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Aimless:
So, where do you live, and what does it look like right now?

Sun's finally found its way back to stockholm, and the city's as pretty as it's ever been... I've been roaming around taking pics with my silly phone so as to give some of my friends abroad an idea of how lovely this city is, in the summer: http://outdoors.webshots.com/album/564550411KNHenF

I've mostly been hanging out in central sthlm, so obviously these aren't representative of the whole city, and there're a lot more lovely things to be found... but these pics feature some of my favourite summer hangouts :)

My favourite spot for reading:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2892901720067170648uYPolQ

Great place right smack in the middle of town, but on a little island... the boat is part of a hostel, so there're a few friendly tourists around at all times :) you can sit on the warm stone steps and read until the sun sets late at night (steps face westish, of course).

Perhaps my favourite view:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2563672620067170648ozsZcG

It's from a little road on the side of a mountain. I discovered it recently, and I think it's one of the sweetest places in town if you want to do cheesy things like sit and cuddle and watch the sun set. It's like the road was just made for romantic things like that... with nice wooden benches, flowers and trees everywhere, etc.

My hood (sorta):

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2181421770067170648oyPfFG

Music:

http://www.box.net/shared/lxonlakg0g

http://www.box.net/shared/p2euxqqw48

It's only recently that I've started exploring what's been my home town for the past 16 years, and it's been surprising to find so many totally sweet spots in a city that so often feels so crowded and stressful. Nice parks, pretty streets, gorgeous cafés, hangouts by the water that aren't packed full of German tourists (or too many other Stockholmers). They've always been there, I just haven't taken the time to find them... wish I had, 'cause it's useful as hell to know of nice places to go that not too many other people know/care about. This project will probably keep me busy for a few decades though... you know how those little hideouts never stay hidden for very long!

imapiratearg:
I envy you.  I'll get pictures up when I get home.

Liz:
My town isn't nearly that exciting. I come from Battle Lake, Minnesota and there is really nothing special about it. We have a lake, a school that houses preschool through 12th grade, a quaint little downtown area, and a statue of a giant Native American that is pretty much horrible.

During the winter it is all kinds of quiet. During the summer the tourists invade the place and it is ridiculously annoying. That is pretty much all.

yelley:
i live in salinas, california. the weather is very mild here... it has been in the 70s and sunny for weeks. unlike other parts of california, it is not on fire right now. it looks mostly like this.

they grow a lot of vegetables here. mostly lettuce.
they like to put up large wooden cutouts of people and their lettuce.

most people that live around here are hispanic and work in the produce industry. i also work in the produce industry, in a microbiology testing laboratory. this is francisco, he collects samples of vegetables for me to test for e. coli and salmonella.

also john steinbeck lived here and wrote books about salinas and monterey.

there is a cute downtown area called oldtown salinas.

and there is a newer uptown area that has all your standard big box chain stores.


i live in an apartment. it looks like this.

here is how the inside is.


i live near the pacific ocean. i go and visit it sometimes. my favorite place to visit it is asilomar state beach.

i like to go there because of the tide pools. oooohhh hermit crabs.


this is where i go yarn shopping.

imapiratearg:
I'm from the small, northeast town of Barre, Vermont.  Known to the rest of the state as "sketchy Barre" due to the fact that it is a hovel for drugs and crime.  It looks kind of pretty, I guess.  The statue there is a statue of the writer Robert Frost, I believe.

Montpelier - the Capital - on the other hand,is where I was born and raised for the first seven years of my life and I consider it my hometown.  It looks sort of like this.  It's a quaint little town.  Do a GIS for it and you'll get at least several thousand images of the Capital Building.

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