Coming soon. Damn phone doesn't want to upload pictures. Will post when I return to civilization. Running water, electricity, & the like.
Yeah man lets see it. All I've done this year so far is go to a funeral in Gulfport and spend a day and night in New Orleans. I need to get out in the sticks get my mother nature fix.
You still mad about that time in the woods when I made you squeal like a pig? That was all in good fun really have a sense of humor.
I don't squeal for anyone. Your wife obviously has a good sense of humor, but as for the rest of us...
I've spent 5 weekends in the Shenandoah so far this year, and a handful of day hikes too. Beautiful area, and I only saw bears once!
Don't worry, phatty. The scent of friction-bourne pubic aroma did not fill the air... Nor did the inconveniences of lacking the subtleties of modern life (minus the running water and alternating current.) I spent the past few days living in my grandmother's house, which had been vacant for at least two years. My "camp out" was little more than hiking to a clearing in the woods - it was spending a couple of days reminiscing summers and winters past, paying homage to a house that had provided shelter for three generations of my immediate family. Time, as it is - nothing while I was there. A lifetime of memories, played in fast-forward before my very eyes. It was amazing. And, I absconded with a couple of doorknobs straight from the Disney Alice in Wonderland movie... Pics of this sentimental shit and the main attraction to come...
There really is more to come... My aunt's old 'toilet seat' on four legs that sat above any toilet came in handy the past two evenings, as well as the 'secret stash' of toilet paper in my great-grandma's bathroom. Previously, a sudden case of the runs would necessitate a trip to the new 24-hr Wal-Mart, but after the discovery of the portable toilet seat, I could take a shit from the comfort of the yard itself! Pictures are coming... honest. Not like that old Tornado thread I started a few years ago (which, oddly enough, happened in the same town.) I'm thinking mid-week, we should have something.
I came back thinking you had posted picturs of your nostalgia infused trip, only to find that there was a reference to the tornado thread and no pics. Fool me once, shame on you Fool me twice, shame on you again!
At... Long... Last... Lomo FINALLY comes through with some pictures! First - the picture that served as the inspiration for the title of this thread. The most beautiful sunrise I've ever seen. Taken with my cell phone, from an upstairs bedroom window. The songs of birds waking and the ~80 degree breeze rustling the leaves of hundred year old pecan trees filled the house. Like I said before - time froze, and you'd never think that in just a few hours, the temperature would be well over 100. The picture was taken from the top right window: Next - a photograph taken in 1900, of the house as it was when it was first built. On the porch are my Great Grandparents, holding my Great Uncle as an infant. Thanks to Google, I can get a shot from roughly the same angle of the house as it stands today:
I still can't get over how much that house changed over the years, yet you can't tell any alterations were ever done. I love those tall windows. Reminds me of a house here in town that no longer exists, but I did visit it and take pictures. Too lazy and tired to scan them right now, but I think I can find some on the web. This picture is actually the back of the house. It was moved from it's original location and the back of the house faced the road. I wondered why when I visited it why the back of it seemed like it should have been in the front. It had a nice big porch and big floor to ceiling windows. It was a very pretty house. It's a shame that it's gone now. It had been made into apts at one time... kinda fucked up the design inside and the plaster/drywall was in terrible shape. I have pictures of that as well. Structurally, it felt sound. I wasn't afraid to climb the stairs, but some of the rooms had already started to gut themselves. :frown:
I wish I had pictures of it during it's many alterations. Regarding the house you posted... No doubt about it, that is definitely the front of the house. Wonder what the other side looked like?
I can't. I have pics of the front (back). I will post pics of that house on myspace when I get unlazy. I got a bunch of pics recovered from a scratched disk that was on my old laptop last night but those pics weren't on it.
