A-Z Places

[AuAL]

Himeji castle, Japan

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Incline Village, Washoe County, Nevada

 

[Cutesie]

Jefferson County Courthouse, Beaumont, Texas

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Ketchikan, Alaska

The kind of place I where would love to live.

 

[AuAL]

Loch Ard Gorge, Port Campbell National Park, VIC, Australia

The gorge is named after the clipper Loch Ard shipwrecked in 1878. Of 54 passengers and crew, only two survived: Thomas Pearce, one of the ship's apprentices, and Eva Carmichael, an Irishwoman emigrating with her family, both of them 19 years old. According to memorials at the site, Pearce was washed ashore, and rescued Carmichael from the water after hearing her cries for help. Pearce then climbed out of the gorge to raise the alarm with local pastoralists who quickly came to Carmichael's rescue. Three months after the disaster, which claimed the lives of seven members of her family, Carmichael returned to Ireland.

 

[Cutesie]

Manchester Central Library. Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald laid the cornerstone in 1930, and it was officially opened in 1934 by King George V.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

North Bend, Oregon

 

[Cutesie]

Orion Building, a 28-story residential tower in Birmingham, United Kingdom.

 

[AuAL]

Palace of Westminster clock tower, UK

The large bell inside the tower is Big Ben.

 

[Cutesie]

Palace of Westminster clock tower, UK

The large bell inside the tower is Big Ben.

The structure was renamed to Elizabeth Tower, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

Qingdao, Shandong, China

 

[AuAL]

The structure was renamed to Elizabeth Tower, as part of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012.

I could say the photo was taken before that happened (it was while I was there in 2009) but I actually didn’t know that. Thanks.

 

[NDR2]

Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan

 

[Cutesie]

Swan Lake. There are tens of lakes with this name. The one pictured - in Waldo County, Maine - was originally called Goose Pond.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Temecula Valley

I grew up very near there.

The mountain I grew up on. My mountain. My beautiful, lonely mountain is in the center. It is much taller than it appears in this photo, as this vineyard is on a ridge,

The green of the vineyards and the tract homes is an illusion in the desert, all stolen by the city from our aquifer. We had the mineral rights. And they drained our well to build their city.

But that's inconsequential. I loved my mountain. My beautiful, lonely mountain.

Where coyote pups would wrestle and play in our lower pasture. The only sound for miles was a horse's nicker from across the valley, or a redhawk on the wing.

 

[Cutesie]

U-Haul Towers in Phoenix, Arizona, international headquarters of the moving and storage company - for now. Last December, it purchased CenturyLink Tower, a much-bigger building nearby. Operations will gradually move to the newly-named U-Haul Tower over the next few years.

 

[AuAL]

Venezia, Italy

 

[Cutesie]

Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, County Wexford, Ireland. Completed in 1776 as a grain market, it later served as the town hall, before being converted to its current use in 1974.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

X-ing of a series of light rail trains, trolleys, and busses across the Tillikum Crossing Bridge. Portland, Oregon

 

[Cutesie]

Yellow House (Casa Amarilla de Caracas), Caracas, Venezuela. It has served several functions over the centuries: a prison, the city council's headquarters, seat of the national government, palace of the president, a court building and, since 1912, headquarters of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico