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Our BetterMost Community => The Holiday Forum => Topic started by: Phillip Dampier on November 19, 2006, 04:13:03 pm
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Photos of outdoor images
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This thread looks so lonely with no posts on it so I thought I'd post something. :D One of my nicest memories is of a Christmas a few years ago that Bob and I spent in New York City, where we had gone to celebrate the birth of his first nephew.
So here you go Rockefeller Center at Christmas, in memory of that lovely time in our lives.
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This thread looks so lonely with no posts on it so I thought I'd post something. :D One of my nicest memories if a Christmas a few years ago that Bob and I spent in New York City, where we had gone to celebrate the birth of his first nephew.
So here you go Rockefeller Center at Christmas, in memory of that lovely time in our lives.
(http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Igor-Maloratsky/Christmas-Tree-at-Rockefeller-Center-Print-C12101361.jpeg)
Dot, I swear. One of these years I'm gonna see that tree "in person"! :D
Looks real purty with the snow and all.
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A tradition here in California is the Annual Boat Parade of Lights, many of the harbor towns have them, San Diego, Newport Beach, San Francisco...all complete with carolers, Santa and fireworks. It's a lovely way to spend a crisp cool Callifornia December evening. Bob and I go down to San Diego with a picnic, park along the embarcadeo a few hours before dark so we have prime viewing, when the parade starts we settle back with our hot chocolate and have a lovely few hours.
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We have a local artist here in Portland, Pandora LaCasse, who has been doing incredible light scuptures the past few years. Each year she adds to her collection and now they are all over the city. This is a picture I found online. I want to try to take a few of my own to post...the lights are really, really, cool.
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Wow, the posted pics are really impressive. I'm not much of a decorator, so all outside decoration we have is what you see here: coloured lights at the three front windows and a garland and a wreath at the door. That's all.
And if it weren't for the children, we wouldn'd have the coloured lights. I had sworn to myself that I would never, ever have these coloured things, I hated them. Too corny, too lurid, too much.
After some years of begging, I bought them for the kids. But now, after three or four years of getting used to them, I like them too ::).
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amazing what you see running around this time of year :laugh:
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(http://baycityforums.com/images/2007.jpg)
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That picture really sums things up well, doesn't it? Thanks for posting! :)
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Sorry.
I forgot to post the link to the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeiDGG6ZFA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeiDGG6ZFA)
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That's quite magical, John, the moment when the film pauses after Ennis's words and it pans up slowly to your own image in the sky. I actually hadn't heard that wonderful song by the Roches, I had to look it up:
Star of wonder in the heavens
Wonder what you want of me
Should I follow you tonight?
Star of wonder, star of wonder
I am just a lonely shepherd
Watching from a distant hill
Why do you appear to me?
Star of wonder, star of wonder
If you will
In the morning, they'll come looking
For the shepherd on the hill
What would make her leave her flock
For surely she must love them still
Star of wonder in the heavens
Are you just a shining star or
Should I follow you tonight?
Star of wonder, star of wonder
Shining bright
—Terre Roche, ©1991
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Sorry.
I forgot to post the link to the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeiDGG6ZFA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAeiDGG6ZFA)
Wow, John, - I LOVE this. The Roches have been my darlings for 25 years, but I hadn't heard this. Thank you so much.
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What, more Christmas pictures??? The first week of January??? How terribly passe - wasn't that the holiday before last?
However, I never got a chance to get over to the local byword of electrical excess, right here in Jamaica Plain, till this evening when my neighbor asked if I wanted to join her for a little picture taking. And in genteelly retro Boston, the cars were still pulling up nonstop as if at Old Faithful, so much so that when I took pictures from across the street I had next to no time to click between the departures and arrivals.
This is the house with near-daily visits from the power company, to install higher capacity transformers and fix blown switches in the local supply.
The difference from most similar gaudy displays is that this house is actually quite picturesque on its own, with its rustic fieldstone work, Tudor gables and tower, so it stands up to the lights, becomes a gingerbread house as its right and patrimony.
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Wow, that's a stunner! 8)
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:D :D :D Amazing - I love it!!! Thanks for sharin', Andrew!!
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I guess this is the first one for 2007!
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The "Plaza Lights" at Country Club Plaza (a 1920s-era shopping district) has been a Thanksgiving tradition in Kansas City for several decades.