What's It Like Where You Live? (Revisited)

[ladder13]

One can dream, can't they?

 

[jkc]

I live in a condo in a fairly intensively developed urban area, on the fringe of the core of the original Mormon settlement of Mesa, AZ , the historical remnants of which are scanty. All the amenities of a large city are close at hand. Here at about 1,100 feet above sea level, the native vegetation is mostly sparse saguaro, prickly pear, barrel, cholla, and other cacti, low brushy plants like brittlebush, creosote, jojoba, etc., and where there's enough groundwater, trees such as mesquite, paloverde, and ironwood. It's mostly flat and open --- a large valley, but studded and ringed by mountains and buttes. But, within less than three hours drive, I can be in another world entirely --- subalpine conifer forests near Flagstaff (with a ski area), open, treeless sagebrush flats which look a lot like Iggy's photo, the largest contiguous stand of Ponderosa pine in the world, numerous large lakes, a Wild and Scenic designated wilderness canoe stream, lots of Forest Service and BLM land for recreation. Mountains all around. A little longer than an hour drive thru jaw-dropping scenery on the Apache Trail to Apache Lake, where I keep a small boat to transport my camp gear to isolated campsites, far from the madding crowd. One hour to excellent bear and lion habitat. It's all good!

 

[feralmerril]

Ladder 13, I can take you to the spots where you snapped those pictures in the tetons and yellowstone. I worked for the NPS there in 1961. That church is the "church of the transfiguration" at moose wyoming. I have been in it, looked the same back then. Our camp was at beaver creek, two miles north. The lakes are yellowstone and jackson lakes. I was there for 6 great months.

It just dawned on me that I lived and worked there 50 years ago this comeing may! I am getting old! I worked the summer before in yosemite for 6 months too.

 

[ladder13]

Ladder 13, I can take you to the spots where you snapped those pictures in the tetons and yellowstone. I worked for the NPS there in 1961. That church is the "church of the transfiguration" at moose wyoming. I have been in it, looked the same back then. Our camp was at beaver creek, two miles north. The lakes are yellowstone and jackson lakes. I was there for 6 great months.

Merril, you know your Parks I was gonna post some of Bryce, but............you've done so already.
Love NW Wyoming.

 

[CH47gunner]

Ladder 13, I can take you to the spots where you snapped those pictures in the tetons and yellowstone. I worked for the NPS there in 1961. That church is the "church of the transfiguration" at moose wyoming. I have been in it, looked the same back then. Our camp was at beaver creek, two miles north. The lakes are yellowstone and jackson lakes. I was there for 6 great months.

It just dawned on me that I lived and worked there 50 years ago this comeing may! I am getting old! I worked the summer before in yosemite for 6 months too.

Were you there for the earthquake? Lost a campground & some campers if I remember correctly. Maybe '62 tho. I was a 10 yo kid in Glasgow, Montana & my dad woke us up so we could feel it.

Bruce

 

[feralmerril]

I worked with several old timers there. One, a old cowboy dewey van winkle had been sheriff of teton county way back. He was close to 70 years old in 1961 when I was there. He told me he punched cattle there before there were roads there! He must have been talking 1910 or so! Another guy that I worked with said he had been a caretaker for wallace berrys place on jackson lake. They also filmed shane nearby. I went and seen the movie shane with a girl that was a small girl extra in the movie at jackson. In the movie she was about 7 years old. I knew her when she was about 17
There was a store in jackson that had deweys colt saa and rig on display. He was a tough old timer and I worked with him for awhile.
Later I was a studio guard for universal studios and met a old cowboy actor/producer who`s name I no longer remember. The guy handeled horses for the studio. He told me he was a cowboy with dewey and I think he also said they rodeo`ed together.
Edit: No, I wasnt there for the earthquake. That was the fall of 1959, about a year and half before I was there.
I see you put up a picture of downtown jackson. I frequented the cowboy bar in those days. They used to have black jack tables. There was a pretty good tip system. It would be wide open for awhile and everything hid the next night. I got into a fracus in that area. They used to chase clover the killer around the town square a couple times a day and mock hang him for holding up the stagecoach. They would rope the square off and stop traffic for the show. I watched it a few times, then it got "usual". I came out of one of those establishments one day and a nice fight was going on. 4 guys were in a knockdown drag out. Maybe 500 tourists watching. At first I thought it was a new act and these boys are pretty good! Then I seen it was the real deal. One guy was laid out and a girl asked me to help her put him in a car. He was knocked cold. I picked him up over my shoulder and he come to, bit my ear and started to punch me around my head. He thought I was the guy he had been fighting! I got him in the car and walked back to watch the other two. I eventualy got to know all four partys. Two were rodeo riders, the other two, one turned out to be a marine deserter, and the other, a local indian. I never seen a man take a worse beating. The indian was drunk crawling on his knees, the cowboy was so used up he couldnt knock him out, and was useing his boots on him. I finaly held the indian down and told the cowboy to walk off. Not one person out of hundreds of men there voulenteered to give me a hand. It was mass shock!
It did make me popular with some of the local business owners. Later the owner of the cowboy bar came up to me and asked me if my buddys (about 5 or 6 of my co workers) were at least as old as me. The funny thing was, I was the youngest of the bunch! That was early into my job and it gave us a place to drink and not get carded rest of our season! That was a good year!

 

[Davwingman]

Looked like this in January. Pretty much the same today, only a bit warmer.

 

[luangtom]

Won't bother posting pix of where we live. Too much urban-sprawl coming to what was once a nice rural-area. Cookie-cutter houses in supposedly safe-gate communities where home-owner-associations rule. If the lottery ever comes my way, we are getting outta here.........

Atlanta may be forty-miles away, but it is now spreading itself in all directions, like an amoeba........or a cancer........

 

[redlevel]

All these pictures were made on the farm I was born on except the bird-hunting picture. It was made on the farm that my wife's family has owned for over 100 years.

We have roots here.

About 100 miles due South of Atlanta.

 

[Wingmaster]

I live about half way between the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Great hunting and fishing in the Big Horns. My other hobby is riding motorcycles. I cant think of a better place than the Black Hills to do that.
Wing master

 

[doublesharp]

Noisy and dirty. I live across the street from the largest inland shipyard in the USA. Always something to see. That's downtown Louisville in this picture, which was taken from my front yard.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

I'd say those fine yellow peaches need that protection, Redlevel. Do you ship?


Bullseye

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I'd say those fine yellow peaches need that protection, Redlevel. Do you ship?


Bullseye

I just checked his ad on Fruit Broker. Says "no shipping to Ca."

These are fantastic responses everyone. I find the wide open spaces of Iggy's Wyoming as stunning as those beautiful mountains you folks in the south have pictured here. And everything else inbetween. Keep 'em coming.

 

[rromeo]

I brought this up a long time ago and thought I'd do it again. I'm intrigued by a bunch of people with a common interest who are from such diverse corners of the country, and in some cases other countries. I live in the heart of the gold rush country here in California. The snow capped Sierras can be seen off in the distance.
What's it like where you live? What interesting, historical, or just plain beautiful stuff do you see every day, and maybe take for granted sometimes, that others would think is cool?

We were once neighbors. Last year, I drove 3,000 miles, and once again I'm in the state capital, and an hour or so drive from the bay.

I live 15 minutes from a city, but there are tall trees all around, and I can walk out my back door for nearly a mile before I come upon anything man made.
If I dig in my yard, I might find some remnants of a war that happened 150 years ago. Several forts were in my area, and the battle for Richmond came right through my neighborhood.

 

[sipowicz]

I guess you could say I live in a gorgeous asylum that the inmates are running.

 

[gregintenn]

This is where the Toccoa becomes the Ocoee River at the GA/TN border between McCaysville, GA and Copperhill, TN. Confused? I grew up here.
When we were kids, we used to climb up on the top girder and walk across this bridge. I don't remember falling off, hmmmm.....
This used to be one of the most polluted places in the US, due to the sulphuric acid plant and copper mines just downstream from here. All this went out of business in the mid '80's. Its now a mecca for whitewater sports, fishing, hunting, and just about anything outdoors.

I've rafted the Ocoee. It's quite an experience if any of you ever get the chance.

 

[truckemup97]

One can dream, can't they?

Hey, isn't that the Yonkers Yacht Club and Marina? And the Paramus mountains in the distance?

 

[ChattanoogaPhil]

I live on the outskirts of Chattanooga. Minutes away from the Chattanooga Rifle Club and Harrison Marina. Parks everywhere and surrounded by some of the best motorcycling in the world. I live atop a hill higher than other homes for miles... Here is what I see throughout the year from my back deck... My small slice of paradise... and tactical too.



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[Wyo]

These are fantastic responses everyone. I find the wide open spaces of Iggy's Wyoming as stunning as those beautiful mountains you folks in the south have pictured here. And everything else inbetween. Keep 'em coming.

That doggone Iggy isn't being entirely forthcoming here. That country he was standing in when he took that picture is flat all right, but there are some hills in the vicinity too. This here picture is taken from the top of a little bump about 30 miles away from where Iggy took his. One thing we don't lack for around here is variety!

 

[ladder13]

Hey, isn't that the Yonkers Yacht Club and Marina? And the Paramus mountains in the distance?

You sure DO know alot about NY