This is a static copy of In the Rose Garden, which existed as the center of the western Utena fandom for years. Enjoy. :)
I've been thinking about the fact that I live smack-dab in the middle of a national forest, and that some people actually may think that it's kinda gorgeous. Personally, I like cities, but that's just the I-want-out-of-this-tiny-town side showing.
So please, if you can, post pictures of your community/habitat/whatever, and I'll post pictures of mine!
First one:
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wow...its georgeous!!! i gotta get the nephew's camera and i will take a picture if tomorow is a nice day.
im jealous!
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This thread would be totally up my alley if my only camera wasn't a camera phone. Regardless, I'm going to make it up my alley by buying a disposable and making a picture CD.
Post to be edited with pictures of old factoriesm sunsets, and hawks and shit. D:
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That's a beautiful picture! The scenery, and you're very pretty, I love the red lipstick.
I used to live in a forest area that looks like that.
Once I find a camera, I'll join in the fun too, even though I live in the city.
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I can share with you 2 cities: Playa del Carmen (Mexico) and Granada (Spain).
This is where the king lives, the second pic it's a little bit blurry, but it's the same palace. Ok, yes it's in Madrid (I live in Granada) but i was in Madrid this weekend 8D my city is so small and so old it has nothing special at all. Just a giant mountain full of snow all the year.
La sierra nevada.
Welcome to Granada, and Carlos VI's castle.
Playa del Carmen!! DIEEEE my house is there!! i can't wait to go back this summer. He's Pulga, my aunt's dog.
Finally, my tropical house. It's MINE.
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SOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!!
man. New England sucks... at least we have the blue hills about an hour away...
the two pics are kinda big..so i link em..
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278 … eHills.jpg
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q278 … Hills2.jpg look! a sign thingie!
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If my brother was here, I would have a tone of pictures, but instead here's some pictures that I found online.
These mountains look even more beautiful in the fall.
I've been to the top of that mountain. My brothers have hiked to the top, and skied down it. They're both insane.
I've been here before, too. Unfortunately, I don't live near any of this. I live in the boring part of New Hampshire with hills instead of mountains and pretty streams.
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Unfortunately I don't have any decent pictures of my hometown on photobucket right now, but I do have a couple pictures I can post before I get back to my own computer. I like pictures.
The Otago Peninsula, as seen from Lanarch Castle -- no, I don't live here. I went to university down the road. I find the picture interesting because it's amazing how much the area resembles Scotland...and the Scottish were the only folk crazy enough to colonise the place. Hence why everyone around here rolls their r's, has bagpipes at their weddings and like getting drunk. ...or maybe that's the Irish.
(That's the university, by the way. ...well, the clocktower, anyhoo.)
This is here because this is where I feel most at home -- terrible picture of me, but that's actually Scotland this time. I am, in a roundabout way, Scottish -- although I am also English and probably Irish to boot. But yes, the Highlands of Scotland -- go there. Go there NOW.
I live in England.
Land of fish and chips.
And scones with jam.
I do not, however, live in London. This is Sheffield. Dreary and grey. I hate it. It's a very industrialised city even now, and I am used to farms and sheep and cows and lakes and rivers and THE OCEAN, DAMMIT.
But sometimes? There are rainbows, at least. Even if they're creepy rainbows.
This is back home for me -- I don't live here though (although I wish I did). I just spend enough time here that eventually I will feel like I did. This is a river off Lake Te Anau, a quiet Southland town in the middle of nowhere. It's perfect.
This is another small town in a different province (Central Otago). Arrowtown's main street. GREEN!!! (I miss green.) I adore this place, and when I return home I'm likely to come here first. If you come to New Zealand, you must come to Arrowtown and Queenstown. No question.
Dolphin! I adore dolphins. And I adore this water. It's a fiord -- wrongly called Doubtful Sound and is, quite frankly, the most beautiful place on the planet. If I don't die here, I want to be buried here. It's a national park so they'll have to toss my ashes into the water, but that's okay. I like the water.
The fiord, more properly. ...yes, this is heaven.
I could spend forever here, and not be satisfied.
...I wish I had better pictures to share, but like I said my laptop is at home and I am not. So, when I get back there -- we shall find pictures of Oreti beach. Interesting only in that Anthony Hopkins once rode a motorbike down it while doing a reasonable fascimile of my accent! Oh, how I love that man.
...oh, and just to be a bitch, because I am in neither England nor New Zealand right now, I have to have this one here to say I'M HERE AND YOU'RE NOT:
...yeah. I like pictures too much.
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*clings to England for the life of me X_____x*
I still have scones and jam everyday. And with Devon cream no less. delicious delicious Devon cream...
Actually I'm from Shanghai, but I was raised as English.
But I live in San Antonio so here's a random shot of the Alamo I found.
I've been taking landscapes and the like for months, but somehow always come back with macros....
Will try harder this week X__x
Why don't I get to live somewhere as pretties?
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All your cities are beautiful compared to Charlotte. [I didn't take these pictures btw.]
Downtown. I've been here more times than I can count. The pictures make it seem prettier than it is.
Another downtown shot. I'm sure whoever took this shot didn't know, but seeing as I live here, it must have been Superbowl time when this was taken, because the lights on top of the Bank of America Tower are blue [we are the Panthers you know, and our colors are black and blue]. See the tall tower I'm talking about, with the blue lights? Right there? My mommy works there.
That's Queen Charlotte. City's named after her, if you couldn't guess. Obviously we valued her influence very much, since we let her chill at our airport. I still find that statue to be rather silly looking, and I laugh whenever I'm at the airport.
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Wow, everyone lives in a place prettier than mine. *sooooo jealous* I have to rely on sunsets to make San Diego look pretty The part of town that I live in is especially unattractive. "Carmel Valley" is synonymous with "HOOCH" in every other part of the city. Gawd. I feel so out of place, here. I'm always exploring the different neighborhoods looking for interesting stuff, and this is the best that I can come up with:
This is the park across the street from my house.
Eucalyptus trees ahoy! There are so many of them around here, I'm surprised we don't have Koalas yet.
Usually there are a few pairs of shoes hanging from the telephone wires, but not today...
Canyon.
More of that same park, different day, same time (I swear, there's no other place to go to nearby...).
And now, my haven!! Balboa Park, which is located downtown. It's the nicest-looking place in the whole city (don't let those travel advertisements fool you, San Diego's beaches are smelly and gross).
THERE ARE DUCKS!!!!
Japanese tea house and garden.
Yup... that's all I have...
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GOD everybody has lovely places. Frickin' GORGEOUS.
Here are more images:
My back yard. There was a huuuuge snow storm a year ago, and since we live in a national forest, we can't ask anyone to come out and fix it. And grandpa's too old to go out and haul trees around.
Back yard again.
NOT my back yard this time. This is Slagle Creek, which branches off of the Manistee River. The area is very nice and very green.
Heeheehee.
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Dollface, your queen looks like she got kicked in the tummy. Not very comfy.
I have a question, do my Disney pictures count for this thread? 'Cause that's what I have the most of -my house is in a pretty typical suburb, and I don't hang out downtown a whole heck of a lot. I am at disney a lot, tho...
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Sure! I mean, it's where you work, take a whole bunch of pictures! We want to know the world as YOU see it!
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Oh AWESOME. I love seeing all the pictures of where people live, and I've wanted to start a thread like this for a long time. Here are some starters I found on my laptop.
Welcome to Southern Arizona.
My old high school on a rainy day. I had a tendency to take a bazillion pictures of every rainy day, as they are so rare here, and make everything seem so tropical. And may I also add that there is no smell on earth like the desert after the rain.
I think this picture was taking looking east of Scottsdale Community College. We were launching rockets in the parking lot.
Ahahahaa my BC Calculus class from last year. I have way too many pictures of shit from high school.
The view from the front yard, on another rainy day.
Back yard, same.
I can't tell which street this is, but I think it's somewhere in Central Phoenix, around downtown.
I took this picture out my window.
The front yard again, GORGEOUS STORM.
The railroad tracks that run west of Mill Ave, by ASU in Tempe.
And as a bonus:
THEY WILL EAT YOU.
I need to find some pictures of ASU and the dorms...
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I have some winter photos, when I was skiing.
http://img442.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0002un0.jpg
http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0062jh9.jpg
http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=img0063ab3.jpg
I'll search some more photos, because I was near the place where some scenes of "Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe" was making.
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This is how I view sun rise from my flat. (I live on the 26th floor.)
These two photos are taken from where I live.
In Hong Kong, most people live in a flat, not a house.
Edit: Sorry for the poor quality, they are taken by my phone.
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everything you posted is so beautiful, I'm waiting for another photos!
I especially liked Clarice's home.
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I don't have much, seeing as I'd have to actually put on shoes in order to give you an in-depth look at the lovely 2 acres we live on, but here's just a couple o pics.
Oh, and these are of my camp, which I shall be going to very soon. I'll miss you guys.
This is a picture of the foundations of Mohawk Charlie's cabin...
Mohawk Charlie is an urban legend in the camp about a man who was on a plane that crashed into Mohawk Mountain with his wife. His wife became brain dead, and he was devastated. So he would go into town every night and kidnap one little girl with red shoes (his wife wore red shoes), take her to his cabin, and kill her.
I dunno if it's true or not. It would be AWESOME if it was true. But I doubt it is.
FOREST YEY
This is the view from the top of Mohawk Mountain. I hiked up there when I was camping. It was BEAUTIFUL! This picture doesn't even BEGIN to do it any justice.
More of Mohawk Charlie's cabin. OOOOOOHSPOOKY!!!
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hm... photos are actually older, made with analog cam... old? we speak of 2003 zz;
One of my countless sunsets I photograph in summer from the rooftop of our house.
View out of my room-window in winter. And I didn't change colour or lightning, it's natural. Oh well, I'm bothered by the cable hanging from the roof but geez >>;
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I just can't help showing off the new camera. I hope these aren't too big:
First, here's a shot of the quad at my campus:
Next, a closer shot of the fountain in the quad. Yes, that's a fountain (this is KC after all), and yes, it's running right now. The shot doesn't show it very well, but there's water pouring from the top of the posts and running down the sides.
This is a shot of the new building. Pretty creative, don't you think? I mostly was trying to get the storm clouds actually.
The commons:
And a nifty close-up of one of the hibiscus. They're actually larger than they appear on your screen, probably.
I'll probably post more before long. New camera joys.
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Nice campus, Stormcrow. Mine is ugly. I miss Purdue! But Purdue doesn't have a library science program, so I'm screwed.
I live in a very ugly area currently, so no scenic photos from me. If I ever get around to setting up the scanner on my computer, I might post up photos of where I grew up though. Anyone want to see lots of pictures of cornfields and dirt roads? No?
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Cerise wrote:
Anyone want to see lots of pictures of cornfields and dirt roads? No?
I did mention I live in Kansas, right?
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Stormcrow wrote:
Cerise wrote:
Anyone want to see lots of pictures of cornfields and dirt roads? No?
I did mention I live in Kansas, right?
Right, so that's a no... Well then, I've got nothing!
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Cerise wrote:
Stormcrow wrote:
Cerise wrote:
Anyone want to see lots of pictures of cornfields and dirt roads? No?
I did mention I live in Kansas, right?
Right, so that's a no... Well then, I've got nothing!
If I were tired of cornfields, I'd have moved by now. Although I do like fountains... I've only been to Indiana in passing, is that where you grew up?
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