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Photos. I am trying to think of photographs that says “Columbus” but not downtown Columbus. Photos that don’t say all of Columbus. I want a photo or two of the part of Columbus that I live and work in. The north outer-belt.

The photo above doesn’t even represent all of Worthington. It’s just the original little village, from Morning Street to Evening Street and North Street to South Street. What say’s Worthington - Clintonville - Westerville - Dublin - Powell - Lewis Center to you?

Things that say Columbus to me are… the skyline of Columbus. The statehouse… the arches in the Short North, but those are not the place that I live and work. They are for me the “nice place to visit (for Red, White & Boom, the Gallery Hop, The Columbus Arts Festival, etc. ) but I wouldn’t want to live there.” Not that there is anything wrong with those areas. I just don’t live or work there. I play there. I play there as long as gas prices allow.

I am not much of a photographer. I have pictures of Worthington, Dublin, Powell and Westerville.  I’m tempted to steal Alvin B’s picture of a 270 sign… on the 270…if he’s got one.  Bad blogger! … and 270 represents that whole big loop around Central Ohio, weaving in and out of the City of Columbus and other Central Ohio communities.

To some it is sprawl. To others it’s just “the suburbs.” In the Columbus Dispatch Sunday’s Outward urge article Central Ohio developers say today’s high gas prices are not going to keep the Columbus from expanding outward… or sprawling as some call it in the future.

The neighborhoods of tomorrow may be developed differently than neighborhoods of the 195o’s through this decade.