Member Photos

[Napoléon]

Hey, I'm not creepy. I is charming.

That what your chav of a mother tells you?

[Ace Otana]

That what your chav of a mother tells you?

No, teachers and babysitters. They likes me.

[salty]

So many people...maybe I'll post mine later.

[thesummerqueen]

I thought I'd share a bit of my pretty city with you.

Charlotte is a clean and rather green city, though some areas look very "tired". I mean to head to Queens Rd and a couple of the other "richy-rich" areas to take more pictures, perhaps next weekend, to show you the old homes and the way the very old trees have grown up to form stately living arches over the streets.

The thing I love about living down here are the number of fountains everywhere. They're almost necessary, considering how hot it gets, and on breezy days the spray gets blown everywhere. They are almost always "interactive" - you're able to go right up to the water, even put your feet in it, and some are made so children can run around in them while their parents rest. Others, like the one below, are made so you have to walk over little stone or concrete pathways within the water to get to seating areas. And unlike the small city I grew up in, which isn't far from the nation's capital and not exactly poor, the landscaping isn't all evergreen and things you can leave for months with no care - there are flowers absolutely everywhere. Even in the poorer sections, where the hippies or old timers let them riot out of hanging baskets and planters.





One of my favorite churches, of which we have many (and most are quite beautiful). This would have been a better picture if I weren't driving while I took it.


The main library has columns all down one side with these quotes attached to them:


There are areas to play chess around this one. One of the guys kindly offered to take my photo in the fountain, but I declined.






One of my favorite buildings. There was no way to properly photograph it without a better camera.


Clocktower, which has another fountain at its base as well.

[The Grand Nudger]

I want to set up a yurt on the grounds of that structure and live there. It's gorgeous. Pretty town Summer.







That's all I've got..lol.

(Our glass obelisk is pretty epic in the right light though, especially coming from the north as it's all you can see rising over the trees)

[frankiej]

Hmm, I must say, it seems that you live in a lovely place.

[thesummerqueen]

Give me half a sec, I'll post the place the kids love to play at.

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We have a small area called "The Green" that's surrounded by a small library outpost, one of the best pizza joints in the city, and several "organic" type eateries. There are many little pathways interwoven so it has little seating nooks and sunny resting areas. It's a good place at night for romantic snogging, and during the day it's entirely family friendly.

All of the retaining walls have leaves molded onto them:


Another of the interactive fountains. Water springs up from the floor and from the mouths of the fishes.


Around the edge of the fountain are interwoven quotes.




The bee pavers that dot all of the walkways.

[Epimethean]

Very pretty place, summer.

[The Grand Nudger]

This is bullshit, people are living there and I'm stuck in this squalid little hellhole where the power was out for eight(8) hours last night, but only on my block.

[thesummerqueen]

Oh...one of these days I should take pictures of Concord. It's beautiful as well, but a little more humble, and power goes out all the time because City of Concord likes to do utility work at night and fuck up entire sections of the city with one mis-drill.