thought it'd be cool if there was a thread where we show off our cities!

I just did a Sunday in Toronto Photo Album on Google+ I walked around the city Sunday morning and afternoon...a writing walk. Stopped at cafes and wrote and snapped pics along the way. Here's the link...so I don't blow up the thread with pics...

Trying this again. Had to figure out how to link the album directly:

https://plus.google.com/10631248679...493787-dfe8-32a4-a900-2b61655d3f7014a29434d02

What town is it, Ladyx?

Ladyxkaa said:

o.o...you are extremely talented with the camera.

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Aw, thanks. I just had my cell phone on me that day.

The horse statue pics are awesome. (-:

Lemme see.

Haggis said:

Lemme see.

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lol...I clicked the signature link and nosed around. (-:

Ladyxkaa said:

there are actually a lot of the horse pics, but I'll link the two most recent ones, haggis ^^

these are only a few blocks away from my house. if I were 'feeling my oats' I could walk there, even with my disability.

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Not what I expected at all. Those are pretty neat.

Ladyxkaa, those are pretty wonderful.

Oddly enough, I lived in Wichita Falls for about a year when I was maybe four or five. My sister was born there. My only memory of it was I had a little buddy in our neighborhood named JoeTom and we got into lots of mischief together.

Ladyxkaa said:

xD sorry. yeah we don't get to see any REAL horses. I'm a city girl. but there are a lot of horse statues around town, part of this special 'art project' the city commissioned a while back. I tried to get photos of all of them, but I'm missing like three.

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That's funny, because Toronto had the same thing a few years back with Moose. They were beautifully painted like your horses...same idea. Just all over the city where you would least expect to see a spectacularly painted moose. (-:

It's not exactly a work of art, but I took it myself. It's the only one where the horizon is kind of level.

Tall building (Prudential Tower observation deck). Don't worry, it's enclosed by glass. Completely safe, but ridiculously expensive.

A couple pics of my home town of Elyria, Ohio...
Old court house, long after cupola gone;

Old Presbyterian church who's bells rang the hour with Canterbury chimes;

East Falls of the Black River in Cascade park;

My dystopian sci-fi series is based on my little town, also the county seat.

That's just a couple. Elyria is an old town going back to Heman Ely in 1817. The west end of the strip burned down in the late 19th century. I spent most of my life there. So, like Steven King, I used it in my stories.
A couple more;
St Mary's church & school where wife & I met in 1st grade & later married;

Central park that was livery stable in 1800's (1)

(2), showing East Avenue from main drag as well, known in Victorian times as "cheap side";

Old, quaint, Mayberry RFD sort of town.

Ooh!

ETA Darn, some came up too big! I shall link to them

OK. Here is teh tribute to local boy Percy Shelley. It is called Universe Rising (it rises up and comes down with a gush of water) Often called Shelley's Fountain, or The Bollock



Here's a couple of churches -- the first is Doomsday and is supposed to be haunted, second is ST Mary's, dating from 1257 (and not the oldest either). Plague pits are in the graveyard supposedly



St Mary's

And here's Christ's Hospital, a private school set up many, many years ago to help poor boys get an education (it still does scholarships). IIRC it's mentioned in the Prince and the Pauper (the prince sets it up after his experiences)