Towns And Rivers

Sometimes I can't stop my mind from wandering...

Rivers have been in my life constantly.  Grandparents and parents lived near the Ohio and Kentucky rivers.  Lived near the James in Virginia when I was a little boy.  I have visited the Mississippi in New Orleans and Tennessee/Arkansas.  For the most part they are kind until they flood...

I love rivers. In my sig you can see a place near (a few kilometres) which I lived for the last year. Now in live in Paris - so it's the same river, but closer and with a completely different look.

My home town bears the name of its river, which meant "fast" at it origins. It's a word of Slavonic origins, some forum members will recognize it: Bistriţa.

I love to see rivers going through towns. I'll post pictures of my favourites places.


Edited by harmonium.ro - May 09 2010 at 07:36

Well, I live in a river...

I think Bruce Springsteen used a river as a metaphor in his best song The River. I think that song is brilliant. His only brilliant song though. 

Me too has been living alongside rivers for many times and rivers are so ingrained in my personality that I don't even think about it. I really love waterfalls though. They really fascinates me. Even small streams fascinates me. I have no idea why. Nurse !!!!!!!!!! 

Under the direction of American Revolutionary War statesman General "Mad" Anthony Wayne, the United States Army built Fort Wayne last in a series of forts near the Miami Indian village of Kekionga in 1794.^[6] Named in Wayne's honor, Fort Wayne established itself at the confluence of the St. Joseph River, St. Marys River, and Maumee River as atrading post for European settlers.^[7] The village was platted in 1823 and experienced tremendous growth after completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal.^[7]

Lizzy wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: My home town bears the name of its river, which meant "fast" at it origins. It's a word of Slavonic origins, some forum members will recognize it: Bistriţa. Who else? *looks around very frightened* Oh wait! I'm in another city at the moment!

Well, we have Russians, Ukraineans, Poles, Czechs, Croatians, Bulgarians, Latvian and other guys speaking Slavonic languages here on PA.

I was born in a town on the Thames estuary but at that point the river is too wide to be considered anything other than a bit of the sea. I spent a lot of time as a child playing, exploring and fishing on the salt flats and marshes between two nearby rivers, The Crouch and The Roach. Later we moved to a village in Bedfordshire on the banks of the River Ouse (aka The Great Ouse) where the river was an integral part of growing up (swinging, fishing, boating, canoing) - this river is the same one as in akamaisondufromage's picture above, just a hundred or so (river) miles upstream from where that picture was taken.

Zebedee wrote: I live next to this body of water, but honestly, I've never seen them before Some other photographs from my hometown: Got to love them mills This should be enough evidence for my hypothesis that the Dutch are the worst drivers in the world. Last year a plane almost crashed down on my hometown as well .

Well, I'm going to have to blame those three people for all the flooding that happens anywhere.

Wait a second, I see a fourth guy in the pic, he did it, he did it!!!!

On second thought, I'll get back to you as soon as I figure out exactly what the it it was that he actually did.


Edited by Slartibartfast - May 09 2010 at 17:00

harmonium.ro wrote: Well, we have Russians, Ukraineans, Poles, Czechs, Croatians, Bulgarians, Latvian and other guys speaking Slavonic languages here on PA.

Oh... so you were talking about the name! I thought it was about the actual town. Hihi.

So... Ljubljana with Ljubljanica:






^ excuse the 1 minute exposure!

I've always wanted to kill my baby pet dog "Down by the River".