Sweet Home Alabama-In Pictures
 

On more than one occasion, someone will ask me what it is I love about living in Alabama. It is hard to put into works and luckily for me a picture is worth a 1,000 words. So, I decided to show everyone what it is that I like about living in Alabama.

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The Birmingham Skyline at Night
 

http://images.mylot.com/userImages/i...tos/743944.jpg

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The Birmingham Museum of Art
 

http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/ma..._arts_600x.jpg

(My home away from home)

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The Gulf Coast
 

http://www.hothealth4all.com/upimg/070921/1_140IB91.jpg

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Jasmine Hill
 

http://www.gardenvisit.com/assets/ma...arden_600x.jpg

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The Plantations
 

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4137/...cc840a5d31.jpg

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Noccaloola Falls
 

http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...a-ferguson.jpg

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Mardi Gras (it originated in Mobile, AL in 1703!)
 

http://blog.al.com/mardigras_impact/...mg-dragons.jpg

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The Football
 

http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/cnishared/...onship_Foo.JPG

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Oh RollTide !!

and what about that statue.. I can not think of its name.. thats lights up at night..and you can see his hiney under the skirt he is wearing !

Vulcan-God of the Forge
 

http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI...1597-19019.jpg

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The Alabama Theater
 

http://kathysheridan.com/blog/wp-con...ds/theater.jpg

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I love Joe Cain day!!! The widows are always a lot of fun!

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Mardi Gras and Mobile
 

I use to work downtown when I first moved here. I thought it was odd that the cars had to be off the streets at a certain time before the parades. :readfineprint:The tow trucks line up for blocks to get the cars of the misinformed. Thank God I parked in a parking garage. :jester: Good times.

I used to go to Mardi Gras every year. I have very happy memories associated in Mobile.

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I stopped because I had children. ;)

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That is how it should be.

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i'm partial to southern history. great photos to share.

in my pre-teens, i spent a few summers with my sister. she lived in a small community called trafford al, just to the north of birmingham. we didn't go into birmingham very often, but we traveled all around that area. i do remember seeing the vulcan as a child.

since then, i've traveled thru birmingham many times. and tuscaloosa. i've never been to a football game in tuscaloosa, but i have been to basketball games and fast-pitch softball. bear bryant was still coaching the times i visited my sister. everybody loved bear bryant! still do. but i remember seeing his image on lots of things.

i got on a greyhound bus in birmingham, by myself lol, to come home to mississippi. great memory as a child.

thank you, laney, for sharing. i enjoy(ed).

Thank you for sharing, it looks like a wonderful place to live.