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Look exciting!

Very nice, hammy! There is some good detail in it, though I think it's a bit blurry. From my part I bring in some nature of the lower mountains of Alpena, more at my CJ. Haha, yeah, that's me being too liberal with the Gamma/Brightness/Contrast in Photoshop. Err, I mean the rodents of Rodentia demand all visual representation of their land be blurry! Awesome shot of Alpena!

Really great larger city! The only thing I'd say is just maybe not to fill in all of the area between the streets with zoning so you have more room to place trees, eye-candy type stuff in-between. Very impressive overall though, especially the roadwork

Haha, yes, most likely I did Wow, thanks for the honor of being a Chosen One again! Competing against Paeng as a City Journaler is like being a circa 25 C.E. messianic figure competing again Jesus (the other one, of course)

Love the last entry and also the effects in the first picture

Conspicuous Consumerism at it's best Beautiful work!!

I especially like the dam and town shots. Beautiful work!

Beautiful details here. The water in Tyler does not look safe for swimming (but it looks really cool)

The crop circles are nice! The Boreal Forest is cool too. Yeah, it's a similar depressing feeling when watching Nature on PBS or whatever and it shows a really beautiful forest scene or polar bears hanging out and the narrator says "Soon all this will be destroyed." :/

All the photos look really great, especially the logging scene!

Incredible region view, as always! Love the Great Sound photo too

Oh wow, truly amazing and inspirational pictures!

Cool roadwork! Also, the embankments look really great!

Amazing work! Everything is arranged so perfectly and looks really beautiful.

Nice, especially the last pic!

wow! Incredible, almost like I'm there!

Wow, great update! Love the last photo especially!

Incredible work! I love the plaza shot.

Ugh, I feel your pain-- when programs don't have an auto-save feature I usually end up losing a lot of work too. When will I learn? Good beginning.

Nice work! Awesome roadwork too

Incredible detail! I love the highway shot with the train running past the houses.

Really awesome. The storefronts picture looks so lifelike. The top photo makes me want to order some saag paneer!

Squirrelton: With a steady population of 6,439 residents, a small arts community in Squirrelton has emerged. Mayor Nutter, eager to get back into the community’s good graces, has enthusiastically embraced Squirrelton’s visual artists and musicians and their creative endeavors. After reading the local painter Gerbily Kandinsquirrel’s treatise Concerning the Squirrel In Art, the mayor himself has become an avid painter and student of the never-ending quest to visually articulate the Sublime. Or so he claims. Pictured below is the Bushy Tail River Center for the Performing and Visual Arts, comprised of a museum, art gallery, and outdoor concert hall. All concerts are free to the public and financed through charitable endowments and a city-wide Hipster Tax. The Arts Center is located in close vicinity to the heart of Alderperson Pelosi-Groundsquirrel’s district. On warm summer nights, residents living nearby can hear the sounds of Mousegang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphonie Concertante, 1st Hamster being played in the distance. Concern remains regarding the true motivations behind the mayor encouraging a Squirreltonian Renaissance, however. Residents were somewhat alarmed by the lavishness of Mayor Nutter’s recently completed house and grounds. The mayor recently exhibited one of his paintings titled “The Soul of the Two Squirrels and How They Jump At Dusk.” He explained the subject matter examines “the trajectory of the aesthetic critique in Rodentian Art and how it impacts art and the process of art-making.” The Squirrelton Inquirer’s arts reviewer Holland Cottontail called the work “rubbish” and “an offense to every single part of my eye.” Creative types aside, most residents still commute to Squirrelton’s Rat Tail Peninsula for work. Blue-collar townspeople like Old Craftsman PJ prefer to hang out around the bars near the fishing docks. Although a skilled draftsman and sculptor himself, PJ feels unease among the champagne and caviar crowd. “I’ll go to those art gallery openings for the cheese, sure. But that’s it,” he says. Despite the thriving arts scene and growing population, Squirrelton still remains a sleepy small town that holds the traditional values of Rodentia dear: a love of nuts and berries, unequivocal reverence for rodents, and a hope in a future filled with outbreaks of plagues of mice and rats. ------------------ Credits: Mods are SimPeg (Paeng’s Parks, MTP, OWW, SPAM, Pond, Stream, Lighthouse, Rail Mod, (lots and mayor-mode ploppables)) Murimk’s rocks, ALN Pasture Flora, Cycledogg trees, SFBT trees, NAM & SAM, Lowkee33’s Appalachian terrain, SHK HD Rock Mod & HD Brigantine 2.0, Riverside Beach Mod, Euro sidewalk texture mod. Various RLS houses by Sim Goober & FishTale Pub by Sim Goober, Shmail’s Commercial Finals, JB SmalltownUSA, CLC Outdoor Concert. --------------- Replies: (I replied in the last Journal’s entry but this seems like a better way to go about it) @Mastof: thanks. You would think with all of the cliffs bungee jumping would be really popular in Rodentia but strangely, not so @NMUSpidey: Hey thanks so much! Ah, I miss walkmans. The iGopher, however, does easily fit in one's pocket @Blakeaway: Haha, I see what you mean now. Is it the scene where Faramir and his gang are snooping around while Gollum is swimming in the pool? @Schulmanator: Thanks, it's the SHK Brigantine 2.0. At first I tried their Silt variation but the original seems to match best with PEG's ponds and streams @emperordaniel: hahaha, thank you If the Balrog did appear, Mayor Nibbly would probably have to unleash AutoSaurus Wrecks and hope they work out their aggressions on each other. -------------- Thanks for looking at Squirrelton and The Region of Rodentia!

Hey thanks so much, guys!! Will post individual replies in my next update and stuff

cool!