Take a picture of where you live...

[blackbeltninja]

I'll cheat and go with iconic, rather than interesting:

The postcard shot of Cape Town.

Table Mountain is front center with Lion's Head (and Signal Hill) to the right and Devil's Peak to the left and the CBD nestled between the three of them.

The shot was taken from my local beach, Bloubergstrand, about 20 minutes out of town across the bay in the northern suburbs on a beautiful and sunny day last March.

Not bad for a camera on a cellphone.

-d-

 

[blackbeltninja]

^If you watch the sketchier parts of Lord of War with Nicholas Cage, that shitty hotel in "Liberia" where he is given two hookers and all the related scenery was filmed in one of the poorer, less photogenic parts of Cape Town, about 3 minutes' drive from UCT Medical School where I work.

That help?

-d-

 

[Yooper]

Jeez, are there ANY JUBbers who live in ugly parts of the world?

This is a not-so-pretty part of Colorado...

 

[cocktales]

People rarely get to see this side of Las Vegas, that is the mountains!

Just 35 miles Northwest of Las Vegas lies Mount Charleston. It's beautiful, has a ski slope and beautiful trees too and in the summer it is about 20 to 30 degrees cooler than down in the Las Vegas Valley!

Here are some pictures on the way up to Mount Charleston for your viewing pleasure:

As you can see it is a whole different world up there!

If you get a chance to visit Vegas for any extended period of time, get in the rental car and drive up to our little piece of heaven!

 

[operafan]

Kansas City, MO

 

[holycrap]

where i live....guess where ?

 

[Ekim23]

Wow .

 

[Paws]

Lurvly, isn't it?

 

[metta]

That reminds me of the Palm Springs Tramway.

http://www.pstramway.com/

NATURAL HISTORY ROUTE
OF THE TRAMWAY ​

Traveling from the Valley Station at 2,643 feet above sea level to the Mountain Station at 8,516 feet above sea level visitors travel through the same flora and fauna that you would if you took a road trip from the Sonora Desert of Mexico to the Transitional Zone of Alaska. During the 10-minute ride you gain an elevation of 5,873 feet. The Mountain Station is the threshold of the 14,000-acre recreational area, the Mount San Jacinto State Park and Wilderness Area. Following is a description of the natural history route from Highway 111 to the Mountain Station.

HIGHWAY 111 TO VALLEY STATION (Elevation 2,643 ft):
Off the road to the left and just before the second gate, is a green area called a "cienega" (Spanish-marsh). Here are cottonwood, sycamore, wild grape, mesquite and scattered Washingtonia filifera palm trees (native to the Palm Springs area). Water flows to the "cienaga" by underground springs.
FAUNA: Desert Bighorn Sheep, kit fox, gray fox, bobcat, coyote, ringtail raccoon. FLORA: Barrel cactus, cholla, prickly pear and yucca. In springtime many wild flowers, including lupine, canterbury bells and various species of sunflower bloom profusely.

VALLEY STATION TO TOWER TWO (Elevation 2,643 to 4,100 ft):
Sonora Zone:
FLORA: Hillsides – whipple yucca, creosote, lavender, burrow brush, croton, wild apricot. Canyon floor – sycamore, cottonwood, elder, black maple, wild grape. A well-watered area cooled by winds from upper elevation.
FAUNA: Desert Bighorn Sheep are seen around station and at the "cienega".
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS: Primarily metamorphic rock; gneisses and schists produced when ancient sandstones, shales and older granites were altered by heat and pressure accompanying intrusion and rise of granite masses forming core of Mount San Jacinto.

​

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TOWER TWO TO TOWER THREE (Elevation 4,100 to 5,773 ft):
Upper Sonora and Lower Transitional Zones:
FLORA: Scrub oak and mountain mahogany, wild lilacs and apricot, manzanita, ribbonwood, first junipers. Continuation of other species from lower regions and desert floor. Chaparral growth on flats; ferns under trees and wild grapes. First nolins, similar in appearance to whipple yucca in Sonoran Zone.
FAUNA; Deer, mountain lion, fox, bobcat, Desert Bighorn Sheep.
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS: Granite, much fractured and intruded by lighter (quartz, feldspar) and darker (iron materials) bands and blocks.

TOWER THREE TO TOWER FOUR (Elevation 5,773 to 7,576 ft):
Lower and Upper Transitional Zones:
FLORA: Chaparral, Pinyon pine, juniper, yellow pine (flat or round top), scrub oak, wild apricot, scattered coulter or big cone pine, white fir (young ones are like Christmas trees, older ones have cones like candles on top). Chinquapin (dense growing, low and matted with pinecones), lupines and poppies.
FAUNA: Same as in lower canyon, but no bighorn sheep. California Gray Squirrel. GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS: Granite core of Mount San Jacinto. The mountain is not volcanic but rather it is granite batholith, a mass of granite solidified below earth’s crust and forced upward to form the mountain.

TOWER FOUR TO TOWER FIVE (Elevation 7,576 to 8,102 ft):
Upper Transitional Zone:
FLORA: All varieties of evergreens, firs, oaks that thin out as the peak (10,834 ft.) is approached.
FAUNA: Same as in the preceding zone.
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS: Upthrusted granite ridges heavily fractured by winter freeze-thaw cycle.

Photos
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=palm springs tram&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

http://www.friendsofpalmspringsmountains.org/ecosystems.html

People rarely get to see this side of Las Vegas, that is the mountains!

Just 35 miles Northwest of Las Vegas lies Mount Charleston. It's beautiful, has a ski slope and beautiful trees too and in the summer it is about 20 to 30 degrees cooler than down in the Las Vegas Valley!

Here are some pictures on the way up to Mount Charleston for your viewing pleasure:





As you can see it is a whole different world up there!

If you get a chance to visit Vegas for any extended period of time, get in the rental car and drive up to our little piece of heaven!

 

[unloadonme]

OK, here's my home town from outside the city walls:

 

[Jayden]

View from my bedroom patio

 

[Triple G]

My neighbors are asses. Burros actually

 

[Narcissism is fun]

This is a nice place to live.

 

[metta]

Wow....that looks a lot like the view from the house I grew up in Glendora.

View from my bedroom patio

 

[Jayden]

Wow....that looks a lot like the view from the house I grew up in Glendora.

It overlooks sherman oaks and the rest of sfv.

 

[dpnice]

Here is the one that is in my gallery - a view from my terrace.​

 

[Corny]

A few more pics, because this place has many faces.

Current industry:

What we made of old industry (not colored, the lights are there - this is a HDR photo)

and combined with new buildings (HDR)

And still in between a lot of nature:

 

[Ekim23]

Germany's awesome...

Europe's awesome LMAO

 

[unloadonme]

This is what's going on right outside my office window. The Leeds International Pool is being demolished. It was a 1960s icon for some and an eyesore for others.

 

[ozguy]

Jubbers, this is where I live ...

From our back balcony ..

Main street ..

Harbour entrance ..

Views over town ..

Coastal views ..