The Penguin slept here.

[gridlore]

Found something oddly disturbing when making the map for the last post.

Go to this map page. Click on Street View.

That's the house I grew up in. That window on the left was my bedroom for a very long time.

Very odd feeling.

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[lostwanderfound.livejournal.com]

That just inspired me to check out the house I grew up in.

It's almost unrecognisable; they've ripped out all the gardens and landscaping from the yard and turned it into a boring patch of dodgy lawn. The built-in ratchet sprinklers that became machinegun nests when we played soldiers are gone; so are the flowers that I used to drink the nectar from. Bugger.

At least the house is still there.

[cmdr-zoom.livejournal.com]

Same for my childhood home. The structure is still technically there, and the land, but it was a moment in time... that now exists only in photograph and memory.