Reader Alan e-mailed the above photo. He explained: “Lake-On-The-Campus at Southern Illinois University. This may come as a surprise to Europeans used to urban universities, but in the US universities, especially land-grant university, often include huge tracts of land. In this case the university has a 40-acre lake, a farm of roughly equal size, and a dairy center. ff to the far left you can see the small campus beach in the distance.”

If you’ve got photos of your town, neighborhood, city, etc. and want to share it with the readers of this blog, please e-mail me.

Reader Alan e-mails: “Andrew Sullivan has a feature on his site called ‘A view from your window’ where he posts pictures posters send him from their homes. I always found it kind of interesting, and also informative to see images of various places.

“I wonder if your site would benefit from something similar–though I don’t know if you have the space for it. It might prove helpful in educating people about various places and countries, to dispell the stereotypes I’ve mentioned before.”

I like this feature at The Daily Dish as well and find it a great idea to do the same thing here: the only problem is that Andrew has 75,000 hits per day, whereas I have 1,000. This means that there are far more people who (can) send Andrew a photo. That being said, even if we’ll only be able to publish a photo every week or so, it’s still nice so, I have decided to do what Alan asked. Let me start off with this foto:

Izmir, Turkey.

If you would like to share a photo of your home, village, city, garden, etc. please send it to me (e-mail button in the right sidebar)