The house I was born in [actually, I was born in a hospital, but this is where I lived back then. And do now]. View from front of my house [was my house from '59 to '64.... I am very happy. This is where I come from. I am learning to take pictures. Maybe in a year, a better camera......
First pic is really juicy looking. All that fresh green and the impressive clouds. I envy you. I live in the city, not a particularly nasty one, granted, but your place looks better.
This is a nice city. It is only a city because a municipality has different taxes to collect and gets things too, like grants to build roads and install drain pipes. This was called a Village in the old days before the 20th century, but the municipality, who's 'Reeve' [like a mayor, sort of] did not care about the mud in this village, only about the mud up on their hill, which wasn't as much mud. SO, having mud didn't add any good to the shopping experience in this entrapped in pretty hills, of which one hill has the town, and the mud in the little valley was for the village people, to walk in, which they didn't like... It was called Mudville. One day the hundreds of people mostly farmers around and some small businesses right in the wet part of the Prairie, held a vote, separated from the municipality, called themselves [us] Langley City, instead of Langley Prairie, and then taxed people, which they couldn't do before, in order to build side-walks, ditches, pipes, pumps and stuff. City is not the feeling here, only where the shops are does it feel like a town, and not a city. A town. 30,000 people here. Not perfect, there is a big city not far from us. And it has some BIG problems. And the bus doesn't arrive here after 9:00 PM it only makes trips out.
There is a wetlands runs through the middle of this little city [There is already a Langley Township, it is up the hill...]... Let me call it a town, please. In this little town, a river runs through. It is a little river it can be waded in many places. But when it floods, watch out. The wetlands turns into a lake. Well, a kinda marsh? Anyway, muddy under the nice beautiful grasses and all the other shit growing, all green and fuzzy looking, until you try and hug one...