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bobpal

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We live in a smallish town in Southern Oregon, where small towns are the norm. My town, Ashland, has a population of about 22,000, just north are two smaller towns with populations of 6,100 and 4.200. The next town north is the big town in the county with a population of 86,000. We love living in a small town where just about everwhere you go you see someone you know and it takes a maximum of a 9 minute drive to get anywhere in town. We came from Los Angeles where 10 minutes of driving might not get you out of your neighborhood. That got old.

I like taking photos of our town and have gathered a large gallery of photos of it in the 7 years we have lived here.

Here is Ashland in the fall. At the upper left is Mount Ashland, a publicly owned ski mountain. The large building is a hotel, located near our theatre company, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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And here is a block of our downtown decorated for the holidays.
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I love small towns and live in one, but I also like to visit small towns when I travel. One of my all-time favorite towns is Crested Butte, Colorado, one of many in the western half of the state. I'm posting photos of the downtown, such as it is, but the real beauty of the place is the surrounding mountains. You'll notice a motley collection of bicycles on the sidewalks, there for anyone to use and leave at his/her destination. It's a long standing tradition.
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It is a very pretty town with a nice Tourist Bureau. Driving into it from Hwy 50 in the fall you see mountainsides covered with golden aspens. Kebler Pass just outside of town is also beautiful in the fall.
 
I love small towns and live in one, but I also like to visit small towns when I travel. One of my all-time favorite towns is Crested Butte, Colorado, one of many in the western half of the state. I'm posting photos of the downtown, such as it is, but the real beauty of the place is the surrounding mountains. You'll notice a motley collection of bicycles on the sidewalks, there for anyone to use and leave at his/her destination. It's a long standing tradition.
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That is a very pretty downtown.
 
I love small towns and live in one, but I also like to visit small towns when I travel. One of my all-time favorite towns is Crested Butte, Colorado, one of many in the western half of the state. I'm posting photos of the downtown, such as it is, but the real beauty of the place is the surrounding mountains. You'll notice a motley collection of bicycles on the sidewalks, there for anyone to use and leave at his/her destination. It's a long standing tradition.
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I just wish the speed limit wasn't 15 miles an hour all the way through town. Otherwise it's a nice town.
 
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