Post pics from around where you live or have lived.

Illinoisguy1 · 22 Oct 08 :: 15:05

I thought it might be a good idea to post pics from around where you live or have lived.

They don't have to be yours. I guess a 30 mile radius would be good.

Here are a few I found online

I live South of I55

Fairly new Bolingbrook Promenade

2 aerial views of Bolingbrook Airport (to the left is a shopping mall with Meijer and Circuit City, at the bottom of the pic is another shopping center with a Best Buy)

Shopping center with Meijer, Circuit City and Home Depot is on the rightside

A newly remodeled McDonalds located at I53 and Marquette Drive

I'll post more later.
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TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Oct 08 :: 15:28

We have a new McDonald's like that too. It's one of their new "cafe" style restaurants where they sell fancy coffee to rival Starbucks.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 22 Oct 08 :: 15:36

Here's a few from near where I live...

TeeJay took this one in Little 5 Points. It's the freedom of speech mural:

She took this one too, of the restaurant and biker bar, The Vortex, also in Little 5 Points:

Another one from TeeJay, a panorama of Atlanta as seen from in front of World Of Coke:

Here's one of me in front of the Hank Aaron statue at Turner Field, taken by my friend, Elaine (bite me, Barry Bonds):

I love this pic, John Smoltz, all glowy on the Turner Field jumbotron:

The best seats I ever had at a Thrashers hockey game at Philips Arena:

magicalturkey · 22 Oct 08 :: 16:04

Here's a few pictures from google from good ol' Moon: home of the Tigers and the Colonials.

Football and sports is a huge part of living in Moon...

Moon versus Mars... no, really

The high school. Don't let the picture fool you, it has no windows
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Robert Morris University, the campus is smack in the middle of town

RMU also houses one of the oldest frat houses in the country...

The airport is on the outskirts...

And people coming into town sometimes stay at the Crowne Plaza. The building is fun to throw water balls out of.

And finally... there's where we are

TeeJay · 22 Oct 08 :: 21:33

These are pictures I have taken myself that are within a 5 to 10 mile radius of where I live.

My street:

The river Rhein:

And these are pictures taken off the web:

Monheim from the air:

Marienburg:

The Old Town:

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 22 Oct 08 :: 23:28

I have pictures from my area too, just took them last Saturday, but they're currently only uploaded to Facebook. Let me post them tomorrow.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 23 Oct 08 :: 05:35

I really like the pictures you posted, Deb. The first 2 you posted are really cool.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 23 Oct 08 :: 15:20

Have you ever been to Little 5 Points, Mel? It's probably my favorite neighborhood in Atlanta. Just very funky and cool.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 24 Oct 08 :: 04:53

Unfortunately I haven't. I've only been to Atlanta once when I went to the Coke museum and the waterpark in the summer. Hopefully I'll get the chance to go there someday soon.

TheCentralScrutinizer · 24 Oct 08 :: 05:00

Yeah, you gotta come down someday.

CappuGirl · 27 Oct 08 :: 17:43

This isn't really a picture.. A link to a site that has lots of pictures of the small town I was born and raised in.. Plus the site is in english. It's about this filmfestival we've had there annually for years. It's the midnight sun film festival.

http://www.msfilmfestival.fi/fpage.php?lang=1

Here's a link to the gallery about last summer's festival:
http://www.msfilmfestival.fi/galleria2008/

I went to this school grades 3-6. I even played some ball on this yard:
http://www.msfilmfestival.fi/galleria20 … ge_24.html

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domesticelefant · 27 Oct 08 :: 17:46

Here are some pics I took of the area my house is in. You can't see it in the pictures, though. I'll add more pics of the whole town soon. I tried to photograph the colors of fall, but it didn't really work.

CappuGirl · 27 Oct 08 :: 18:03

Hey I found more pictures. Better pictures of the place it self...

Mainstreet Sodankyla:

A vocational college. I studied here too:

The most beautiful thing:

Winter pic from up high over the downtown:

... and if you tought THAT was a small town, I was actually born 20 km off that place in a smaller town that has about 330 citizens. Here's a summer view over the lake:

And here's a treat for my german friends:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodankyl%C3%A4

As i you were really interestead! Sorry for getting too much into this..

CappuGirl · 27 Oct 08 :: 18:13

Here's ome pics from my current hometown

The old bridge winter:

The old bridge summer:

Here's a view to the north from the water tower. My house is actually in that direction, on the other side of the river, somewhere middle of those trees.

You can almost see Sweden in this picture over the town:

Hey, I was a trainee in this bookstore once:

On more pretty pic:

I'll stop bugging you now.

TeeJay · 27 Oct 08 :: 18:43

That's really beautiful, Maria. Finland is one of the places I'd love to see in my lifetime, along with Sweden and Norway. I've never been to Scandinavia. I almost went to Jyväskylä in August on a business trip, but that fell through, unfortunately. I'd love to see the Northern Lights! Must be absolutely beautiful. Well, one day...

-TeeJay

domesticelefant · 27 Oct 08 :: 18:52

Finland looks like a great place to live. I want to see one of those Northern Lights too!

Lynnie~ · 28 Oct 08 :: 04:40

There are some amazing pictures here, you guys live in beautiful areas! I love looking at pictures, and I may as well admit I love sharing them, too. Wanna see Seattle?

Here she is. In the rain (surprise, surprise, lol!). You can see the Space Needle in the background- lower lefthand corner.

A closer shot of the Space Needle, on a sunny-er day.

This is my apartment complex after a snowfall.

A white water torrent crashing through a gorge of rock in the Cascade mountain range just east of Seattle.

A hazy pic of Mt. Rainier south of Seattle

Mt. Baker, north of Seattle

A cruise ship, heading north to Alaska I expect. Those are the Olympic Mountains in the background.

A Puget Sound Ferry boat, with a slight glimpse of Mt. Baker on the far left

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, crossing the Puget Sound from the mainland to the Olympic Peninsula south/west of Seattle

Some autumn colors in a park in a suburb just east of Seattle

Quest Field at night, home of the Seattle Seahawks, reflecting off the Puget Sound (pic taken from the bow of a ferry)

All pictures taken by me with my camera.

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BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 28 Oct 08 :: 05:30

Great pictures, Maria and Lynnie. ( :

CappuGirl · 31 Oct 08 :: 21:36

TeeJay wrote:

That's really beautiful, Maria. Finland is one of the places I'd love to see in my lifetime, along with Sweden and Norway. I've never been to Scandinavia. I almost went to Jyväskylä in August on a business trip, but that fell through, unfortunately. I'd love to see the Northern Lights! Must be absolutely beautiful. Well, one day...
-TeeJay

Thanks for reminding me. I'm actually pretty poored at it all. :embarrassed: Dreaming of places far far away. Warm places.

My pics must make you all think Finland is just full of small towns but both of my home towns are in Lapland. Lapland was pretty sparsely populated to start with and the last couple of decades it has lost a lot of residents for lack of work. It's a shame really. Rovaniemi is the biggest city in Lapland. And I think that is the southest place to see the northern lights. The arctic circle is there too. And Santa! I'd actually love to move there. Always feels so magical to be there. That where my ex-bestfriend S lives now..

Um, some places that come to mind if you're planning a trip to Lapland.

* Sodankylä is best to visit at summertime. It's really beautiful then. And the sun won't set at all. And there's the the filmfest in june. Wintertime is pretty darn dark and depressing but if there's no clouds, you'll never see a clearer view of the stars and northern lights. If you're into nightlife there's few clubs and bars, pretty crowded in the weekends. There's two small skiing resorts in Sodankylä; one (Kommatti) is about 5km from the downtown, the other (Luosto) about 50km. In Luosto there's also a nice spa and hotel and amethyst mine. You can buy beautiful souvenirs in Sodankylä.

* Larger Skiing resorts are at Ylläs http://www.yllas.fi/?deptid=8951, Levi and Saariselkä. Each have spas too. I think Levi is the most popular and there's been a lot of development last few years. New hotels, cabins and such. Didn't find a good site about Levi and Saariselkä. There's also some smaller skiing resorts that I can't remember now. But Finnish skiing places are no Alps! Anyone who has skied at the Alps, most think these are all pretty tiny.

*Rovaniemi offers an urban view to lapland. That's where the main airport is. I think they're making flights to Levi too nowdays. At Rovaniemi there's also Arcticum (cool museum kind of thing), Santa Park (amusement park inside a mountain right at the arctic circle), and what else.. Well, here's a link: http://www.visitrovaniemi.fi/VisitRovan … nglish.iw3

* Oh, and some distance away from Rovaniemi there's a zoo called Ranua with lots of arctic animals.
There's another zoo called Ähtäri about 2-3 hours of driving from my home.

* Trains won't go norther than Rovaniemi. If you choose to use public transportation, there's lots of nice busses to sit in. for hours. Don't ever do that one with kids... Well, atleast the views are nice.
I think in the winter time there's a train from Kemi to Ylläs for the skiing people. I heard about it one year but don't know anything more about it.

* If you choose to come visit the lovely city of Tornio, You'll need to fly to Helsinki, fly a smaller plane to Kemi airport and then I can come pick you up. It's about an hour flight Helsinki-Kemi. By train that takes about 7-8 hours. Nice way to spend a day.. Some finnish sceenery. Lots of fields and woods. And cows and horses if you're lucky.
* Kemi is pretty dull. Just the huge snow castle in the winter. There's a harbour. beautiful view to the sea and nice ships, all kinds. Maybe someone there grew a brain and offers boat trips for tourists. Gotta ask. Oh, and there's the Icebraker- ship Sampo. You can go visit it inside.

* Tornio is a growing border town. Twin city is what they're calling this nice place now. The Swedish town Haparanda is right next to it. They're building us a joined downtown now. Lots of places to shop. There's lots of beautiful sceenery (nature and old houses), and you can go rafting at the Kukkolakoski. Oh, and there's lots of war memorial signs all over the town. Not that I'm into war, they're just really hard to miss. And ofcourse you can climb the hundreds of stairs up to the water tower (one of those war signs in the tower too sayng it stood there 1918 and served as a post) to see the whole town at once. There's an elevator too but it's broken a lot.
*Um, what else.. You can meet me! Come with me to our summerplace, really old house that survived the wars. You'll be trapped there with us without electricity and running water but enjoying the clean air, beautiful view and the traditional sauna. Well, it's not toally without electricity, we have a generator so we can watch tv. Oh, did I mention the old fashioned out house as in no wc. :rofl: Tempting, huh?

And about Norwey..
If you'll ever go to Norway, I recommend an island called Senja. It's just out of Tromso. There's a huge bridge from Tromso to Senja. I spent three weeks there 1998. It's so beautiful you would never believe it. And there's lots of sights in Senja. The ocean is different color in each beach. And there's this smaller island at the north side called husö (hus=house; ö=island in norge). It's 1km long and it's full of houses. And I saw these cute tiny whales there.
http://www.infonorway.com/regions/troms/senja.html

domesticelefant · 31 Oct 08 :: 21:58

My ex-hometown in Winter 2007.

I'll post more pics from my new town later.

CappuGirl · 31 Oct 08 :: 22:40

Wow, I love those shots, Anne. I'm a big fan of big trees.

Ryanne · 03 Nov 08 :: 01:14

What a cool thread, I always love to learn about other cities and cultures Will comment on your pictures later, don't have the time to read them all right now.

Here's my city, Leiden, where I was born, raised and still live.

BiggestChrisMarquetteFan · 03 Nov 08 :: 05:11

It's really beautiful where you live, Ryanne. I love Europe!

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