"Your hometown is where they can't figure out how you did as well as you did."-Unknown
Welcome to our latest Round Robin Challenge: Your Hometown. Marie, who authors the blog, Photographs and Memories, and hosts the Blogger's Community Photo Challenge, submitted this idea for consideration when we did a roundup of new ideas a while back. What a great idea, Marie! I love showing off where I live, the only problem is, I have probably shown just about everything there is to see. What to do, what to do?
Ok folks, here are some photos old and new. The East Bay hills is a gorgeous place to live, I don't see myself living anywhere else for the rest of my life, although I do daydream of retiring with Alan to the East coast sometimes. Someplace where I can get snowed in with a bunch of cats for months at a time. Someplace where the leaves really put on a show in autumn, and everybody has a fireplace. Don't you just love the smell outside, when everyone has their fireplaces going?
And yet, I am completely convinced I live in the most beautiful place in the world. If I had to choose, I would visit all those places I just mentioned, but I would always comeback here in my heart. I have fallen hopelessly in love with the view from Grizzly Peak Boulevard, and the Berkeley Marina, with it's view of San Francisco, and of course, you know how much I enjoy Tilden Park, especially in autumn. Yep... I am a true California Girl.
Here, have a look and see for yourself...
Sather Tower
Protesting On The Berkeley Campus
Hwy 13 Going South
Berkeley Marina
Tie Dye
Biking is the Preferred Mode of Transportation 
Autumn In TildenIsn't it beautiful here?
Now that you have seen my hometown, go have a look at where the other participating Robins live! Or better yet, post your own hometown entry. There is still time, just pay a quick visit to the official Round Robin blog to learn all the details!
Linking List
Marie... Photographs And Memories
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Gattina... Keyhole Pictures
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Monica... Family Affair Photography
Karen... Outpost Mavarin
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Wammy... The Ellis Family
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Martha... Menagerie
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Jill... South Bay Soliloquy
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Cheryl... Life Through My Lens
Erin... Life Of A College Student
Jama Hameed... Sweet Memories
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Connie... Far Side of Fifty
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Carly... Ellipsis
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Kat... In My Dreams I Can Fly
Teena... It's All About Me!
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Ellen B... The Happy Wonderer
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Mary... Hippie Gypsy
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11 comments:
Good morning! love the views around your neck of the woods. I get to spend a few days with my husband in San Francisco in December while he attends a conference. I haven't been walking around San Francisco since part of our honeymoon in 1974...I bet it's changed a lot :0)
Have a great weekend...
Like you, I am a California girl, just a bit farther south.
But I love the Bay Area. I try to get up there at least once a year.
And yes, it is lovely in the fall.
Carly, Beautiful photography! Your photos are so soul filled and calming to me.. Thanks:)
oh carly! you did a wonderful job in presenting some 'new' faces to your home town. i absolutely love that top photo and the marina. gorgeous. :)
Awesome pix, as usual!Thanks for the tour!
I played too :)
Love that bridge shot! Can't wait to see it in person one day! :)
I wish to see California one day, too. It's not so fun here when you are snowed in but have to be somewhere. Or when you have to shovel 27 inches of the heavy stuff...
xo Phinney
http://geminiwilder.blogspot.com/
The marina shot is wonderful, with colors like melting sherbet! I love the Sather Tower one, too.
I don't blame you for loving your home. You are surrounded by beauty, and have a great eye for discovering and capturing it.
I love that berkeley marina shot, just so lovely!
Such great shots Carly. You live in a very beautiful place :-)
I love the top image, love the angle & warm tones of the sunset.
Marie
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