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[grace86]

August must have been a nice time to be out here. Yes, I'm a student here in Chicago, though I still spend most of the summer back in California. I live down south in the Hyde Park neighborhood, not terribly far from the Museum of Science and Industry. I've been walking by there sometimes when it looks just like that in the light. You captured it well. I know the spot where you took that Sears Tower shot too. I really like that one. It looks like your pic. of the lake is facing south. Did you by chance walk out to the point near the Museum of Science and Industry? There's a great view northward of the city skyline from there.

Didn't know you were a native Californian either. Cool. I went through Hyde Park going to the Science museum - it is very beautiful there. I think it was about 4 p.m. when I took the picture in front of the museum - closing time I think. Yes I did walk straight from the museum, under the freeway bridge and to the lake.

I wasn't used to seeing a lake like that, I am used to Newport and Huntington Beach here in CA. So it was different seeing the sediments in the water.

I have more pictures from Chicago I'll post tomorrow. We also had the opportunity to head out to the Field Museum for the King Tut exhibit. No pics of Tut though

[grace86]

grace,

the light almost makes the building look divine.

Thanks, it was quite by accident that the light came out that way (ssshh), came out wonderful though.

[Petrarch's Love]

I wasn't used to seeing a lake like that, I am used to Newport and Huntington Beach here in CA. So it was different seeing the sediments in the water.

Grace--are you living in either Newport or Huntington? H.B.'s my home town. Small world. It was strange for me when I first moved here because the Lake is so big like the ocean but still so different. The lake doesn't have the waves, or that nice salty scent, and of course you don't usually find ice floating around off the California coast.

I have more pictures from Chicago I'll post tomorrow. We also had the opportunity to head out to the Field Museum for the King Tut exhibit. No pics of Tut though

Sounds like fun. I caught the Tut exhibit in L.A., so I didn't see it at the Field. It was a nice exhibit.

[bluevictim]

I wasn't used to seeing a lake like that, I am used to Newport and Huntington Beach here in CA. So it was different seeing the sediments in the water.

Grace--are you living in either Newport or Huntington? H.B.'s my home town.

No kidding?! I'm from HB too. Small world indeed.

[Petrarch's Love]

No kidding?! I'm from HB too. Small world indeed.

Wow! Two people here from H.B. would be coincidence, but three? That's practically enough for an H.B. lit. net. club. Are you still there Blue Victim, or just from there?

[grace86]

I don't live in Huntington or Newport, actually about half an hour east of Newport, near Ontario.

Wow, so many California natives. That is so neat.

Someone once told me that you can tell if a person is from California based on the fact that if you ask them how far something is, they answer in how much time it takes to get there....like "half an hour east of Newport" for example.

I'm glad I am not the only CA native here.

Yeah, Petrarch, I know exactly how you felt when you saw the lake.

[bluevictim]

Wow! Two people here from H.B. would be coincidence, but three? That's practically enough for an H.B. lit. net. club. Are you still there Blue Victim, or just from there?

I'm just from there; I don't live in HB anymore. I still have family and friends there, though, so I visit four or five times a year. Imagine that! Maybe there was a time when we were next to each other sitting in traffic on the 405.

Someone once told me that you can tell if a person is from California based on the fact that if you ask them how far something is, they answer in how much time it takes to get there....like "half an hour east of Newport" for example.

There's another test that's even more specific: you can tell if a person is from Southern California if he/she uses the definite article for freeway/highway numbers.
"Take 10 and exit Main St." -- not from Southern California
"Take the 10 and exit Main St." -- Southern Californian

[Petrarch's Love]

'm just from there; I don't live in HB anymore. I still have family and friends there, though, so I visit four or five times a year. Imagine that! Maybe there was a time when we were next to each other sitting in traffic on the 405.

A distinct possibility. Or, even more likely given that we're both on this forum, we may have been on opposite sides of a bookshelf at the Central Library.

Someone once told me that you can tell if a person is from California based on the fact that if you ask them how far something is, they answer in how much time it takes to get there....like "half an hour east of Newport" for example.

There's another test that's even more specific: you can tell if a person is from Southern California if he/she uses the definite article for freeway/highway numbers.
"Take 10 and exit Main St." -- not from Southern California
"Take the 10 and exit Main St." -- Southern Californian

I never noticed that. I'll have to listen carefully to what my Chicago friends say. Maybe they're really confused when I tell them I live about a half hour from there on the 90.

[Janine]

Didn't know you were a native Californian either. Cool. I went through Hyde Park going to the Science museum - it is very beautiful there. I think it was about 4 p.m. when I took the picture in front of the museum - closing time I think. Yes I did walk straight from the museum, under the freeway bridge and to the lake.

I wasn't used to seeing a lake like that, I am used to Newport and Huntington Beach here in CA. So it was different seeing the sediments in the water.

I have more pictures from Chicago I'll post tomorrow. We also had the opportunity to head out to the Field Museum for the King Tut exhibit. No pics of Tut though

Grace, How was the King Tut show? I am going to get tickets for it soon. It will be in Philadelphia this spring. I think actually it starts around Feb. I can't wait to see it. What... no photos of Tut, himself? Ah....

[Janine]

That is so sweet.

Kathycf, I love your photographs of the tombstones. Gorgeous stuff! I like the flower one, too!
I want to post some photos, but I can't recall my passwork in "Photobucket", nor it seems my domain name. I thought I wrote it down and now I can't find it. What now? Mad at myself for being so thoughless.

[ClaesGefvenberg]

but I can't recall my passwork in "Photobucket", nor it seems my domain name. I thought I wrote it down and now I can't find it. What now?:

You still have a good chance. Can you remember how you named the pictures? Just one of them will do: Then use the pictures search in Google. Once you have found it you can backtrack to your page by closing the frame (top right corner) That way you should be able to retrieve your domain name and then be able to get a new password from the bucket.

Good luck...

/Claes

[Janine]

You still have a good chance. Can you remember how you named the pictures? Just one of them will do: Then use the pictures search in Google. Once you have found it you can backtrack to your page by closing the frame (top right corner) That way you should be able to retrieve your domain name and then be able to get a new password from the bucket.

Good luck...

/Claes

Claes, You are a life-saver! Great idea. I do know the names of them. One is posted in the forum. Wow, I had not thought of that way into the site. Thanks so much.....Janine

[miss tenderness]

here's another ordinary one

[ClaesGefvenberg]

here's another ordinary one

Ooooo. Nice....

/Claes

[kathycf]

here's another ordinary one

If by ordinary, you mean very striking, then I suppose I agree with you. Nice pic, miss T.