January challenge

[borisalex]

I'm in for the gate one! Lots and lots of them here. Good one, Coleen!!!!! You rock!

I read today, that a car driver hit Bush´s gated home in Dallas! Such a shame, he missed him! Inch´allah!

[janicecd]

We don't have many gates around here, but I am keen to go looking for some - might be a good way to get me out exercising in the neighbourhood.

Merry Christmas to all
Cheers, Janice

[travelingrabbit]

I read today, that a car driver hit Bush´s gated home in Dallas! Such a shame, he missed him! Inch´allah!

It is a shame that a man who claims to be a good Christian has such hatred in his heart, especially during the Christmas season.

[borisalex]

I read today, that a car driver hit Bush´s gated home in Dallas! Such a shame, he missed him! Inch´allah!

It is a shame that a man who claims to be a good Christian has such hatred in his heart, especially during the Christmas season.

I think the car driver was so excited to see Mr. Bush, that he lost control of his car, accidentally hit Mr. Bushes´s "gated" home and couldn´t see him anymore afterwards,because of questioning, so he missed him! What else did you think, I thought?
Cheers
Btw...we have free speech HERE, unlike some other places in the world! Wikileaks is an good example!

[alina_kurbiel]

I read today, that a car driver hit Bush´s gated home in Dallas! Such a shame, he missed him! Inch´allah!

It is a shame that a man who claims to be a good Christian has such hatred in his heart, especially during the Christmas season.

I think the car driver was so excited to see Mr. Bush, that he lost control of his car, accidentally hit Mr. Bushes´s "gated" home and couldn´t see him anymore afterwards,because of questioning, so he missed him! What else did you think, I thought?
Cheers
Btw...we have free speech HERE, unlike some other places in the world! Wikileaks is an good example!

Could you be so nice and explain your last sentence too? Quote: Inch´allah!?

[texces]

We don't have to many cultural areas around here. Everyone pretty much lives altogether and not in separate communities so finding different cultures would be very difficult. I'm still on board for the gates, though. Found some great ones the last few days in East Texas.

[lynnh]

We don't have differences in cultures here, so I don't think that challenge would work for me. Sugar Land is predominately Asian, Indian, Hispanic. But everyone wears the same clothes, and lives in similar houses, goes to same restaurants and schools and there aren't really any differences to be found without going into someone's house or something. I'll go with Gates. We have some very beautiful and interesting gates here!

[lynnh]

AND... the tragedy about the car crash at George Bush's house was that it was a 68 Plymouth Hemi-cuda muscle car. Hate to see a hot vintage car get hurt. The man was showing off and the gas pedal stuck.

[texces]

I'm ready to rock and roll on this challenge....found some gates around me that I really like. Haven't shot any pics of them yet but I will!

[marielou]

....Shall we be doing illustrations of the DOORS songs ?...

[lynnh]

Boris, gates do not shut one out. That would be a fence. A gate is a portal, a door through which we pass from one realm to another. I believe that your photo gallery of cultures around town would be viewed at a gate. A gate that opens to an opportunity to learn about others.

[denniswarren]

I like your last comment Lynn, it shows a true wisdom and compassion for acccepting others.

[borisalex]

Thank you Lynn, this is constructive, I love it!

My point was, having lived in Orange County (the whole county is gated, no blacks, no hispanic, in the streets where I lived), CA, 5 years and in Nashville, Green Hills, two years, I never understood only why to cross a street to find yourself in another world, I always felt sorry! Plus, on top is that the gates I know were protected areas, where rich people live. Friends lived there and we visited, to enter, knowing the code at the gate. Maybe I misunderstood the gate thing you guys are talking about. We have here....no gates, we do have doors, entrances, portals! This is nice to photograph!

I´m sorry, if I was misunderstood, but please respect also my point of view, regarding gates, the one I know from the US!

I will certainly join this challenge to show all nice entrances etc. here, mostly of baroque and old houses.

Guten Rutsch in´s Neue Jahr
wünscht Euch
Boris

[lynnh]

I'm very proud of Sugar Land's diversity. We've been named by the Anti-Defamation League as a City of Respect for 3 years in a row. Our neighborhoods are completely mixed, as are our schools and businesses. We are also named as one of the Safest Cities in America.

http://www.usariseup.com/feature-storie ... -diversity

[amoxtli]

This is the racial make-up of Orange County, California, mentioned earlier in this thread, according to wikipedia:

"According to Census Bureau's 2006 American Community Survey the racial or ethnic makeup of the county was 64.76% White, 16.05% Asian, 0.33% Pacific Islander, 1.72% African American, 0.38% Native American, 14.32% from other races, and 2.44% from two or more races. 32.89% of the population were Hispanic of any race. 30.49% of the population was foreign born."