Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky in an impressive 12 minutes. It was in Lees Summit, Missouri. This week’s is a tough one (I think). Good luck!
by Lee — ,
Last week’s contest was won by milwhcky in an impressive 12 minutes. It was in Lees Summit, Missouri. This week’s is a tough one (I think). Good luck!
3rd and Union, downtown Seattle?
@1
Yeah, that’s not it. Maybe we could set up a “Special Olympics version” of this contest for you?
Crystal Gardens in Victoria BC, perhaps
@3
Much better guess, but not it. :)
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TOTUS
(Teleprompter of the United States)
@5
Hell, even a teleprompter is smarter than Bush.
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@2: Careful Lee, that could be considered a put-down for the people in the special Olympics :).
This is a tough one – the flower pattern almost looks like the NBC peacock. The building is stang – it doesn’t look like abuilding in the US – Europe of SA maybe. But the gardens look British…maybe South Africa, or New Zealand.
Can’t tell from the trees and plants what the natural vegetaion is like – but it looks rather lush.
I think it is from South America. Argentina, maybe?
@10
It’s not in South America.
My guess is the AIG ceo’s house in Wilton, CT.
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1. trees imply East coast or Europe or some other area with deciduous trees.
2. The formal gardens and glasshouses or terrarium imply something built well before WW II … an arboretum or formal garden or museum. It could also be a private mansion except that I doubt the glasshouses would be that near to a major street.
It reminds me some of the grounds of the Schonbrun in Vienna. Terariums like this are also used as aviaries.
I think I checked the schoenbrunn pretty thoroughly. But, yes, Europe, not only from the gardens & formal buildings, but from the houses across the street. In my opinion.
It’s a Tibetan sand painting in a Lhasa temple that a Chinese army officer will stomp on tomorrow morning to assert Beijing’s hegemony and demonstrate that traditional Tibetan culture is passe.
Must be l’Orangerie de Crawford, TX.
I’m annoyed that I’m obsessed with this photo now. I’ve googled some version of botanical gardens for Canada and Europe trying to find this place.
There’s a solar panel, so maybe it is in Spain
I do not think that is a solar panel, it is too vertical. I think kit may be the backside of a billboard?
FWIW … take a look here:
http://vienna-photo.esem.sk/vi.....nic-garden
This suggests the period where such things were created although the buildings in Vienna are more ornate.
SJ, I think the billboard thing is right.
The leaded glass conservatory, I’ve seen at Indiana University (not this large though) and also at the State Capitol) and in Victoria, BC. This could be in Ottawa or Vancouver, like at Stanley Park, perhaps.
@18
Getting closer.
I was thinking the Duke’s Garden at Kew-but my GoogleGoggles are not working.
The buildings are modified conservatories with glass celestory.
The roadway and walls on the other side of the street scream of England, but could be on the continent.
Flying down to Australia for a minute–sure looks like British Empire-formal gardens, ahem.
Victoria, Aussieland-no
Glasgow, Bronx Gardens-no
Brooklyn, Sydney, Chicago, ok, back to the UK
Auckland, Johannesburg, Brisbane, Wellington, Singapore, The red snake motif in the beds……..
Edinburgh, Oxford, sleepy….
I think you stumped the band, Lee.
AHA!
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I should have guessed it immediately!
Quite a lot of MJ research too!