What's the nearest body of water to you?
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And in the footy match...
Forfar - 5, East Fife - 4.
You know, I saw some really old pictures from back before everything was dammed off and used for irrigation and such, and it looked like an actual river..
Yes, the Santa Cruz River is shown flowing year-round in pictures of my hometown of Tucson, Arizona, from 100 years ago. Now, it only flows when it rains.
There has been a community at the base of Sentinel Peak downtown for 11,000 years, because the river flowed by there. It only took a few decades for us to fix that. Where's my rolleye emoticon... oh, yeah, here it is:
There has been a community at the base of Sentinel Peak downtown for 11,000 years, because the river flowed by there. It only took a few decades for us to fix that. Where's my rolleye emoticon... oh, yeah, here it is:
Well, I'm not necessarily complaining. There are some good reasons why it needs to be opened every once in a while, but yeah it's mostly a very positive thing.
Yeah, I can understand that. We have a massive aquifer, and we're bleeding that dry too.
Lake Weiss
Suddenly I feel a strange compulsion to break out my fly fishing gear...The American River still flows..
There's an old joke about the football results and Forfar, Forth, Fife, four and five but I can't remember it. You get the picture anyway. All the other Firths sound fine (Firth of Tay, Moray Firth, etc) but the Forth gets a lot of sniggering.
I laugh at all of your pitiful little creeks and glorified gutters, for I live but a stone's throw from the mightiest of all rivers, the majestic Santa Ana. BEHOLD!
Many a blissful day I spent walking out to the middle of the sand pit, swarms of mosquitoes gracefully dancing around me in communion, welcoming me back to nature. I would fly fish its bountiful puddles, whose darkened depths held untold riches for those with a very active imagination or powerful hallucinogens purchased from the wise and mystical old vagrants who migrated its endless stone shores in search of aluminum cans and adventure.
There's also the Pacific Ocean about a mile and a half up the street, but when you have all of that right next door, really, who needs an ocean? Besides, there are dolphins and other unsavory types there like women's professional surfers and volleyball enthusiasts in their bikinis... Pfft to all that, says I. I'm at peace on the river.
Many a blissful day I spent walking out to the middle of the sand pit, swarms of mosquitoes gracefully dancing around me in communion, welcoming me back to nature. I would fly fish its bountiful puddles, whose darkened depths held untold riches for those with a very active imagination or powerful hallucinogens purchased from the wise and mystical old vagrants who migrated its endless stone shores in search of aluminum cans and adventure.
There's also the Pacific Ocean about a mile and a half up the street, but when you have all of that right next door, really, who needs an ocean? Besides, there are dolphins and other unsavory types there like women's professional surfers and volleyball enthusiasts in their bikinis... Pfft to all that, says I. I'm at peace on the river.
I think that's unfair on the good and glorious Firth of Forth, with its magnificent bridges.
In fact, in a recent survey on the most popular places in Scotland, I think the Firth of Forth finished fourth or fifth.
Snarf snarf.And in the footy match...
Forfar - 5, East Fife - 4.
The Colorado River. Not the really famous one, but the poor man's Colorado River.
I think you may have just won the thread.I laugh at all of your pitiful little creeks and glorified gutters, for I live but a stone's throw from the mightiest of all rivers, the majestic Santa Ana. BEHOLD!
Many a blissful day I spent walking out to the middle of the sand pit, swarms of mosquitoes gracefully dancing around me in communion, welcoming me back to nature. I would fly fish its bountiful puddles, whose darkened depths held untold riches for those with a very active imagination or powerful hallucinogens purchased from the wise and mystical old vagrants who migrated its endless stone shores in search of aluminum cans and adventure.
There's also the Pacific Ocean about a mile and a half up the street, but when you have all of that right next door, really, who needs an ocean? Besides, there are dolphins and other unsavory types there like women's professional surfers and volleyball enthusiasts in their bikinis... Pfft to all that, says I. I'm at peace on the river.
