|
|
Post by starwalker on Oct 19, 2019 22:20:51 GMT -8
|
|
|
|
Post by absarokanaut on Oct 20, 2019 11:56:20 GMT -8
That is deciduous paradise! Thanks for sharing!
|
|
desert dweller
Trail Wise!
Power to the Peaceful...Hate does not create.
Posts: 6,285 
|
Post by desert dweller on Oct 28, 2019 7:38:42 GMT -8
Here's the view from my roof. Looking northeast at the Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson.  |
|
rebeccad
Trail Wise!
Writing like a maniac
Posts: 12,247 
|
Post by rebeccad on Oct 28, 2019 8:16:10 GMT -8
|
|
|
|
Post by starwalker on Oct 28, 2019 19:23:09 GMT -8
Yeah, but what is in the other 3 directions?
I'm a desert rat too, even though I grew up in the plains of southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma and loved the Rockies. The most beautiful place I've ever seen is The Subway at Zion. I could live in the desert in the summer (less humidity and bugs, and here in the winter (if it snows for the 1st time in 5 years.)
|
|
|
|
Post by cweston on Oct 29, 2019 11:07:10 GMT -8
What the heck, I'll play. No mountains, but we like the place... Four directions from my house in the Flint Hills of Kansas, on Tuttle Creek Lake, on a dismal fall day: (This first shot includes our in-progress guest cottage)     |
|
|
|
Post by starwalker on Oct 29, 2019 17:36:12 GMT -8
Just like people look at mine and say "Is that Oklahoma?" they look at yours and say "Is that Kansas?" If I'd showed the scenes from my home in Wichita where I grew up, it would be 4 houses and their lawns.
|
|
|
|
Post by autumnmist on Oct 29, 2019 19:33:19 GMT -8
I'm envious - all that open space, and solitude.
|
|
rebeccad
Trail Wise!
Writing like a maniac
Posts: 12,247
|
Post by rebeccad on Oct 29, 2019 21:14:20 GMT -8
I'm envious - all that open space, and solitude. Yeah, you notice that despite my comments on my preferences, I'm not posting mine. Just a suburban back yard.
|
|
|
|
Post by cweston on Oct 30, 2019 6:37:36 GMT -8
I'm envious - all that open space, and solitude. It's all a trade-off, of course. We love being in the sticks and in the woods, but it's also a half-hour drive to the nearest real grocery store, etc. My wife and I both tend to stay in town after work on days that we have evening commitments, so we do definitely get fewer dinners/evenings together at home than when we lived in town. |
|
|
|
Post by autumnmist on Oct 30, 2019 7:12:12 GMT -8
Seems like choices often are "6 of 1, half a dozen of the other." I guess Camelot exists only in the movies, or in our dreams.
I love the greenery, but in my case it includes old widowmakers that periodically break off or come down, but wide open space could bring some strong winds and a different mix of wildlife. And I enjoy my wildlife, even the little squirrel that for some reason greets me when I go out to get the mail.
So I guess the choice is one we've all made one way or another: head for the hills, mountains, deserts, or wide open spaces.
|
|
|
|
Post by starwalker on Oct 30, 2019 16:50:17 GMT -8
We work 2 miles from home, so we still have to go to town. Yesterday, we had to drive 40 miles round trip to pick up a prescription and Coca-Cola.
|
|
|
|
Post by hikerchick395 on Oct 31, 2019 9:04:23 GMT -8
zoomed in view from kitchen window
|
|
|
|
Post by autumnmist on Oct 31, 2019 14:24:29 GMT -8
hikerchick395, that's a stunning view, with an especially stunning moon.
|
|
|
|
Post by hikerchick395 on Oct 31, 2019 16:17:43 GMT -8
It took me awhile to find a wider angle view from the kitchen (small enough file)
|
|
