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Post by Dwazee on May 1, 2008 23:04:53 GMT -5
my bf is in manchester on a research project, so i made it an excuse to go back and visit my old uni friends (near london), as well as see manchester. it was lovely of course--soooo much fun. and thannnnnk you about the peectures  my new nikon certainly has some more options than what i was shooting before... im going to boston for school this fall...got into the school of the museum of fine arts. its going to be quite an adjustment from norman, oklahoma. eek. the pictures of oregon made me want to go back to seattle (yes, a different state but still). except. every art major i knew here went to portland. no good. |
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Post by strat-0 on May 3, 2008 3:45:25 GMT -5
Great pics, samps. Also yours, Dwaz. This is real life.
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Post by samplestiltskin on May 4, 2008 22:14:12 GMT -5
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Post by skovrecky on May 9, 2008 10:30:11 GMT -5
I want pics, samps, of the No Fun Fest when you get around to it.
I'm swear I'm going next year, goddammit.
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Post by Thorngrub on May 9, 2008 10:42:03 GMT -5
hey samps thems a buncha sweet pics ya took !
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Post by strat-0 on May 10, 2008 21:10:36 GMT -5
Looks kinda wet...
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Post by rocknroller on May 12, 2008 7:46:05 GMT -5
Here is a pic' of my mom's house in Brockton Mass. Brockton is about 20 miles outside Boston. It's a 100 year old house. Has 4 bedrooms and one freakin' bathroom. The bathrooms downstairs ofcourse too. The pink front door gas to go!  |
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Post by rocknroller on May 12, 2008 9:11:36 GMT -5
Pic of my Mom Julie and her husband Dave. Mom's 64 and has a BSN and nurses at Quincy hospital in Massachusetts. Dave's 50 and has a MSW and works for Blue Cross/Blue Shield in Quincy. I took this picture at the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in Connecticut where there is a casino. I won 50 bucks on the slots.  |
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Post by strat-0 on Jun 5, 2008 3:17:33 GMT -5
Your mom and stepdad look like great peeps, Pat! Nice house, too!
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Post by Ayinger on Jun 10, 2008 18:38:12 GMT -5
Having just found out that Pat's parents & grandparents lived in my hometown of Marion and that we both have a connection in ways to the Quakers in that area, I just uploaded this pic of the home I lived in back in my childhood: This is Shugart Place....built by a Quaker family just before the Civil War. They even made the bricks right there on the grounds. The home was a station on the Underground Railroad and I've found several mentions of it in county history books. A state highway ran by the property and on the other side of it was an old Friend's cemetary that included a number of the Shugart family, even the builders of the home. What the photo doesn't show is that our land was right next to the Marion airport, who in 1973 had the urge to expand. They ended up buying our property out and shortly thereafter tore down the house (the towering pines went later as well). 35 years later and they have yet to do a damn thing with the land..... |
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 10, 2008 22:51:21 GMT -5
and a building that big there, was made of brick? whoa.
that looks more like it was a friggin' plantation.
meaning that musta been a gorgeous house.
with history.....
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Post by Ayinger on Nov 21, 2008 15:50:32 GMT -5
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Post by Ayinger on Nov 21, 2008 15:56:06 GMT -5
okay, I went beyond the edge of the page but felt y'all need to see EVERY leaf that I've been dealing with on the job the past 6 weeks.... Now mind you the pic only shows 1/4 of the driveway going up to the good doctor's house....and the drive is by FAR the easiest part! Cleaning out all the beds, patios, entries, dog pen, garages and shit around the house (& pool
house) not to mention the rest of the grounds is about an 8-hour job. NIce though to be surrounded by all the wooded area as we can dump/blast all the shit into there and not have to tarp & haul back to the shop.
The machine my partner Jose is pushing isn't a mower but a 10hp leaf blower which would knock an 8-year-old kid on his ass.
The following week we did this property in a steady rain, which was nice.... Would have traded that though for what I put up with there yesterday: temps in the lower 30's + a steady wind of 20mph, gusting to 30. AND I had to mow the bitch which takes 90 minutes on the Z-trak. Want to talk cold? Four layers on top, two on bottom, thermals, plus two pairs of gloves. My fingers were still so numb afterwards that my skin cracked open a quarter
of an inch under one fingertip.
ahhh,,,,to think I could still be working an indoor job and not breathing in all this Life !
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 21, 2008 16:52:02 GMT -5
oh, mother nature!
a mutha, fer real.
we spent 4-5 hours last sunday bagging leaves at our house (after climbing up on the roof with the electric blower and blowing out the gutters) 6 very stomped down bags...and this was our second run through.
normally my nephew mulches 'em up on the spot with the mower, but there was just way too much. and he wasn't gonna make it cause he was playing at a volleyball tournament.
and of course our kid is dismantling all the piles we're building up, the little shit...but hey...
i love the trees too and after we lost 3 trees right after getting the house (2 diseased blue spruces and an ash leaning over the driveway that had a crack about 10 feet up thetrunk that was getting bigger) and there's another ash (of four-in-a-row along the side of the yard) that hd the shit beat out of it during a windstorm at the start of the summer...so we're replanting: 2 chery trees (flowering and non), a chestnut sapling we found growing next to our neighbor's garage, 2 more evergreens at the back of the property (to the 4 already there)which hide powerlines sorta, and two that were subsidied by he town, a linden and a white oak....but man the effing leaves are something else!
the maples are the worst actually and we've got only 2 but there's more around us that shit in the spring with the lil fucking helicopters (sprouting all over the place) and then now with their literal ton of leaves...
and no, there's no woods around us to dump this stuff, though some of it has gone under those backlot evergreens in the past.
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Post by RocDoc on Nov 21, 2008 16:53:08 GMT -5
erm, the images ain't there brother don.
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my new nikon certainly has some more options than what i was shooting before...
