[softee]

My Dad sent me a new camera for X-mas (I didn't want to wait until X-Mas to open it haha), so now i can finally post some decent pics on here. Today i went to my friend's new apartment downtown and took some pics of the view from the 4th floor. I told her that if she ever moves out that I'll gladly take over the apartment just for the view.

On my walk to her apartment I snapped a pic of Main Street.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/MainStreetatX-Mastimeb12-21-06.jpg

Now for the view, NB looks good from this angle.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/ViewofdowntownfromTricias12-21-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Cooldowntownview12-21-06.jpg

Here's a little parkette that used to be the site of NB's flatiron building which unfortunately burned down in the 1960's. :(
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Viewofparkette12-21-06.jpg

That's City Hall poking up over the storefronts, followed by a zoomed in shot of some of the storefronts.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/ViewfromTriciasplace12-21-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Close-upofstorefrontonMain12-21-06.jpg

Check out the new houses being built on top of the escarpment several KM's away, nice view if you can afford it!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Viewofhousesonescarment12-21-06.jpg

Here's downtown's tallest building, now that's a lot of antennas!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Goldenagetowers12-21-06.jpg

Here are a couple of pics of some old buildings and some not as old buildings!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/HomesteadBlockandotherstuff12-21-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Zoomviewofbrickandglass12-21-06.jpg

On the way back home, i got a couple more shots of NB's Main Drag at dusk.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/MainSt-2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/MainSt-1.jpg

That's all for now, thanks for taking a look!

[shappy]

great shots. North Bay has a very nice main street!

my sister's in-laws (well, the extended family) are from a tiny French-Canadian hick town very close to NB. They're awesome people and dey tahok like dis... tabernac!

[softee]

^ HaHa Yeah, NB is surrounded by little Francophone towns on 3 sides (only the towns to the South are Anglo). North Bay itself is largely Anglo, even the people with French names from NB who went to French schools don't have any hint of a French accent, and they don't bother speaking French unless they have reason to do so.

[softee]

Time for more pics! Today I took my camera to the overpass that connects West Ferris to the City Centre, and got some shots of big, bad downtown NB.

Behold downtown North Bay! http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Downtownfromoverpass12-22-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Downtownoverpassviewcropped12-22-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Zoomedshotofdowntown12-22-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/ONTCbuildings12-22-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/DowntownNorthBayon12-22-06.jpg

Looking down Oak Street.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/ViewdownOakStreet12-22-06.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/Downtownovertheedge12-22-2006.jpg

Too bad today was such a gloomy day in The Bay.

[boden]

Never been there. Thanks for posting them.

[softee]

My pleasure, but i'm not finished yet! haha
On my walk to my mother's house on X-Mas Eve, i stopped to photograph my favourite old building downtown - the Masonic Temple (i know it's a bit crooked).
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasEvek11.jpg

Here are some more pics I took on X-Mas Day in a slighty gritty, largely Italian neighbourhood that sits atop a small hill just North of downtown and not too far from my mother's house. Most of the houses in this neighbourhood aren't very nice, but the view is great.

Strolling around in The Bay on X-Mas Day! Looking South towards downtown.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayresizeda1enhanced.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayb2.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayh8.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayd4.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayc3.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDaye5.jpg

The next group of pics were taken from the grounds of one of NB's 3 Hospitals.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayi9.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayl12.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDaym13.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayg7.jpg

This one shows some of the nicer old brick neighbourhoods just at the bottom of the hill.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasDayj10.jpg

I'll end this mind-blowing tour with a couple of shots taken from my apartment window, these two buildings are right beside each other, i call them brown and browner!
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasEven14.jpg
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y142/Softee2/NBonX-MasEveo15.jpg

That's it for now (until i get some new batteries).