Your city/hometown

[mmelindas]

Here are some photos we took of some of the places you all are posting about... Are any of these familiar to you? The restaurant and arboretum are in Milwaukee, the Rocket shot is in Alabama, the elevated highways are in Louisiana, and so forth.... The mountain that's snowy is out side and west of Denver....Enjoy!

[Deanna]

My hometown, Santa Rosa, CA, is probably best known as the home of Charles Schultz & Snoopy's Home Ice. Among cyclists, it's known as the place Levi Leipheimer currently calls home and the Amgen Tour of California finished it's first stage here to amazing crowds. Among gardeners, it's probably best known as the home of Luther Burbank. For those Hunter S. Thompson fans, he was treated at our Memorial Hospital when he got stomped by the Hell's Angels.

[mmelindas]

We were blessed to be able to travel from coast to coast, except for then NE states and I have photos of so many places to share...do any of you know these places or scenes?

Hey, why don't you all post photos of your favorite places? We'd love to see photos of your hometowns, too!

[Kimmyt]

mmelindas, I have a friend that lives in Asheville! I hear it is one of the greatest towns to live in if you're into the outdoors.

Mmmm....don't tease me with NC climbing!

[miffy'sFuji]

Here's another entry for San Francisco...

I was born and raised here as was my dad.

Some famous San Franciscans include Ansel Adams, Gracie Allen, Mel Blanc, Jack London, Robert Louis Stevenson, as well as Clint Eastwood, Bruce Lee and Joe DiMaggio.

We're famous for Lombard Street, which actually isn't the crookedest street in the city...Levi's jeans (the jeans were patented in 1873), Victorian houses, Golden gate Park (which is 147 acres larger than NYC's Central Park), the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz (the prison on an island in San Francisco Bay that once housed Al Capone).

The city is 7 miles x 7 miles, barred from expansion by water on three sides. Our population hovers around 750, 000. There are nearly 17,000 people per sq. mile here.

The United States claimed San Francisco in 1847 during the Mexican American War. Two years later, with the discovery of gold in the California foothills, the population exploded. Railroad barons made their home in San Francisco (Mark Hopkins, Leland Stanford)

In April 1945, the UN Charter was signed at the United Nations Plaza, Civic Center.

We're about to mark the 100th anniversary of the April 18, 1906 earthquake. The city's flag depicts the rising phoenix, and our motto is, "Oro en Paz, Fierro en Guerra" : "Gold in Peace, Iron in War".

[betagirl]

I currently live in Oak Park, IL. Home of Frank Lloyd Wright and birthplace of Ernest Hemingway. It's the first suburb due west of downtown Chicago. I lived here for a few years, then moved for a while. I just moved back and am so thrilled. This is my favorite part of the Chicago area. I grew up in Lisle, IL (another suburb further west) which isn't nearly as exciting.

Other Oak Park tid bits:

It was settled in 1833 and started out as 172 acres. Most of the homes here are from the turn of the 20th century.

Birthplace of Carl Rogers (Clinical Psychologist) and Betty White (from the Golden Girls)

Other famous Oak Park residents:
Ray Kroc (founder of McDonald's corporation)
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Kathy Griffin
Johnny Galecki
Carol Shields
Bob Newhart
The voice of Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta
Comic book artists Chris Ware and Gene Ha
Former "Frasier" star John Mahoney
Ben Weasel.

Notable former residents include:
Tarzan creator Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chemist Percy Julian
Poet Charles Simic
Ludacris

Will host some events of the 2006 gay games.

Known as "boys town west" in some circles

None of the entire geographic area of Oak Park is covered by water

Great town to bike in, in my opinion

[KnottedYet]

I live in Seattle. Yup, it rains here all the time. Sprained my ankle once from slipping on algae growing on a wet sidewalk. My old Subaru had moss growing on it, never came off even when I drove on the freeway.

The best time to buy a house here is Jan/Feb, when the new folks get sick of the rain (no sun since October) and sell fast so they can leave. I grew up here and actually like the rain and gray skies. To each her own...

Oh, and Seattle has one of the highest rates of skin cancer in the nation. Cuz we're all on the pale side regardless of ethnicity, then when it's sunny we all go outside and get sunburned. And we have the highest per capita ownership of sunglasses. (I bet you can figure that one out.)