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Tomball Tour

Here is a photo album of our little town. Our first centenial is 2007.

That's my favorite kind of "downtown," Edgar. What a great place to call home.

Looks hectic. I hope you have a quiet place to get away to.

Even if we did elect Dan Patrick state representative.

I've posted dozens of photos from where I live here on various threads - this is a very unspectacular, taken on my daily tour to my mother's (= from home to native town = 9 miles)

We are in the middle of an enormous surge in population and construction. A new freeway, meant to ease the traffic jam, will only result in a faster filling in of every square inch, between here, Magnolia, Houston and The Woodlands. A million is the projected poulation increase for this area.

A few years ago, I drove to work almost alone. Rarely did I pass over one or two cars. Now, it's slow and getting slower. To make it worse, there is no traffic light to let us out of the neighborhood. Also, midway between here and my job, a huge complex is scheduled to be constructed. It will encompass a small lake, a subdivision of houses, townhouses, a line of businesses and a church on a great tract of land. It will cover the area from hwy 2920, hwy 2978, and stretch to the next light down 2978, which means that both possible routes I could take will be through the construction and new traffic.

The street our neighborhood opens on is a major route they take between The Woodlands and Houston, but it is a two lane thoroughfare, without a turning lane. They ought to have made it wider years ago, before laying in a new Walmart and a town-sized bunch of businesses and subdivisions.

So, the pictorial is misleading in leaving out that type of info.

Very nice, Walter. Looks quite peaceful.

I always enjoy your photo's.

Painful, Edgar.
They're trying to put in a big ol' Home Depot right on the edge of my neighborhood. Yuck!

At the edge of my neighbourhood - well, it's more 100 yards kitty-cross our home - they've opened a wine shop three years ago.
It changed fast to become a nice restaurant which sells wine as well.

I like the food there (as do some other A2K'ers :wink: ).

Photo taken today, on a rainy, ugly November afternoon:

George, Home Depot in Houston chooses spots as near to Lowes as they can possibly get. It's a tactic they used to smother Builder's Square out of existence, as well as Furrow's before that. Any Lowes near you?

Yep. And there's already a Big Orange one town over from it.
The Stoneham entry represents a classic flanking maneuver.

While they try to bleed Lowe's, the two hardware stores on Stoneham's
Main St. are going to suffer.

This is my home town




...and that's where I live now

Breathtaking both are beautiful!

Yes, they certainly are.

Gorgeous, Jane!

I can't imagine geetting tired of that view.

I never grow weary of walking down that particular row. It really is an exhilarating walk and on a sunny day, when the crows are flying overhead, I enjoy an occasional "Caw...caw!"

And, a lovely row it is, gus. I'm a little suprised you didn't choose the one just to the left, but I guess we all have our own reasoning.

You have impressive cob, Gus.

Gus uses them for toilet paper. He uses a brown cob, then a white cob to see if he needs to use another brown one.

Ha! I can actually imagine that!

I'll stop doing it now.