Scenery of your town

nomadic

@ingolftopf Yeah, those photos were from a winter several years ago.

Not too many currently flowering trees near me (or trees in general), but the apricot trees did blossom last week. There is still the occasional below freezing night time temperatures, so might be a low fruit year. Still have plenty from last year, so no worries from me.

@ingolftopf said in Scenery of your town:

To the people who know their way around Sweden:
Do you also watch the "Elk Migration" on TV?

Interesting, that would be called a moose around here, while an elk is more like a larger variety of deer. Think I had heard about that naming difference before, but had almost entirely forgotten about it until now.

Don't get too many of your variety of elk, but they do occasionally wander South. There was at least one earlier this year.

shifte

@Tetsuosumo
I wanna try the yacht life.

Ayespy

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nomadic

@Ayespy Just need someone from Las Cruces and we will have New Mexico fully covered.

Ayespy

@nomadic I dunno. don't we need Gallup and Tucumcari?

Ayespy

@nomadic I'd take pics of "my" town, but I'm 17 Mi (25 minutes on mountain roads) from the nearest one

ingolftopf

@Ayespy
Sometimes mountains are simply in the way.

Ayespy

@ingolftopf I'll take the mountains over the town any day.

nomadic

@Ayespy I do have photos of Shiprock, Capulin Volcano, Carlsbad Caverns, and Gila Forest, but I guess those aren't "my town".

Tetsuosumo

@shifte I hear that. Quite expensive owning and maintaining a yacht tough. It would however be awesome to charter one for a few hours say just before sundown on a nice warm summer day

Tetsuosumo

@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:

@ingolftopf I'll take the mountains over the town any day.

Quite a peaceful life I take it

Ayespy

@Tetsuosumo It has its moments. 100 pastoral acres (apx 40 hectares) offers opportunities to decompress. It has to be cared for, so it doesn't really simplify one's life that much - plus there are the dogs, horses, chickens to care for, wild birds to feed, etc., predators to be cautious of... But the grandkids can get outdoor exercise, which is healthy, and one can look out over nature - which is never bad.

Plus, quiet nights, clean air and dark, star-filled skies at night.

One still has to go back to the grind and make money to live every day, but in-between, there is room to breathe and fewer instances of being pestered by salesmen, passers-by and proselytes.

Ayespy

I have two homes at present, over 1,000km apart, in different US states. Don't care to post any pics of the other one right now. But I wanted to mention a curious feature of American life: The gated community, with its Home Owner's Association (HOA).

Gated communities offer homeowners an opportunity to live in a place that is walled off from the world, has enforced uniformity of home appearance, and landscaping, and mandatory fees to pay for an organization (the HOA) which ensures that all residents live cookie-cutter lives of anxiety and quiet desperation. 84% of new US homes are now being built within HOA communities.

Truly, the "land of the free." see for instance: https://homeownershipmatters.realtor/password/arizona-homeowners-receive-little-to-no-protection-from-unregulated-hoas/

Ayespy

@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:

Don't care to post any pics of the other one right now...

Well, there is this. Little can rival a southern Nevada sunset.

Pathduck

@Ayespy said in Scenery of your town:

Gated communities offer homeowners an opportunity to live in a place that is walled off from the world

Like Celebration, Florida?

Even the dogs get facelifts
Down in Celebration, Florida

100 pastoral acres

Or in terms even non-farmers can understand: 0.92 times the total area of Vatican City.

Well, it's better than "40 acres and a mule" I guess

quiet nights, clean air and dark, star-filled skies at night.

Now that does sound great, I miss that. I need to get out of town more...

Tetsuosumo

@Ayespy Honestly even as a city boy I long for such a life. I hope I too can live like that one day

Ryszard

JASŁO z drona w 4K

Tetsuosumo

@Ryszard Beautiful town

Ryszard

@Tetsuosumo said in Scenery of your town:

@Ryszard Beautiful town

Want to see what condition the Germans brought the city to in 1944?
Displacement and destruction of the town of Jasło in 1944

Tetsuosumo

@Ryszard I think one has to make a distinction between the German people and Nazis. I can't begin to imagine the loss of life and senseless destruction that took place.