really bad 'coke storm'..tobster was up for nearly a week afterwards.. :D

The Sierras from my father-in-law's back porch. El Capitan is visible in the notch above the oak. Much more impressive than the view of my place.

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oil...i'd have probably married the gal just to get access to such a view.. ;)
ryan

I decided to change the gardens around a bit last weekend. Waddya think? :D

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Western North Carolina not too far from Asheville but closer to Cherokee. I was looking to buy a vacation home in the Asheville area and asked Procon for some pointers, the next thing I knew I was buying a home in his hometown.

Suburban condo world last Jan.

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The Pit. Out my window until a new condo went up and blocked the view in the last month..

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wow..'the pit..really makes you pause..just stops the heart..

jim..i rolled through asheville last month..couldn't help thinking what an awesome place to live it would be..i have family close by in knoxville. bacxk when i was flying air ambulance in lears, i flew into asheville a couple times..bothe times in really bad weather..a little spooky with all them rocks around.. ;)
ryan

Here is sunset at my parents house, a picture from my apartment wouldn't be quite as nice. Not the best picture I've ever taken from this location but it is the only one I have in digital.

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Two views from my living room windows in downtown Lowell, MA.

This is the view down Merrimack street, the clock tower is city hall.
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Here's Palmer street where it intersects Merrimack (directly under the traffic lights from the first pic), there was a parade when I took this one.
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A view looking down my runway on a "bad" day a few years ago.
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my house last winter

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and in the summer, green

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here are a couple of mine:

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Wow, such beautiful scenes. Late winter this year.

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okay..you guys have thoroughly demoralized me. i'm gonna officially 'unsubscribe' from this thread before i take desperate action.. :(
ryan

I'll take a pic from the front door of my house in Florida. It should make you feel better. I live in a real blue collar neighborhood. Nothing fancy here.

thanks, jim..i'd appreciate as crappy a pic as you can muster! :D
ryan

I have crappy too and will try to supply one later both from Work and Home... Both are bad... :D

Ryan,

Bought the place eleven years ago and it was a total dump...they couldn't give the place away! You couldn't even SEE the barns behind all the srcub trees, brush and vines.
Many bush-hogging days later we're getting there...

Vessels put up high and dry by Katrina. In Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Taken last week.:( http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1150827990.jpg

Question: Why haven't they been moved yet? Where are the owners of the boats? Strapped for Cash or insurance? Just curious...

Apparently both. There was an article the day I left for Alabama in the NY Times. Most of them still stuck did not carry insurance. I did see a barge being lifted outside of Biloxi, MS and that was a huge operation..

thanks, seahawk..i feel a little better now.. ;)
:D

My desk. SmileWavy
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Here's a view out of my office window. Each year a family of seagulls has a nest on our 4th-floor patio and this year their nest is right outside my window:
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(I'm not sure why there are 3 of them...)

This is the 4th year that they've nested on our patio. Here's a pic of last year's yung'uns:

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cute pic, owain.. :)
ryan

Yeah, we're proud of our kids :) We watch them grow up; get bigger, lose their fluff and grow feathers, then, one day, they...sniff...fly away...they never call, they never write...actually I think they come back for a visit sometimes, but, really, they all look alike.
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As promised. When I was buying this house my friends were teasing me calling the subdivision the Golden Ghetto. Real blue collar neighborhood. I have one of only 2 Porsches in the entire neighborhood. The other looks like an early 70's model in need of a little TLC.

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A pic of my backyard through my slider. I think the dog wants to come in.
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It is only an idea, but if you invested in a flat panel monitor and hung it on the wall, you could get back about half of the very nice bench

I hate to be off of topic, but Jim what city did u end up buying property in?? Procon I am also looking into WNC. Asheville is the general area but seems kinda pricey, go 10 minutes away and prices drop. Buddy of mine lives in Black Hills or Black Mountain. i'm gonna go looked on a 3 day weekend at the end of the month. I on good note from what i understand there aren't any dynos in that area, closest one is in Charlotte, i have one so when i move i'm bringing it with me :)

Actually....That IS a flat panel monitor. I changed out the Comcrap PC tonight for one I built a couple of years ago. Its been on my tool box like that for about 5 years and I am used to it. :D

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The construction below is the new Trump building.

Guys, some of you are missing the "zeitgeist" of the moment. It's not the grandeur of the place, it's the personalization of it to your milieu.

Post your location when posting to Pelican, or post where you'd like to be of your places, when posting to Pelican.

See if you can scoop up some of their "residue", it's great fertilizer.

Damn web footed crows.

Sorry, lost it for a moment.

Great view of human activity, which I always aplaud. At the same time, must tell you I'd not live nor work there for $200k a year. Glad you're there though, keeps them from asking me.:D

Fastpat, it's getting to me too....

Yep. Couldn't agree with you more...

I have to add, however, there are some completely awesome landscapes here.....

Simply beautiful.

Likewise if I can be of help. While I don't know for certain, there are race shops in the A'ville vicinity who should have dynos available. I think there's one south of me in Greenville.

This is where i'm at, i sold my house here in Fl. I used to go vist my grandfather in the charlotte area., so i'm looking within a 20-25 mile radius of charlotte(rock hill area to mooresville area) and also the western part of the state ie asheville. I have a shop now that i will be taking with me, i want to do it as a hobby to make some side money still, but my main goal is to finish school. i was aking about the dyno because i have one and if there isn't one in the area, thats easy money for me :)