Tales of Home [3]

You can run but you cant hide Ringdrotten, well you can cause I get out of breath and need a fag and a buckie after a hundred yards but Ill find you, eventually!!  

its German actually .- Mrs Figg

Typical you dont even have your own flag, at least the saltire is Scottish and of historic significance

are Mancunians supposed to have their own flag  

Pettytyrant101 wrote:Its like reading the Lonely Planet in here, Fjordian edition  

why are u complaining? what they say is actually translatable.

As far as I could gather he was trying to keep his reputation up pending an upcoming award ceremony.  

Maybe he felt the competition was lapping at his heels?  

Stumbled across this this morning:



http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/fotograferte-meteor-i-stjordal-1.11352421

An amatuer photographer by luck captured a meteor while filming the northern lights.
Seems to be a lot of solar flare activity going on at the moment which leads to some spectacular sights.

yeaaaaah.... .. . . ..  i'de say the meteor is more interesting in that picture though.

As far as I could gather he was trying to keep his reputation up pending an upcoming award ceremony.- Bluebottle

Exactly! Been far to much jolliness about the place of late, its putting me off my buckie  

Yeah, should have mentioned the meteor. Thank you!

Not as spectacular as those from up your way the other day, I agree.



Though I'm not really the best judge. I've only seen it at Rauland, and that was just some wisps of light compared even to the one in Stjørdal.

it's the same light.

well I think its Amazing  you are all lucky to have seen it so many times it is normal, to me its mind blowing.

Norc wrote:yeaaaaah.... .. . . ..  i'de say the meteor is more interesting in that picture though.

You are one spoiled little Fjordlandian farm urchin.  Where I am you have to drive 20 minutes just to see the stars.

Little less near nature....

Cold,  clear evening in London town today.

This is the O2 arena ad it looks at night. If you can see the streak of red lights to its left, that is the cable car that goes across the river.



Next is just Canary Wharf at night. Couldnt get a good view from where I was standing though.

I've been to London, but didn't know you could take a cable car across the river. That must be awesome

Okay, I'll go ahead and post something from home. The little people in blue are one of the summer camps I run. This is about a 15 minute walk from my house. Great bicycle ride along the Hudson river. Yes, Manhattan does have greenery.

In my couple of visits to New York the thing that impressed me most, more than all the architecture, was the amount of prime real estate that had been set aside for green space. Very progressive, especially since the decision seems to have been made a century or so ago!

I think I posted this pic a while ago. It's my farm from the hills to the east.

You have both hills and an ocean within walking distance!   < those are the green horns of envy.

I have a friend who lives a couple hours away in Pennsylvania.  He lives out in the country and comes to see everything that makes New York different from the country. I revel in all the things that make it less like a city.  

It's fortunate the planning was done 150 years ago.  City life was far more brutal back then than now, almost unimaginably so.  To their ever lasting credit, they looked for ways to save the city from itself.  

By the 1970's much of this had been forgotten and the city was sinking towards an urban cesspool, but in remarkably short order the city pulled itself back from the brink and is now an enlightened place.  It wasn't all Mayor Giuliani - who swept through the city like a storm - it was largely the work of many community groups, either new or revitalized that sprang up before him and blossomed in his wake.

Great pics from everyone.  

     

Many green horns of envy

Those are all very pretty pictures, and from so different parts of the world.

Here's a picture from the part of Oslo I'm from:

    anyone who lives near water whether its a river, sea or lake gets the green horns from me.

The city is great. I am waiting for a train looking at the skyscrapers all lit up now.

I do, however love the country and the beach and forests etc just as much. Oh, and mountains and rivers!

I didn't realize you lived quite that close to the ocean, Dave!  Very jealous.

Bluebottle: I love all the trees and hills so close to the city. It reminds me a little bit of Juneau, Alaska, which is the most northerly city I've ever visited.

Thanks folks! It is pretty nice, though I didn't appreciate it properly growing up here.

It wasn't till I went off to the University that I realized how lucky I'd been. It felt so strange not to hear the surf in the background for almost the first time in my life....