December Daily: beautiful sights

[resonant]

29 -- mecurtin, What is the most beautiful sight you see outside on a regular basis? Can be a building, landscape, plant, animal, artwork, people playing, whatever.

The first thing you have to know is that our city in Illinois was flat, flat, flat. It was so flat that when I first drove up to meet the spouse there, if I stopped paying attention to the landscape, I would begin to feel as though I was driving on an impossibly long bridge over a lake or something -- water was the only thing in my experience that was that flat.

But now I live in the part of the Midwest that somehow escaped being scraped down by glaciers, and so there are hills.

So the most beautiful thing I see outside is some broad, unexpected, ridiculously scenic view. Like, I walk out the door of the Farm and Fleet and I can look out over rolling hills, dun-colored at this time of year and dotted with black and white cows and textured with bare cornfields, and as I gradually turn my head, the brick buildings of the tiny university come into view with the sunset on them. It's like living in a jigsaw puzzle.






30 -- china_shop, "Your favourite book you read this year."
31 -- wolfshark, "what is your favorite story to reread of your own stuff? what was your favorite story to write?"

Comments

Drumlins for the win

[jesse_the_k]

Let's here it for the unsung, the underappreciates, the UNGLACIATED Upper Midwest.

[flamingsword]

That does sound ridiculously picturesque. I am from West Virginia, up in the Northern panhandle, and the hills and ridges, covered bridges and giant massive trees are just so accidentally scenic that you want to be able to photograph them with something better than your phone. It makes you want to be a good photographer just to document how ridiculous the world is.

And now I live outside Dallas, where I literally have to laugh at what they call trees. It's not very pretty country around here, except during the spring wildflower blooms. I think that may be part of the reason there are relatively few camera shops here. Not enough inspiration.

[norsellie]

That sounds lovely. ♥