Our lives are brought together by the things we have in common. We share friendships that have no boundaries. We see things that are truly unique, and things that are the same. Here we will knit together the strands we share...
We saw a faded, hand-painted sign on the side of the road for this, and who wouldn't stop to see a giant frying pan?
I asked the woman at the gas station if it was the U.S.'s largest frying pan. She said didn't know. She just knew it was Iowa's.
So what signs of Spring's approach (or at least Winter's winding down) do you see?
This is Windsor Castle which is about 15 miles by road (10 miles as the crow flies) from the spot I sit here in my lounge.
Windsor Castle is the Queen's official residence and is the largest occupied castle in the world. We took a visiting American friend for a look around Windsor Castle last summer and here are some more pictures
All over San Francisco there are big hearts designed by different artists. The one in my neighborhood looks like a chalkboard (complete with badly erased things). I often see people stopping to rub it to see if the writing comes off. 
This also seems appropriate for Valentine's Day week.
We grow our fruit big here in BC...
Yup. The Big Apple.
Last weekend, my hubby and I took a break from Big City househunting to check out a mall. We walked by this window display:
Now is it just me, or does the sight of a heart exploding out of a mannequin's chest just not really cry out "Valentine's Day"? Come to think of it, it didn't really entice me to go buy some overpriced yoga wear either.
I wonder if their aggression leads to exploding hearts.
I have found a better "Biggest"! In Kingston, Ontario, we have (for 4 days anyways) the world's biggest snowglobe!
It is over 2 stories tall and 20 feet in diameter. Unfortunately, the people that were supposed to be in it were out to lunch! Or a warming break perhaps. It was -10C....
Chocolate Moose!
Len Libby Candies in Scarborough, Maine is home to "Lenny" the 1700 lb Chocolate Moose.
It's the one place we always visit with our flat travelers, and we always pick up something (usually a "chocolate lobster on the rocks") to send home with our visitor.
...finally found the giant Tweety in, of all places, my colleague's office next door. At first I thought about Beaver Stadium, but nope, Michigan's Big House is still bigger (albeit by only a few thousand people) -- fair's fair.
Tweety sits in her desk chair when she goes on vacation, otherwise he is ensconced in her visitor chair.
Cop out!
Yeah, what can I say, I've been super busy on the weekends packing and stuff and there IS a dorky giant pair of cowboy boots outside of one of the malls near us, but I just haven't had time to get over there!
So since I hate Texas anyway, this Alaskan girl will give you a picture of something her hometown (Palmer) is famous for (photo courtesy the Juneau Empire--I told you I was a cop out!)
I have plans for a better "Biggest", but in the meantime, how a bout a big snowstorm?
It's the biggest one we've had so far this year...
Well this was my first thought for "Home of The Giant..." This acorn is used every year on New Year's Eve to welcome in the new year. They raise it up and drop just like they do with the ball in Times Square! If fact the local media here does a split screen as the ball drops in Times Square with this giant acorn. It resides in a park downtown.
Funny thing was on the way to get the picture for this, we saw another giant sitting on the side of the road!
I was stumped on the Home of the Giant... until yesterday, when I was crossing over the Mississippi into Iowa. Home of the Giant... river!
And you thought only Americans did the "Biggest giantest best" shtick! This giant strawberry is an actual fruit stand located on the Friesian isle of Texel.
in New Hampshire, but we do have this...Mount Washington....home of the craziest weather...does that count? I have yet to go because I am afraid, you can't go now anyway because of winter but even in the summer it scares me, small roads, big cars, big fall down...You get a bumper sticker if your car makes it, sorry life is more important to me than a sticker!
Here is my addition to "Home of the Giant..."
One of the Giant Pandas, who call the San Diego Zoo their home. This gal is just a baby, I believe she is Su Lin. I took this picture in August 0f 2006, right around her first birthday. . . You can read more about them, and watch the Panda Cam HERE.
Sorry for two pics. Where I am from, Circleville, Ohio, we grow some of the largest pumpkins you've ever seen. We also have the world's largest pumpkin pie. I took these pics a couple of years ago as my hands were too busy with a newborn to take pictures this year but the pie has now grown to 14 feet from the dinky 3 feet in the pic above. The numbers on the pumpkins are the weights of the pumpkins.
The Pumpkin Show is near and dear to my heart as it is a yearly tradition for my hometown and even the schools close. I planned my wedding around it in fact.
Although I am not from Blue Earth, Minnesota, I do have the somewhat dubious honor of once having stood, as a very young and impressionable girl, right underneath ol' Jolly Green, much as the woman in this photo is doing.
Alas, my suburban 'hood is not one to find either a plastic pink flamingo in winter (although there are TONS in the summer, including a local prank where a randomly picked yard is filled with dozens of them in an overnight 'pink flamingo raid') NOR something of gargantuan proportions, I am at least able to say my home state has many of these giant things.
Baudette, MN on the Canadian border is home to the World's Most Giant Walleye, but I couldn't find a photo.
Vegetables, anyone?
