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Frightening photos from my home town.
Here is a blog of some suicide girl from my home town. When I look at the photos my soul goes to heel :shock: :
http://cyber-scully.livejournal.com/151690.html
When I was a kid, me and my friends were frequently playing next to these towers. I remember myself wanted to climb it, and one time almost grabbed with my bare hands over the lower step of the staircase. But one of my friends shouted: "wait" and touch the step with one finger. And immediately received a burn injury. Since then, we have avoided these towers. But, telling the truth, it was a long time ago and they have worked then :) .
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I noticed the gloves on the hands of one of the climbers. They must have the резиновые защитные пимпочки on the down side of it.
If I lived in such a dull quarter, I would definely climb this mast to see anything more attractive than just these alike block houses. :oops:
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Originally Posted by Leof
I noticed the gloves on the hands of one of the climbers. They must have the резиновые защитные пимпочки on the down side of it.
If I lived in such a dull quarter, I would definely climb this mast to see anything more attractive than just these alike block houses. :oops:
Раньше эти мачты использовались для ретрансляции радиосигнала из Москвы на восточную часть России, но, насколько я знаю, они уже лет 10 как законсервированы. Теперь всё через спутники идёт. А насчёт мрачности, то с земли всё не так страшно :wink: :
http://www.rjx.ru/photo/
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А насчёт мрачности, то с земли всё не так страшно :wink: :
Ну, на самом-то деле, ровно пол города Москвы выглядит именно так, как эта окраина Электростали. Московские окраины ничем не лучше.
Мы с мамой для обзора используем местную высоту - высоченное здание НИИ им. Склифосовского, и, если повезёт, его крышу. Самое замечательное было на 60-тилетие Победы. Салюты над городом.
Если посмотреть на Москву в сторону Кремля и Замоскворечья - здорово: Кремль вдали, все высотки, церковки, всё узнаёшь. Если в обратную сторону - Останкино, ВДНХ, Лосиный Остров, то город выглядит ужасно. Жуткое количество типовых многоэтажек, телебашня и леса лосиноостровского заповедника прямо от Сокольников.
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Basil,
Thank you for posting these photos and showing me a window of your world. It puts into sharp contrast the differences between your childhood and mine! Do you know even when I am driving in a car, if power lines have fallen and I am driving under them, I still duck my head! Silly I know, since I am IN A CAR!!! :fool"
I'm glad your friend had enough sense to save your life that day. :angel:
I grew up on a former tobacco plantation and horse stud farm, the former Belair Mansion and Belair Stables in Bowie, Maryland. There used to be a horse race track in Bowie as well, driving distance from my house, but it close in 1985. This town was so small that we had one movie theater (that I could walk to) and it went out of business! Even my old elementary and junior high schools have long since closed as there were not enough children in the town to keep them open. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowie,_Maryland
A sleeply little town where I could walk to almost anywhere I needed to be and I had to be home when the street lights came on.
The Mansion was built in 1745 and the Belair Stables became very well known in the horse racing circles in the 1930 with Triple Crown winners Gallant Fox, Omaha and then in 1955, Nashua.
My house was one of 7 on our street and 5 of the houses, including mine, had backyards actually adjacent to the grass playing area for a church, so all of the kids on our street played there, unless the Pastor got mad at us. But the best thing about where I lived was Belair Drive. This tree lined road (without the pavement) was what one would use back in the "old times" to make their way to the enterance of the Belair Mansion
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...vesnow-1-1.jpg
I would walk down this tree lined street, and climb the trees and hang out in them and also at the end of Belair Drive was my favorite place in the world, the pool!
Belair Bath and Tennis is on the left hand side as soon as you come out of the trees and was my home away from home every summer. From the time I would wake up in the morning until I went to sleep at night, I was at this pool!
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...sian/BBT-1.jpg
Directly across from the pool and on the right hand side as you come out of the trees are the now vacant old Belair Stables
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...airstables.gif
Directly behind the pool is the old Belair Mansion. I remember as a young child being in there for a function and having to use the bathroom. It was up on the second floor. Remember this is a VERY old building, well the lock got stuck and therefore, I was locked inside. Since everyone else was downstairs and it was very noisy, no one could hear my cries for help! I avoided the mansion for many years after that!
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...airMansion.jpg
I do remember this prank that some kids pulled one Halloween, someone hung from one of the tree branches about half way down the tree lined Belair Drive a stuffed pair of pants and shirt and made it look like person was hanging there in the middle of the road… scared the hebejeebies out of the drivers as they came driving through the road!
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BappaBa,
So this is these were taken from the window of your apartment? If so, you must live up on a very high floor. You have a nice view of the park below! If you have children, it must be nice for them to be able to play right outside and for you to be able to keep a bird's eye view on them!
I have always noticed how a city planners make sidewalks around a park and people will make their own paths right through the park, the shortest distance thing. You would think that planners would finally begin to build this into their plans.
If Basil would not mind people adding to his thread (or we could start a new one) ... I would very much like to see other people's hometowns and/or current views of where they live.
This is the house that I live in now. We bought it back in 1992 and it was about 1/2 of the size that it is now. We added onto the back of the house almost doubling it in size (if you see the powerline running down the side of the house between the two picture windows, that is the dividing line between the old house and the new house). I know that you will laugh, but this is actually a VERY small house by American standards. We also added the driveway and the fence was built by my husband. BTW, the little thing in the window by the tree next to the front door, is a "cat house" so that our two cats can go in and out of the house when ever they want and they can also sit in it if they want to.
Front of house
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...an/MyHouse.jpg
View from the house
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...ideofhouse.jpg
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I know that you will laugh, but this is actually a VERY small house by American standards.
I am sorry, rockzmom, but when I saw the picture, my first thought was exactly that the house is very small... :oops: and not only by American standards. :oops:
Well, yes, we Russians often live in city apartments which are even smaller than this house, but as a separate house... I think it doesn't look as a big one by Russian standards, either.
About trimmings (?? not sure if it's the right word) of the house... Is it (aluminum) siding? It's not very popular at ours. But it's highly common in America, right?
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Originally Posted by rockzmom
I know that you will laugh, but this is actually a VERY small house by American standards.
I am sorry, rockzmom, but when I saw the picture, my first thought was exactly that the house is very small... :oops: and not only by American standards. :oops:
Well, yes, we Russians often live in city apartments which are even smaller than this house, but as a separate house... I think it doesn't look as a big one by Russian standards, either.
About trimmings (?? not sure if it's the right word) of the house... Is it (aluminum) siding? It's not very popular at ours. But it's highly common in America, right?
Not to worry Olya! Yes, I live in a shoe box. You should have seen it before the addition!!! And we have four adults (me, my husband, his youngest brother and his older sister) our two girls, soon another adult and child (my husband's brother's pregnant wife and their daughter), and our two cats and a very large gold fish all snug as bugs inside!
Actually the house has vinyl siding. Aluminum has been phased out for vinyl. The houses across the street from us, they are made of brick and they also have basements, which flood a great deal and have been causing mold :bad:.
Our house was cheaper because it had the siding, no basement, and no driveway when we bought it. BUT... the previous owners added on that front section that comes out a little bit and that is a HUGE kitchen. It is the largest room in our house!!! And as you will note from the other thread I just started, I LOVE to cook. So, that was the reason we bought this house. The house has a great deal of wood inside. All "white oak" floors and wood cabinets. It adds a very warm feeling to the home and that also means that the termites like it as well. :cry:
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If Basil would not mind people adding to his thread (or we could start a new one) ... I would very much like to see other people's hometowns and/or current views of where they live.
I don't mind at all. You are welcome :) .
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I see you have no gratings on your windows in spite of that it's the "first" floor. Is it okay in America, or you just don't like gratings, or your windows are bulletproof? :)
In Russia, many people who live in the first floor, install metal gratings on their windows. It often looks terrible both on the inside and on the outside, but... safety goes first. :( What about that in America?
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If Basil would not mind people adding to his thread (or we could start a new one) ... I would very much like to see other people's hometowns and/or current views of where they live.
I don't mind at all. You are welcome :) .
Thanks Basil :friends: Do you have any photos of where you live now????
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I see you have no gratings on your windows in spite of that it's the "first" floor. Is it okay in America, or you just don't like gratings, or your windows are bulletproof? :)
In Russia, many people who live in the first floor, install metal gratings on their windows. It often looks terrible both on the inside and on the outside, but... safety goes first. :( What about that in America?
Oh, the wonderful metal bars on the windows. Remember, I have lived in a number of places...Maryland; Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, California; Chicago, Illinois; Long Island, New York; Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Palm Beach, Florida; and I have never had the honor of living in an home or apartment with bars on the window! I have seen them, just not lived in one.
To be honest, when I was growing up in Bowie (the first set of photos) we also only had a one story house but even the two story houses did not have metal bars on the windows AND most of the time, we did not even bother to lock our windows, doors or even the car doors for that matter.
I remember my grandfather, the one I wrote about in the thread The Night James Brown Saved Boston, he never locked his car and used to keep the keys to his car under the floor mat INSIDE his car!
Now, in my neighborhood where I live now, times have changed, but not THAT much. We still will sometimes forget to close our windows and leave our car doors unlocked or the shed open. Our house has been broken into twice since 1992 (once they broke a glass window to the back door, which we now have a piece of unbreakable glass there and the other time a window was left open). The first time our neighbor actually watched it happening; but, she was too afraid to call the police because she was illegal and thought she might get deported if she called them. The second time, it was a bunch of teenage kids as young as 13 and they were stupid enough to come back to our street the next day. We have a retired police officer living on our cross street and she saw them and realized these kids did not belong in our neighborhood and started to talk to them and they got all nervous and she called her buddies still on the police force and they got them.
BTW, it is interesting that you comment about safety... The problem with the bars on the windows is it is a saftey hazard. If there is a fire in the house, people often get trapped inside and die because they cannot open the bars or the fire department cannot get them open. The people usually die from the smoke, not the flames.
The places around here that I see them the most are in Washington, D.C. and in Baltimore, MD. There is where you will find them; but in the “suburbs” not too much.
Sorry for the long answer to your question... :oops:
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The day when darkness came to my city and turned a day to a night.
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If ever asked: What's more useful, the Sun or the Moon, respond: The Moon. For the Sun only shines during daytime, when it's light anyway, whereas the Moon shines at night.
What if both of them will take a rest one day? The rest for a while, or forever ... ?
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/5729/eclipse2.jpg
The view from my window upon full Sun eclipse of 2008 August 1 at 17:52. You can see the Sun hiding behind the Moon. The Sun halo in reality was negligible. The remarkable shining circle around the Moon is due to overexposure, otherwise the buildings would not be visible at that fantastic moment. The two white dots are stars.
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That is definitly a photograph!
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I am on the seventeenth floor:
Lampada, is that Lake Michigan??? What a fantastic view you have! It brings back so many memories for me spending my college days there on the lake trying to study while looking out the classroom windows; but, in fact daydreaming.
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The view from my window upon full Sun eclipse of 2008 August 1 at 17:52. You can see the Sun hiding behind the Moon. The Sun halo in reality was negligible. The remarkable shining circle around the Moon is due to overexposure; otherwise the buildings would not be visible at that fantastic moment. The two white dots are stars.
CoffeeCup, once again, you have proven you are definitely an excellent photographer. Didn't you win the award on another thread? You have a great eye. Have you studied this in school at all or is it just a hobby for you?
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Great photos, guys! I want more. :yahoo:
Лампада, отпад просто! Рыбу ловишь? :)
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And now a view from my window (an almost 180-degrees viewing angle). It looks distant because I zoomed out, but it's actually very close, right across the street:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9914/leto2copyg.jpg
Chestnut trees are blooming right now, and it's very nice
The road to the right at night:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/9840/nightgri.jpg
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Chestnut trees are blooming right now, and it's very nice
These are FANTASTIC! I love your night shot!
The chestnut trees, can you actually "help yourself' to the nuts and roast them and eat them? Is there street vendor? My dad simply LOVES chestnuts!!!
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Basil... once again, thank you so much for starting this thread even though it was not what you had in mind and I want to see photos of where you live NOW!!! Pleassssseeee. rockzmom.
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The chestnut trees, can you actually "help yourself' to the nuts and roast them and eat them? Is there street vendor? My dad simply LOVES chestnuts!!!
No, in Russia and Ukraine we have only Horse Chestnuts. :"": They look almost the same as Sweet chestnuts, but they are not edible and even (as far as I know) they are two unrelated kinds of trees (different families). I wish we could eat them... There are bunches if chestnut trees everywhere.
PS.
edible
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-Chestnuts.jpg
local nuts :)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...anum_fruit.jpg
... and local chestnut blossom (Does it look the same?): http://www.ljplus.ru/img/g/a/garkushev/kashtan2.jpg
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Basil... once again, thank you so much for starting this thread even though it was not what you had in mind and I want to see photos of where you live NOW!!! Pleassssseeee. rockzmom.
I myself actually don't shure what I had in mind starting this topic... :roll: Just found that blog and desided what someone could find it interesting. I just came home and made a couple of photos from my balcony:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8508/p1010237.jpg
http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/1993/p1010239.jpg
And here are these places on the photo from the blog:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/48/151464311.jpg
Rockzmom, I'll post more later in day light, if you wish. :wink:
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and local chestnut blossom (Does it look the same?)
There are also rose ones:
http://photo.i.ua/channel/163/1097727/
chestnut blossom closer
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/3011/sky ... bd629e3b_L
Photos are not mine. :-)
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I
[s:2rhbu5or]myself actually[/s:2rhbu5or] don't
know for [s:2rhbu5or]shure[/s:2rhbu5or] certain (I always prefer the word certain; however, it is spelled sure and there is nothing wrong with using it, just a style choice.) what I had in mind starting this topic... :roll:
I just found that blog and
[s:2rhbu5or]desided[/s:2rhbu5or] decided [s:2rhbu5or]what[/s:2rhbu5or] that someone could find it interesting. I just came home and made a couple of photos from my balcony:
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Rockzmom, I'll post more later in day light, if you wish. :wink:
Ahhh! Basil, thank you. You did perfect by predicting my question before I had to ask you “What is that building in the photo?” It is a bank!!! Are you part mind reader??? :spiteful:
And yes, to your other question and to all of you… I would love it very much to see as many photos day or nighttime of where you live, shop or recreation/park areas, even the mundane little things that you take as boring.
Remember, I am a clueless American when it comes to Russia, you are my tour guides. Show me (and others on this forum) your world and if you like… we can show you ours.
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Great photos, guys! I want more. :yahoo:
Лампада, отпад просто! Рыбу ловишь? :)
Да, повезло нам с районом. У сына в этом же доме двухкомнатка. Рыболовов тут много, но мы её "ловим" в магазине.
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You have a nice view of the park below! If you have children, it must be nice for them to be able to play right outside and for you to be able to keep a bird's eye view on them!
I have always noticed how a city planners make sidewalks around a park and people will make their own paths right through the park, the shortest distance thing. You would think that planners would finally begin to build this into their plans.
It's not a park. We call it a yard because there are many real parks in Moscow. There is a site about them. Unfortunately it has no English version but you can see some pictures of the parks views there.
From my window, I have a view on ruins of the building on the opposite side of the street with a willow herb growing on were it's roof was
http://s61.radikal.ru/i173/0905/32/99b6d56c9bdc.jpg
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CoffeeCup, once again, you have proven you are definitely an excellent photographer. Didn't you win the award on another thread? You have a great eye. Have you studied this in school at all or is it just a hobby for you?
I am infinitely happy with you liking my photos. :yahoo:
I've just taken a camera and made a shot. Beginners are lucky. :yahoo:
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No, in Russia and Ukraine we have only Horse Chestnuts. They look almost the same as Sweet chestnuts, but they are not edible and even (as far as I know) they are two unrelated kinds of trees (different families). I wish we could eat them... There are bunches if chestnut trees everywhere.
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There are also rose ones:
gRomoZeka & Zaya, thank you for explaining and for the photos. These trees are soooo lovely and I have never seen anything like your chestnuts. One more "silly" question... do the flowers give off a fragrance?
Also Zaya, your second photo brought back a memory for me of a bush that we have around here and that I had right outside my bedroom window as a child; a “honeysuckle bush.” Do you have them in Russia?
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...eysuckle-1.jpg
This is like the one I had outside my window. I would open my window and let the breexe bring in the wonderful fragrance from the flowers!
http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/q...uckle2-1-1.jpg
You can pull the flower apart and actually slurp up the nectar. It is VERY sweet and sticky.
Here is a REALLY cute video I found of how it is done…
[video:280kmigi]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa2OcJ-WvMw[/video:280kmigi]
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It's not a park. We call it a yard because there are many real parks in Moscow.
Studyr, if it has swings and slides etc., its a park/playground to me!
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From my window, I have a view on ruins of the building on the opposite side of the street with a willow herb growing on were it's roof was.
Studyr, It looks as if there is a man working on the side of the build and a crane there as well. Are they trying to renovate the haven for wild life or demolish it? If the willow tree is that tall, I am guessing that this building has been in disarray for some time. What was it before?
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gRomoZeka & Zaya, thank you for explaining and for the photos. These trees are soooo lovely and I have never seen anything like your chestnuts. One more "silly" question... do the flowers give off a fragrance?
No, as far as I remember, they don't. :-) But these days lilacs are in blossom too, so we have something else instead. ))
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Also Zaya, your second photo brought back a memory for me of a bush that we have around here and that I had right outside my bedroom window as a child; a “honeysuckle bush.” Do you have them in Russia?
I am from Ukraine and I have never seen it although the word "жимолость" is familiar to me. According to my encyclopaedia it does grow in Russia, but not in all its regions. :-)
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Rockzmom, yes it looks like a park, I just mean that we call it a yard. There is no willow trees, it's willow herb on the roof, it looks so:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/suffolk/content...rb_383x295.jpg
in august. And builders are working there but this is not the first attempt to renovate it. I hope they finally will make it looking OK, not as ''Frightening photos of my home town.''
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I hope they finally will make it looking OK, not as ''Frightening photos of my home town.''
My terrible English cause this misunderstanding. I didn't mean that my town is so ugly, I just wanted to say that when I looked at the photos I was really scared because it's too high. :sad:
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Great pictures everyone, it's great to see all these different perspectives!
Basil, you could use "from" instead of "of" and that would clear up that misunderstanding by applying the adjective "frightening" to the photos and not the town itself.
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Hey brandonp,
Pony up, where are your POVs??? :wink:
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Haha, maybe I will dust my camera off and take some pictures tomorrow and post them. :)
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About blooming chestnut trees... I just returned from Ukraine and made these photos at a small village near the border between Ukraine and Russia. It's a shame that the weather that day when I passed the village was rainy, but I found the composition of blooming chestnut trees, Lenin statue and an orthodox church is rather interesting:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/2118/p1010357.jpg
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/9500/p1010356.jpg
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...I found the composition of blooming chestnut trees, Lenin statue and an orthodox church is rather interesting:
ЧуднО смотрится огромный постамент под маленьким памятником Ленину. Да еще и рядом с церковью. :shock: Это новодел?
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About blooming chestnut trees... I just returned from Ukraine and made these photos at a small village near the border between Ukraine and Russia. It's a shame that the weather that day when I passed the village was rainy, but I found the composition of blooming chestnut trees, Lenin statue and an orthodox church is rather interesting:
Basil,
Lastnight I had the opportunity to see your photos, yet today, they will not come up :search: I must say, even though the weather was not perfect, I appreciate you taking the time to make these and post them these as I have NEVER seen such magnificent trees.
And you are right about your composition. I was trying to think of something to relate it to and I just cannot. So for me, it is just so hard to wrap my head around these things unless I have photos AND someone saying here look...
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ЧуднО смотрится огромный постамент под маленьким памятником Ленину. Да еще и рядом с церковью. :shock: Это новодел?
А фиг его знает. Просто проезжал мимо и решил сфоткать. Церковь выглядит, как будто к полуразрушенному сельскому клубу приделали сверху колоколенку. Там еще рядом вечный огонь и памятник погибшим в Великой Отечественной, буквально за каштанами, жаль в один кадр всё не уместилось.
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They are Nice webcam views! Especially the Right one, because the left one doesn't show anything to me.
I watched the manydecked ship left the harbour - looks nice.
You could appoint the appropriate for the Russians time, go out, stay there and vawe to us and make your vawing Global.
We all could see you.
Say, at nine o'clock in the Moscow, you could take a short break, go out, chouse the noticeable spot and make a little flashmob for us!
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Leof, it's been done. Problem is 9 hours difference in time. We'll see what happens.
Last summer I had 2 Russian kids that worked with m, They made a big ПРИВЕТ sign for their friends and family. All the other Russian kids head about it and started doing the same. People from the bar use the cam on the left with men "mooning" and women "flashing". :beer:
We'll see what happens.
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Re: Frightening photos from my home town.
When to stare? Where?
Have you done this already?