Norwood by cdonohoue

Norwood

The challenge for today was to take a picture of your hometown - so I did. I always say that I am from Cincinnati, Ohio. If I said I was from Norwood nobody would know where that is. Norwood is a city in and of itself. We are totally surrounded by the city of Cincinnati. We have our own school system and local government. I could have gone downtown and gotten a much more spectacular shot but I decided to share our city hall and the main drag. See the big pine tree there by city hall? Well when I was a child they always had a little house by that same tree at Christmas time. The story goes that folks took me up there to tell Santa what a wanted (and this only child got a fair bit at Christmas) and Santa was drunk as a skunk. My folks weren't happy.
interesting looking place
August 3rd, 2012  
Beautiful street shot, Cathy! Looks like such a nice small town! My kind of place!
August 4th, 2012  
What a great picture of Middle America. Love the architecture and the reasonably-sized buildings.
August 4th, 2012  
Nice street shot. I think you captured your town very well.
August 4th, 2012  
Sounds like a neat little town and I love small towns!
August 4th, 2012  
Lovely wide street and the Hall looks big! Great story - poor Santa!
August 4th, 2012  
Nice shot.
August 4th, 2012  
nice capture Cathy
August 4th, 2012  
Drunk as a skunk santa. Love it. Great history of your hometown! Nice, lady!
August 4th, 2012  
Vee
Now I know about Norwood and where it is! And how nice....no bumper to bumper traffic like my town!
August 4th, 2012  
City Hall looks beautiful. Nice capture. Thanks for sharing about your hometown.
August 4th, 2012  
Looks like the best of America! Thanks for sharing your memories!
August 4th, 2012  
funny story...nice hometown!!! well, except maybe for that Santa
August 4th, 2012  
Beautiful area to live in.
August 4th, 2012  
Love the story - made me laugh.
August 4th, 2012  
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Thank you all. This really is middle America at it's best. I had the best of both worlds growing up. The small town atmosphere of Norwood and the big city of Cincinnati all around us. So, values and variety.
August 4th, 2012  
Very nice capture!!
August 4th, 2012  
Esh
Lovely leading lines!
August 4th, 2012  
Lovely hometown - those roads are soooo wide :)
August 4th, 2012  
That is such an amusing story to go with this lovely picture. Nice, solid-looking town.
August 5th, 2012  
Love the Santa story!
This looks like classic America to me - I'm always amazed how wide your streets/roads are!
August 5th, 2012  
interesting photo and great anecdote
August 6th, 2012  
Well that's Santa for you. LOL Gorgeous architecture.
August 7th, 2012  
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