The Worlds You Live In

[Karl]

The other day I was looking out the window at the fields over the back and I wondered what sort of worlds all you fellas live in. I mean, when I look at a post from a Canadian, I think of giant pine-trees covered in snow - probably because I don't know any better. The US, and I think of bright colours, a lot of noise. I study maps and read a lot of history. I like hearing about pioneer stories, stories about the land. I've read a lot of North American Indian folk tales and that sort of thing. Jack London novels, Patrick O'Brian, anything about adventure.

Because I'm unable to get outside much, I can't get enough mental distraction from the boredom and the PTSD. Wondered if any of you fellas had a good story about the area you live in, or a pioneer story - or anything about your country that you'd like to share? When I think that the whole of England could fit inside the state of Kansas, I know that America is a big place and must be different all over.

(bored but not boozing) Karl

[Dan]

Hi Karl.
Pine tree covered in snow here

I live in the middle of a huge country. Thousands of miles east or west to reach an ocean. Slightly less north, where the Arctic Ocean lies.
From sea to sea to sea...

I live in a smallish northern town, where people from all corners of the planet settled around 150 years ago to start extracting the rich ore bodies underground.
Our community sits in the middle of a fairly big impact crater, where vast mineral wealth was left behind after a meteor visited, eons ago.

Hard rock mining, blue collar community, still with a foot in the 19th century it seems sometimes, while at the same time carving out it's place in these new times.

We're surrounded with big wilderness, endless lakes and forests, a rich and diverse wildlife and countless species of trees and plants and insects.

Insects...
We have something we call the black fly. A tiny, carnivorous thing that loves human blood. This time of year is it's active season. They will drive a man mad. Songs have been written about the nasty beast.

I've lived on the pacific coast, and I've lived on the atlantic coast of my country.
Now I'm in the middle. And I haven't really seen any of this vast land yet.
My inner Jack London is still owed his due.

[nutz]

southern CA.
Imperial valley. it's low desert
It's agriculture
The weather is beuatiful almost year round
spring and summer, summer.lol

The valley is very beautitful , if you get out to experience it
During spring time the field are green for miles.
I love the sun sets. The sun setting under a partly cloud
cover sky behind the mountain range
The beem like rays pertruding thourgh the clouds, if thou god
himself is right there with me.
Then the horizon glows bright orange like an inferno.
As you watch the bright orange ball decend behind the dark
ridges. The reflection from the clouds truns the sky redish to
purple. I feel like I'm in heaven. At times of growth my vision
becomes crytal clear. I feel the lite breeze curessing my
skin as I watch a bird fly. I feel insignificent, yet a part of it all.

During winter you can see the snow covered mountain peaks
I also love to drive to the mountain , whiney roads, lakes
and pine trees. I uaually spend all day just taking a lay back drive.
During winter time , I 'll take a drive to go play
in the snow.

If I drive 35 miles east. Sand dunes and ATVs
50 miles to the colorado river.

A 1 1/2 hour drive and I'm the the beauitful city of San Diego.
A walk on a pear to watch a surfer surf during a sun set.
Many, many hidden spots to watch the surfs crash on rock formations
Or I can just go to a popular beach and wacth other interesting formations.
The sky line is bueatiful at night. I love to drive into the down town area
late at night. At times It seems deserted. But drive a couple of blocks
its party central

[newlifeinchrist]

I live in the great plains, pretty flat around here, trees are few and far between 200 years ago they made houses out of the most abundent matieral available...sod check out these sites...http://www.usgennet.org/usa/sd/state/ that's my state I live in brown county it was founded by the railroads that ran through here check out http://www.aberdeen.sd.us/ for my town

[Karl]

DangerousDan and nutz,

Thanks for your posts, I read them while I was listening to U2 - (I still haven't found what I'm looking for) it was a sureal experience that I recommend. Really like going on a journey. This could be a great thread - we could read it like a book, some sort of adventure that keeps sending you to another part of the world. Already I like the sound of all that space out there.
A man could grow tall there, huh?
Bet you both get some spectacular night skies? Stars. Must be amazing.
I swear, I was out there for a while.

Karl

[Karl]

Thanks newlifeinchrist, didn't see you there.
Karl

[Dan]

Oh, don't get me going on the night skies Karl... The U2 catalogue isn't large enough yet.
Being as our town isn't very large, the light pollution at night is minimal, even if standing in my back yard. A ten minute drive gets me away to total absence of any city lights.

Winter is the best time for star and sky viewing. Something about the clear and crisp air. It routinely gets to 40 below zero here in the deep winter months. Minus 40 is where the fahrenheit and celcius temperature scales meet, by the way.

Some nights, the starlight is enough to read by, I swear.

Then, of course, there's the Northern Lights, the aurora borealis.
I don't know where exactly you live in England, but I imagine the northern part of it must be a place to see what the aboriginal people here call the Sky Dancers.

[GoldenGutters]

Imagine a subdivision that goes on as far as the eye can see, and when you reach the edge, thats where they're bulldozin' more open spaces and building MORE f 'en homes. Alas, the weather is damn near perfect. Winter, as the rest of the country knows it, doesn't exsist i.e. the last time it snowed was in 1976.Thunder and lightening is a once every other year occurance, otherwise it's just rain. And our summers are truly spectacular with little humidity. It's probably why everyone moves here, and we've got the highest population of any state. In other words California, specifically northern CA near Berkley and San Francisco.


:sunani

[Karl]

I like the dawn best.
I sit here at the open windows and listen to the rooks and crows across the fields. There's often a mist first thing, and a strange stillness that's almost breathless.
Then the sun starts to light up the sky and I can go to sleep.

Karl :sleeping:

[mackat]

right now , in my office,i am looking at the crystal river, the big elk herd which used to share our job site has moved on up as the mt snows melt...
up river, Mt Sopris looks like one of those massive solo volcanos of the NW USA.

my home in th 'vortex' sits under three 14000ft peaks of the Sangre de Cristo range, looks over a thousand plus sq miles of stark high valley. i can see the san juans across that valley -some 50 miles away. No power lines there- [i do th solar /wind power thing] my morning commute -around 4 miles of dirt rd, is often held up by a huge elk herd....my bike n i shadow race coyotes and pronghorn....i've seen eagles do in- air combat; in air mating flights....
morning meditation has seen adolescent bluebirds all lined up next to me.
and everyone tells me only hawaii can come close in sunset skytimes.....