16 Thursday Jul 2009
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Just a couple of snapshots taken of Spokane
Falls downtown during Richard's recent visit.
I hadn't been down there in years. And on
previous visits had never taken any pictures
for some reason.
The Falls, taken roughly North.
Spokane River exiting out, West.
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I'd love to have falls in my town! All we have is a narrow river. And a bay, and a beach of course.
I sure wish there was some body of water a little closer to me than an hour and a half drive. Oh, there's a few man made ponds here and there meandering around some ritzy developments but that's not the same and they are usually gated communities so you can't even get in. As hot as it gets here, I'd think there'd be a mosquito problem around them anyway.
Come to think of it, we do have several falls here – every night just outside of certain bars…
:lol:Two rivers converge about two miles north of where I live. One of the rivers is a great stream for tube floating–no falls, but a couple of areas of very mild and very shallow rapids. (Can't really call them "whitewater"–too mild and too shallow.) Both rivers are great for canoeing, fishin', and general all-around water recreation.Lots of fun.:smile:
I don't imagine there are too many cities that have a falls in their downtown area. Niagra, maybe. 😀
And skinny dipping? :pMy parking lot has a couple of large ponds. I don't know whether there's fish in them.
Ah, the Urban Landscape. 🙂
:lol:I would imagine there is a lot of skinny dippin', Edward. I'd do it myself if it was as rural as it was 35 years ago, when I….Nevermind.:D
@ Pam.Well I hate to say it, but that is why they call it a "desert". :p@ Star.I would never mind at all.
I think I'm in the wrong place.
Yeah, Canadian Island. It basically just feels like an extension of Riverfront Park when you are on the ground floor.It feels like a small town. Except for Spokane Valley, which is actually its own city now. And ever though it is called "valley" it is pretty flat, and goes on for miles and miles in a very desolate type way — stores, malls, restaurants, more stores, warehouses, factories. I hate the Valley.
What a coincidence! I started Google Earth today and went to spy over Spokane :whistle: There is something called Canadian Island (or something like that) near Spokane river falls, right? And to my surprise, Spokane is not a small city, at all :left:
Naaah…:D
Are those the buildings built in the 60s?They kinda look like buildings built in places like Chicago in the 60s that were called "the projects." Except yours look more stylish.
You hate it because it is boring? We have a part of Belgrade that was built in 60s, at least a part of it. We call it New Belgrade and it actually served as "bedroom" of Belgrade – due to fact that most of inhabitants worked on the other side of a river. But, today, business has moved there and more buildings has been built in a last few years. Not a place I would like to live :left:
Beautiful photos Edward. I love waterfalls. Dare, that area you show looks very industrial. And that row of buildings in the middle and top of the photo—-are those apartments? They look very strange, the way they are graduated in height.
We need a good Greek kid who can wield a sarissa. Or mabey a sharp pencil. :p
Thanks, they were okay considering I couldn't set shutter speed. Or use a polarizer. Or…The Avatar Kid Invasion. I like it!Join us or be conquered! :p
hahaha I was ash blond and a little devilish face, you all still look very much alike to your baby pictures… especially Allan! :heart:
a great post Eddie! I am so glad your did feel the "breeze of the falls upon you!" the pictures are fantastic! I am glad you took colored pictures this time around!PSit feels like all of you went back to Kindergarden! :lol:oy! the Avatar kid invasion!
:p I might, not sure yet …
Strange but Allan even seems to have the moustache as a kid. :pHe's gonna kill me. Put your kid photo up! We could really get this going!(BTW I'm not going to keep the kid avatar forever.)
That's why I love old homes built before the 50s. They have so much more character than the cracker boxes they build now. Ugh! And apartment complexes seem to be taking over the world.
I guess that would make you our Fearless Leader, Allan. 😆
About the avatar kid invasion…Did I start that? I am so sorry.
Don`t be 😀 We are all someone`s kids :yes:
Fine with me. :up:
Your mighty leader in shorts and sandals…
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I don't mind apartment buildings, but I will agree that most of the new ones have no soul (as you put it). And that goes for a lot of the condos and single family homes as well. Cheaply constructed is one thing. But why that means they have to be architecturally boring or vacuous or even hideous I don't know. The bauhaus designers seemed to set a path in terms of functionalism. But a log cabin is functional too, and yet most have a nice feel to them.
Yes, there are too many of us :left:
No, this is a bit newer part. Red ones are built during 70s, distand stairs-look ones are from 80s and lower left white ones are from late 90s. These are all appartments and this is what I dislike with that part of town – it has no soul.Linda, most of the appartments built after World War Two, in Eastern Europe, looks the same – if you find photos of East Berlin, newer (between 1950 and 1990) parts of Moscow, Budapest, Bucharest, Prague,….. they all look similar. Like these ones in New Belgrade :yuck:
Thanks for taking us down there, Edward. They were good to see – especially those basalt (we think) rocks. Lovely bridge too.
Richard, I'm not sure but I think "basalt-I-think" is an actual geological term. Or at least it was for us archaeologists. :p
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