March 20, 201213 yr Dude, I hope you were on the #55 when you shot that, not driving! :-o I keep hearing all these fog advisories but we don't get any fog near the lake. Looks like it's happening a little bit inland. But nice pic, even if you are a rolling deathtrap during rush hour on Ohio's longest bridge! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
March 24, 201213 yr My friend shared this photo with me....good stuff! It was taken inside the clocktower of the Huron County Courthouse in Norwalk a couple of years ago when they were restoring the clock to working order.
March 24, 201213 yr Very nice! Here is one from tonight. Sadly, the Xavier Musketeers lost out just by a few against the florescent yellow Baylor Bears. Go X!
March 30, 201213 yr That is acceptable. There are many things I don't like about Wal-Mart, but I can accept them as long as the stores conform to the existing urban fabric rather than tear it up.
April 6, 201213 yr I took this in Oregon last week checking out some waterfalls. I will probably start a thread and post some more pics from my trip soon. Oregon_279 by KP SMITH, on Flickr
April 14, 201213 yr ^Nice! Here is something more depressing. This building is on West Main in downtown Louisville, Kentucky and is for sale - but needs some TLC to its cast iron facade.
April 17, 201213 yr Ah yes. It's one of my favorite cable-stayed spans. It lights up really nice at night, too.
April 27, 201213 yr Snapped this random shot of a new bike lane on Wabash. It's okay, but with the city installing all these new cycle tracks, I'm surprised this wasn't selected. Mayor Emmanuel has pledged to build 100 miles of completely separated and protected cycle tracks. They are appearing across the city by the month, but Wabash shown here could have easily knocked out 2 miles.
April 27, 201213 yr ... and two cyclists riding against traffic, despite the fact that there's an opposite-direction lane on the other side of the street. I see that frequently and I want so badly to stop them and explain things to them, but the guys I see doing it usually are roughneck types who could and probably would pound my a**. Edit; Add the observation that these two are wearing dark clothing at night and riding with minimal or no lights. Maybe Darwin will right the situation.
April 27, 201213 yr "effing terrorists!" is the preferred ny response. unfortunately the bike lanes are quite a mixed bag for pedestrians. its good to take out roads for bikes of course and its good to have an island to hang out on if necessary in the middle of the street, but you have to look back and forth so many times just to cross a street you can get whiplash!
April 27, 201213 yr "effing terrorists!" is the preferred ny response. unfortunately the bike lanes are quite a mixed bag for pedestrians. its good to take out roads for bikes of course and its good to have an island to hang out on if necessary in the middle of the street, but you have to look back and forth so many times just to cross a street you can get whiplash! I especially love it when the bikers are going in the wrong direction!! I've started walking in what I consider the neutral zone, the area between the bike lanes and the cars (with the broad white diagonal lines). Obviously I don't think pedestrians are supposed to use that, but sometimes the sidewalk is too crowded, especially at night. I think people have more or less gotten used to them, but in the beginning I always used to think that a turning car was going to enter the bike lane as I crossed over to the island. That said, most bicyclists still seem to feel like they're exempt from traffic laws in New York. The arrogance! http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
April 28, 201213 yr In all fairness the two (caught by accident on my phone) had just crossed over to make a left turn....though there's a completely empty turn lane right there to do that. After all, I was about to head that way myself on a bike. I wouldn't have been sure what to do, had I not been interested in taking a photo. But compliance among cyclists is difficult here in Chicago. I make it a good habit to stop at all stop signs and lights. I'll admit to proceeding slow during the LPI sequence, which most cities don't have. The question has not yet been brought up whether a bicyclist proceeding during the sequence is legal or not, but there's probably some validity to that for safety reasons of the cyclist. But the cyclists that run red lights drive me nuts.
April 30, 201213 yr Most motorists and pedestrians also feel exempt from traffic laws in New York. ha touche! thats definately true. and we all have our very very good reasons lol!
May 2, 201213 yr A fantastic red barn on a family farm along Schmucker Road west of Kline, West Virginia, with Rocky Mountain's foliage acting as a fantastic backdrop on this late April afternoon.
May 3, 201213 yr The door! Love this. This house is extremely small, unlike brownstones. It reminds me more of German Village than New York. The NY Times did an article about it a few years ago, and I think at the time it was rented by a bunch of yuppies from Australia. The living room window is practically on the sidewalk and you can easily see inside. This block (between 3rd Ave & Irving Place), close to Gramercy Park, is gorgeous. I've seen author Richard Price (Clockers, etc), and Ric Ocasek & Paulina Porizkova (is she still a supermodel? lol) walking around there. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
May 4, 201213 yr Hmm..when I think of German Village front or side entrances to homes, I think of century-and-a-half old limestone stoops and not brick steps. That is incredibly well-done work though! I like it.
May 5, 201213 yr ^ Amazing. The color, the subject...everything The restored Halsted bridge onto Goose Island in Chicago. And an incoming storm. Taken with my iPhone.
May 8, 201213 yr ^ For some reason I imagine hearing howling in the background lol. This evening, views from Ping Tom Park at the 18th St. Viaduct Taken with my iPhone
May 8, 201213 yr Oooooo....nice! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 11, 201213 yr ^ Thanks! I thought of Cleveland as well when I took this with the bridges, industry and green banks along the river. Here's another phone shot from tonight. Kennedy freeway into the city as viewed from Ogden Ave. Love this spot
May 14, 201213 yr ^ i have never seen so many photo and movie or commercial shoots going on at the same time as i did this weekend in the meatpacking. it was crazy. seisiun music at the scratcher early yesterday evening and a curious little sign i saw bolted into the archive bldg in the west village :wtf:
May 30, 201213 yr An aerial view of old cars secured along a bank of the Cuyahoga River to prevent erosion at Jaite North of Peninsula, Ohio, near Cleveland, seen in September of 1975. The river passes through private property at this point. The river and valley are part of the newly created Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, a 20-mile stretch of largely undeveloped land between the metropolitan districts of Cleveland and Akron. (Frank J. Aleksandrowicz/NARA)
May 31, 201213 yr Mansfield, OH Reformatory https://www.instagram.com/cle_and_beyond/https://www.instagram.com/jbkaufer/
May 31, 201213 yr An aerial view of old cars secured along a bank of the Cuyahoga River to prevent erosion at Jaite North of Peninsula, Ohio, near Cleveland, seen in September of 1975. The river passes through private property at this point. The river and valley are part of the newly created Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area, a 20-mile stretch of largely undeveloped land between the metropolitan districts of Cleveland and Akron. (Frank J. Aleksandrowicz/NARA) Most bizarre thing I've seen or heard of in a long time.
May 31, 201213 yr For many years into the middle of the 20th century, it was common practice for farmers along streams and rivers to dump old cars, rolls of fence wire, and trailer-loads of tin cans, bottles, and other household trash into washouts to try to control erosion. Most of those now have been cleaned out, but when I was a kid those places were treasure troves of old bottles and other interesting artifacts. I even found a serviceable antique copper tea kettle in one of them.
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