otis is a very nice place. Very lucky to have grown up there. Ahh yes one of the 100deg days. I guess he enjoyed the Zoo. LOL! Thats good.

bill, i didnt know your wife was from OK, where bouts out there, from the pic i looks like some of the more rural farm area in the middle of the state toward the panhandle.

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Originally Posted by wvloony

bill, i didnt know your wife was from OK, where bouts out there, from the pic i looks like some of the more rural farm area in the middle of the state toward the panhandle.

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There are non rural areas of Oklahoma? Harrisonburg is more metropolitan than OKC....
Her folks live about an hour west of OKC on I-40. Not far from Weatherford.

but ofcourse, i lived for 2 years in broken arrow, a stones throw from tulsa, and you have a point about that statement, if i drove maybe 4 miles down the road from where i lived into bixby, i passed major sod farms the entire way. lol, they do grow good yards there

A photo of a fury little friend who seems to likes my jnats as much as i do!

I was shaking when i took that photo! I DONT like spiders at all! especially when they are as wide as my 3" stone!
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Be free little friend!
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Not really city related but we do get a lot of these here in Perth, Never on my jnats before though!