http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/00002wfc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/00002wfc http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/0009y7pg.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/0001zd1z.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/00018bd9.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/00017tbs.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/0000yrpy.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/0000z72p.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/0001achc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/0001cces.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/gallery/00011r77.xml There are at least two of these signs, virtually identical except for the "Home of the Cordova Lancers" sign across the top of this one, posted at the two main entrances to Rancho Cordova: one by the Sunrise Boulevard bridge across the American River, and one on Folsom Boulevard at the other end of town. This sign is the one by the Sunrise Boulevard Bridge. I know you can't read a lot of the text on the sign, but it's not very worth reading anyway. The various little circles say: Cordova Community Council, Mills One Club, Optimist Club: Friend of Youth, Chamber of Commerce, Cordova Cares Children's Council, Cordova Late Nite, Rancho Cordova: America's First Drug Free Zone Community, Kiwanis International, Rancho Cordova Sports Club, Rancho Cordova Pride (nope, not queer related - tragically, everything queer-related is in downtown Sacramento, rather than downtown Rancho Cordova), Veterans of Foreign Wars, Rotary International, and Rancho Cordova Unified School District. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ske2h.xml a7936b0bd63c59794eba8603de391e95 image/jpeg 640 480 62879 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ske2h Late sunset, on a street that I drive when commuting to and from work. I am quite pleased with this one. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f9a5b.xml 5360532d8007f8592fba67b8eb8f45e6 image/jpeg 640 480 50151 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f9a5b Here's some barbed wire and warehouses, and some scattered houses, and an office building in the distance. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000dsr75.xml 00bb3945cefa24fceeb07d185c17757d image/jpeg 640 480 38389 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000dsr75 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ees85.xml 98ffc18385bca837004ac8a3c220122e image/jpeg 640 480 64814 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ees85 Six of Snow White's seven dwarves have gathered around the front door of one of my neighbors. What happened to the seventh? http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ft36f.xml ff0aa2c5c309cbf5a8f13dbaf396bad3 image/jpeg 640 480 52010 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ft36f Sunset in suburbia. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f0q7s.xml 957655d45271f227988dc4d087493ddf image/jpeg 640 480 42668 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f0q7s This is the most nighmarishly stereotypical vision of Suburbia ever, and I live right next to it! They should film scary movies about suburbia on this street. But you can tell it's a somewhat lower-class suburbia because those people's back fences are all built so close to their houses that it doesn't look as though they even have enough of a back yard to fit in a back doorstep. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ep3tp.xml f397b1b64e6c783bf8da94a2bbca9520 image/jpeg 640 480 40167 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ep3tp A street near me is bordered by a long white brick wall, which is covered with the remains of a vine that appears to be dead. Unfortunately, the wall is difficult to photograph properly without being hit by a car - there isn't room to stand any distance away from the wall, so you have to photograph it with extreme closeups or strange angles. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fa51r.xml 5df900b85f9b2346b8adb3860a63038b image/jpeg 640 480 75764 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fa51r http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ed5f3.xml fc6703aaad03bac96985f9be7787902e image/jpeg 640 480 35394 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000ed5f3 I rather like this building, but I'm not very pleased with my photograph of it. Unfortunately I found that I simply couldn't quite fit the entire building into the frame of this picture, because if I backed up far enough to fit it all in, there were suddenly so many trees right in front of me that no matter where I went, I couldn't see the building anymore at all. So you'll have to be satisfied with a badly composed picture of it. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000dq9f5.xml 974a43256078ca8a34ea5a528e24d9ff image/jpeg 640 480 44148 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000dq9f5 This is part of a huge cluster of about twenty nearly identical large buildings that are all being built simultaneously in one around one of the freeway exits near me. Apparently they're going to be apartment buildings, but they, too, have been under construction for nearly a year already. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000pqz4r.xml bc193d7f5e1da9452c41a6d3178cf3b5 image/jpeg 640 480 48073 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000pqz4r This is a piece of standard corporate-commissioned sculptural "art" on White Rock Road (outside the ghetto area). Naturally, it looks utterly indistinguishable from every other piece of corporate-commissioned sculpture for miles around. Also, although you can see that it has lights carefully arranged all around it in the grass to light it up at night, you can tell by the fact that I chose to photograph it in the daytime that it does not look the least bit better at night. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000prwtw.xml acc7a12bce868981c44dfb3ecfd3e204 image/jpeg 640 480 50479 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000prwtw Here is the intersection of Disk Drive and Data Drive. Can you guess what industry the office buildings around here tend to belong to? http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000pttqc.xml 6d2079e7418a6210f8cf79f5276862f1 image/jpeg 640 480 83747 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000pttqc Are you sick of having neighbors who aren't interested in aviation? Have you ever wished you could live in an *aviation-oriented community*? No? Well, apparently *somebody* has. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fxe9b.xml 74a49145df147aea7b4a2536c65a167a image/jpeg 640 480 45046 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fxe9b One thing I like about where I live is that wherever there's a bit of open space or a long road heading east, you can see the Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance. Here they are, as seen from across the "aviation-oriented" suburban housing development known as Stone Creek. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qg92c.xml 83f2999a74865beaeb5ab65e5bb3c0ed image/jpeg 640 480 37146 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qg92c These cows do not take much notice of how nice the Sierra Nevadas look in the distance. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000psttz.xml 5dc5bfae3136f18f023be15e6cd91916 image/jpeg 640 480 32112 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000psttz One thing I like about where I live is that wherever there's a bit of open space or a long road heading east, you can see the Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance. Here they are from just east of Sunrise Boulevard. (Sunrise Boulevard, in my neighborhood, pretty much marks the border between populated and unpopulated areas. Nobody lives east of Sunrise. Come to think of it, that's probably why it's named Sunrise - it's located in the same direction from everybody as the sunrise is.) http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qhk8e.xml 7fca232599509805474a5ebf3fcef129 image/jpeg 640 480 27224 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qhk8e One thing I like about where I live is that wherever there's a bit of open space or a long road heading east, you can see the Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance. Here they are from just east of Sunrise Boulevard. (Sunrise Boulevard, in my neighborhood, pretty much marks the border between populated and unpopulated areas. Nobody lives east of Sunrise. Come to think of it, that's probably why it's named Sunrise - it's located in the same direction from everybody as the sunrise is.) http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qk4s5.xml 9eaf4798facbf183ce5b5d546ee0e5f6 image/jpeg 640 480 27302 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qk4s5 I photographed this especially for LiveJournal user "prairiecity," who had no idea there was a California state "vehicular recreation area" named after him. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qdzc9.xml cd10ebb03853f95f4abe19c28db7f2a8 image/jpeg 640 480 41612 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qdzc9 I photographed this especially for LiveJournal user "prairiecity," who had no idea there was a California state "vehicular recreation area" named after him. The sign says, "Come out and play!" Above the words "State Vehicular Recreation Area" are a series of pictures representing, um, "vehicular recreation." http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qe98h.xml 6d165ef051aed975d4ddb54a4017f202 image/jpeg 640 480 52657 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qe98h This is a fairly unexceptional picture of an intersection at night. I just liked the arrangement of colored lights, and the way I caught them while the traffic lights were changing colors. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000q7sq6.xml e2147e989ee799c813d4600e0909220b image/jpeg 640 480 24488 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000q7sq6 Matthew Kilgore Cemetery is a very tiny, abandoned, Gold Rush-era cemetery. The city has grown up all around it, so now it is enclosed on all sides by office buildings. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fd9bb.xml d5b8673c4ced1f5996ba22ba038054fd image/jpeg 640 480 58283 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fd9bb http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f89fb.xml ad0ea4158272c30a203a7848b2d3b8c0 image/jpeg 640 480 58224 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000f89fb I like the ambiguity of this picture. You could almost mistake the cemetery for a sort of public square: the tombstones in the foreground look rather like parking spaces (unless you look close enough to see the words "Our Baby" and "Brother" on them); the Fankhauser tombstone looks almost like a corporate nameplate, and the other tombstones surrounding it could almost be standard public art of the kind frequently found in front of office buildings. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fbs8q.xml a5008e3f898eef5916b9bff9c6d3f56f image/jpeg 640 480 49404 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fbs8q Here is a fallen tree branch in Matthew Kilgore Cemetery. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fc8t7.xml a11b7dedb81a8a63408d94b9a1ac1677 image/jpeg 640 480 67407 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000fc8t7 I bet you thought inner space was by definition unphotographable, didn't you? But here it is. Inner Space: A Garage Cabinet Company. (And if you think the colors in this photograph look slightly odd somehow, that's because I adjusted them slightly to make them look odd. I mean, I think it would just be *wrong* for inner space to look totally ordinary, don't you? http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000q6rsw.xml 5e088cf1fd72fe37ce6ca27d7593f90d image/jpeg 640 480 39305 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000q6rsw This is a sign in front of a different strawberry stand. The stands themselves all look pretty much alike. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00010y03.xml 1c9057d80dc1f8f64d47276ebd4c8e99 image/jpeg 640 480 41240 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00010y03 One of the biggest crops that farmers seem to grow in the fields around here is airplanes. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000122t9.xml e1f376b607cbcd583fc66d4a54f6531b image/jpeg 640 480 34753 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000122t9 The large airplane crop is probably one of the reasons the farmers lack "clean dirt." http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00013935.xml 5abb343f04ad9e91154c0cef2303aadf image/jpeg 640 480 39313 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00013935 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00014f2d.xml 14cf113504b8ab6f804e50cacdf719b2 image/jpeg 640 480 53854 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/00014f2d Here is what my neighborhood looks like at sunset when seen from the next suburb over to the east. The mountains in the distance in this picture are the coast range; the Sierra Nevadas were behind me while I was taking this picture. http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qf13z.xml 49e9f1d1ce4286b50ae2b4bc22c89889 image/jpeg 640 480 21838 http://pics.livejournal.com/queerbychoice/pic/000qf13z