Sometimes…Beauty is Enough
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A good friend sent me this picture that he took yesterday morning in his back yard. He lives in the hills behind us.
Isn’t that nice?
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Tags: Birds, Friends, People, Scenery
That is for retired hippies like me. I cannot but help envying your friend.
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The mist reminds me of an ancient Chinese scroll…very peaceful.
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He is the manager of one of the area’s top plant nurseries – and it shows with what he is doing with the yard. He has paid his dues getting to this point and I’m really glad for him. He’s really a good man, hard worker, modest.
The San Francisco Bay, for those who have never been around here, is really a bowl with one part – the Golden Gate – connecting to the Pacific Ocean. The water of the Bay does not fill the entire bowl and we live on the flat area that most people live in. Behind that is a ring of hills surrounding the Bay and they are more costly, more prone to erosion … and vastly more beautiful. The hills are about 1,000 feet high with a few exceptions going up to as much as 4.000.
It really is a beautiful area with many different looks and about a zillion microclimates.
Jean, it reminds me of exactly the same thing. Very peaceful. It is quite beautiful up there. We eat out on the patio and watch the deer. Hawks fly overhead. The Bay is visible between the rolling hills.
Awww – I have spring fever so bad – we had several days in the 80’s this week but then this weekend will only be in the 60’s! A rollercoaster – but I have so many yard and garden plans for spring! I would love to have a beautiful, serene effect like your friend but, alas, I am not that talented!
Somehow, Deb, at 18 degrees, I can’t quite feel your pain
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Deb, get a life and move to Maine. I’m jealous!!!!!!!
Deb, our house IS 60 degrees. (We’re saving gas.) How do you get 80 degrees & outside no less? I want to move there.
I’m in Dallas and we have quite a roller coaster – the whole winter has been freaky like that and everyone has flu because we have cold – then hot! The 80s were freaky even for us but I do have plants starting to come up! Tonight it is 38 – so all over the map! That was my point – not bragging! Back to gardening – lol
bikehikebabe – where do you live? I don’t think I could function at 60 degrees inside! Viki – where are you? I talked to an old neighbor in Kansas City and she said they had 4″ of snow!
Hey, Deb, I’m in Manhattan, Kansas. We only got about an inch of snow, but dang it’s cold. Of course, we had the freakish 70 degree day earlier in the week, and I understand it’s supposed to get up to 72 on Thursday. We’re all sick, too!
I’m in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Mountainous- 7,400 ft. at our house.- 4 mi. away is our ski area (downhill & cross country) @ 10,400 ft. -Stays open thru Apr.
When we 1st built our house which is lots of glass on north side facing the big view, the windows rattled when the wind blew. We all wore our down jackets & turned the heat down so heat wouldn’t all blow outside. Got used to that. (Have double paned windows now.) Summers are 75 degrees mostly.
I gave up gardening long ago. All got eaten by bear, deer, rabbits, raccoons, coyotes, fox, gophers, forget others. We live on the edge of a canyon & first I dug out the tufa rock, then got black dirt from the forest for the garden. Whew!
Bikehike – Sounds gorgeous and your summers sound wonderful! Our summers are so hot that we rush from one air conditioned place to another or a swimming pool!
Viki – I love Manhattan – wonderful memories and a great place to live! We’re supposed to get more 80’s later this week also!
Oh, well, spring will get here soon! Yeah!
Deb and bikehikebabe: all of our places have something of beauty to them, don’t they. Great seasons, great scenery, great people.
I’ve been to Dallas – and I like it! – but, I’ve never been to Los Alamos. I had no idea you were at that altitude. Reminds me of when we lived in Gunnison, CO during the summers when I was a kid. I love the mountains! bikehikebabe, do you ever just lay outside at night and look at the stars! They are so stunning in the mountains on a clear night, where the Milky Way just stands out so clearly you can see firsthand how it got its name.
Beauty indeed!
When we moved here 50 yrs. ago the sky was the BRIGHTEST blue. Now not so due to pollution. However at our cabin nearer to CO, it can be almost that at times. The stars show up so bright there too.
I was walking at night there when I heard a loud hissing. Saw nearby in the moonlight, a large cougar with arched back. I walked away & not far I lay down to look at the stars. Idiot– but I wasn’t afraid that he’d come to get me. He could get me if I was looking at the stars or not. However…
What a great response, bikehikebabe. You really must be made of good stuff!
bikehikebabe,
I agree with Conrad, you’re made of great stuff…much better than me. I would have given up the stars and gone inside. I still remember the story of the fellow sitting under a tree in the mountains trying to lure some wild turkeys by blowing his turkey caller. A mountain lion pounced on him from the tree. The fellow managed to wrestle with him and the lion ran away. The fellow said he didn’t know who was more surprised, he or the lion.
When we had our garden in the woods I was walking down to it once when I heard a crashing in the bushes. My usual instinct was to walk away from noises like that, just in case it was a bear. This time I said to myself, “Don’t be silly. It’s just some elk.” A few minutes later I heard my husband call, “Hey, Jean, did you see the bear going down the road?”
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