My Super Nerdiness has been Reiterated...

I know I am super nerdy. You do, too. We all know it...

Given that intro, you won't be surprised to know that I was almost doing back flips in excitement when I noticed Wednesday that Google Street View now includes our house. Woo hoo!!!






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You know I couldn't let my excitement stop there... Nope. No way. I had to call Mike on his cell phone right away. I took a screen shot. Then I analyzed exactly when the photo was taken.

If you examine the image closely, as only I can, you will see some clues:

1. Our mailbox (just off the screen but viewable in Google Maps) is the white one. We use this one for the winter season.
2. The driveway posts are still up. We remove them after cutting the lilies but before the first snow. This means we were in Fall or Spring.
3. The lilies have greenery. It must be late Fall because they'd be tiny at the point in the Spring when the first two situations would exist. The greenery is also a little yellowed.
4. The trees still have leaves and the leaves have not turned. That moves the time of year to late Sept or very early Oct.
   
5. The double-tipped spruce tree is still standing. I posted about losing 1/2 of it in June 2008. The remainder of the tree was removed in September 2008.

Given the 5 points above, I deduced that the street view imagery was collected late in Fall 2007. I have no idea when the imagery was posted to Google's public servers, but it had to have been recent. I use Google Maps for directions all the time and would have noticed.

There are other fun things to note.  Our truck is in the driveway, but Google kind of fuzzed it. The cones are up on the edge of the driveway, so it must have been rainy around then. Both the lilacs and the tree by the driveway look very small. The lilacs are almost touching the power lines now and that tree is huge. Could it have been 2006? But, if you look at the horse paddock it is pretty overgrown. In 2006, Finale would have still been around (Connor and Fiona would have been 2, and I know we were still feeding her then). The neighbor's old car is in front of their barn. The girls got rid of that and got new cars when they graduated college in May 2008. The section of Reservoir St between Castle Rd and Crawford was missing until very recently... Gosh. I know no one cares about this but us, but I am entranced!

Cool!!!