[emersonbiggins]

Happy Independence Day, ya'll!

Let's have a look at a few pictures from wherever in this fine country you happen to reside at the moment.

I'll start.

(not my image)

[IndigoMoon]

[Pops]

Kevin Michael's farm...



I read somewhere the Declaration of Independence could not have been written and signed any time other than late spring or early Summer.


Any other time and the mind was set on other tasks: such as survival.

[catbox]

View of Downtown Eugene....we have lots of green and plenty of water. Love my city!

[heroineworshipper]

We're going to need a bigger mortgage entitlement.

[CarlinsDarlin]

Some pictures from Richwood Mountain Farm here in North Central Arkansas. Happy Independence Day everyone!



Rainy day lunch buffet


Cinnamon grinnin'


Look close, you'll see deer


The east pond last winter (just to remind you that the hot weather doesn't last forever )

[killJOY]

My dead little town:



Right across the street:



My peak oil garden:



Happy Hoo-hah.

[AlexdeLarge]

A Happy 4th to you too!

I hope everyone has a safe, fun weekend!

[RedStateGreen]

Some pictures of Oklahoma City:





Have a great weekend, everyone!

[jdumars]

Nashville:



Our "sustainability project"...

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

[blukatzen]

This land was made for you and me....woody guthrie

Have a Happy 4th folks. (I gotta work)...

Blu

[PrairieMule]

[Aaron]

The Backyard - Texas

Happy 4th Ya'll

[web]http://picasaweb.google.com/AaronEDunlap/MyPhone/photo?authkey=itRrQyFFplw#5135315898050023810[/web]

[Ludi]

Happy Independence Day from Central Texas

[dinopello]

Happy Independence Day from Arlington



Took the puppy on a walk down by the falls this morning
(saw people fishing and boating but no kayak runners like this pic)



and will hang out in the neighborhood this weekend

[Kingcoal]

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Zion United Church of Christ in Allentown, Pa., was a refuge for the Liberty Bell after the British forces occupied Philadelphia in September 1777. The Bell was sent out of the city to prevent the occupying forces from destroying it. Hidden in the wagon of a farmer returning from Philadelphia the Liberty Bell was brought to the church by John Jacob Mickley and Frederick Leaser. Along with other Bells removed from the city, the Liberty Bell was hidden by the pastor, Reverend Abraham Blumer, beneath the floorboards of the church. There they stayed until the British left Philadelphia in the latter part of 1778, when they were returned to their rightful places.

One of the little pieces of history where I live. Happy 4th!

[MD]

lousy cell phone camera...but ver happy day!

[MarkJ]

Picture from yesterday here in Lake George NY.