Where is your favorite place away from home to enjoy nature?
Every year I escape southern California and drive up to Paso Robles for a girls trip. The views are stunning and the morning walks are fresh and beautiful with birds, vineyards, and an occasional tarantula! This is the view from our patio. Hidden gem in the brown hills of California 💕
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Both places soothe my soul, but are not well suited for growing food.
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@shllnzl beautiful💕💕💕
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My favorite place in the world away from home is Maine. I bought a house there a few years ago but it needs a considerable amount of work done to it. Anyway it is swell enough to vacation in, a little more accommodations than a camp so it’s all good! It is where I long to be and hope to be able to garden there, raise chickens again (it’s been many years), and have some bees. The area is rich in community and I’ve met many wonderful people who are willing to let me call on them with questions with either. I’ll try to send a picture or two...
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Hi @shllnzl - Your 1st. photo looks almost identical to one of our neighbor's 10 acres,
except this little 5 acre forest's Evergreens grow more closer together. - When their trees were small, Cecil thinned-&-sold them as christmas trees. As they grew, he thinned-&-sold them as fireWood, plus it feeds his hearth as well. - Then he became a Mastergardner, & got goats, etc - that our kids learned with in our Unschooling... too he has a huge Veggie garden, plus just as huge a Berry-patch. --- Anyway, he has a little PARADISE right where he is at, as over yonder, as his family Awakens each day they are serenaded with the most gorgeous SUNRISE with Mr. Rainier close by. Mt. Rainier takes on a lovely pink glow just before the sun rises, with the brilliant colors changing moment by moment. It’s simply breathtaking. - There simply are no words for such majestic beauty. And that is their favorite place to be, right at home... This site's picture shows it well... http://www.altacrystalresort.com/activities/watching-the-sunrise-at-sunrise
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I have a lake and five acres in SW Florida where I love to plant flowers. The bouganvillia like more acid soil but they are managing in the sandy alkaline soil that is all over Florida. I bought calladiums from Happiness Farms in Lake Placid and they sent me boxes of bulbs. They have many different types on their web site. I love to sit on my porch and enjoy them.😎
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We go hunting on Public Land, we visit a local river or walk on the small trail in our small town
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I don't know if I can pick a favorite, but the first place that came to mind was Cowan's Gap
The picture is not too impressive, but it is lovely. Myself and a couple of my friends rented a the cabins a few years ago, and it is one of my best memories.
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@Katrina Looks like our hunting areas in Nevada and Utah. Very nice.
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Additionally (in our neck o' the woods) is Mt. Si https://www.pinterest.com/northbendwa0591/mt-si/ Often used by Fitness folk as incremental Training... for the Mt. Rainier summit. - A part of Mt. Si is "little Si" which is also an actual mountain http://www.mountsi.com/little-si/ and don't be fooled by their seeming 'small' size. Both, as you can see are pretty STEEP; not just by looking at either. - Oh yes, I went backpacking (with experienced Climbers), who assured me: "Hey, you're 1 healthy cookie. No big sweat. Just a little jaunt" - Um, 😯 ... lol
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If I lived in Washington State, I would be hanging out in the rainforests. They evoke a special mood in me.
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Well, @shllnzl - Yes, that's how you can tell a Native washingtonian, from a transplant, tho I have definitely been converted... The native makes a distinction between the Olympic peninsula rainforest, & the rest of Puget Sound. The transplants think "my god, the entire West-side is a perpetual... rainforest !" LOL
Trying to keep people out! of this state, (which worked before the advent of the internet), I fondly told outsiders: "Ok, understand 1 thing real good: our Rainy season starts at midnight Dec. 31, & it doesn't stop until the next 12/31. iow, It rains in Puget Sound every single day". 😉
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@rainbow I understand the rain thing. I spent 3 years in England, and even I got tired of the rain. Rain makes for beautiful plants though.
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Yes, I spent my first 7 years here, in Seattle, during which time I continued... working in ICU (harborview Burn & Trauma; plus served as 1 of the pioneers starting "advanced Homecare" in Wa. state). - iow, I spent a majority of my time Saving other people's lives. The last! thing I needed was to look out, or be outside in pouring... (seemingly Non-stop) rain. Arrgh!
I asked: when faithfully daily took my 5000 IU of D-3, Why at that time was I still doing the s.a.d (seasonal affective disorder) routine? - Obviously forgot that the darker the skin, the less vit. D you produce; hence you need to take more! D 3. (my dad was of Spanish origin.) Even outside... gardening with nary any clothes, Tested at a paltry 51. Above 60 is much healthier. - Those populations north of the equator incldg. therefore most Americans at 10 to 20 serum concentrations of 25(OH)D are acutely deficient ! ((reported in both nanomoles per liter (nmol/L) & nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL). *1 nmol/L = 0.4 ng/mL))
Thus physically, the reason why "Perpetual overcast & rain" do not bother me anymore, is because my D 3 level is now maintained healthily. And Germany & Puget Sound have enuf in common, like beautiful plants: so @shllnzl thank you so much for encouraging my continuing Rainbows discussion, for you realize that to me, & many passersby in the past it serves as another Favorite place to enjoy nature...
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Love all the beautiful pictures!!!!!’
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One of my favorite places to enjoy Nature is my maternal family farm. It is 500+ acres, has 300+ acres of forests, diverse wildlife, the highest and lowest point in the county, and more. I also enjoy walking around and being enamored by the diverse flora growing on the two acres my brother and I are leasing.
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Hi @Obiora E - you are so fortunate. Enjoy! 🤩
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Yes, very fortunate to have a place like that to call home. When I grew up I was outside in the woods all the time. It must have been amazing to have so much space, clean air, and nature to explore as a child...
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near almost any river, lake, or ocean that isn't too crowded.
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I live about 15 minutes from my favorite place in the world. Yachats, Oregon.
If I have to pick another place I would say... inside the earth anywhere (caves, lava tubes, underground rivers.) or any pioneer cemetery; the older and more remote the better!
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Or camping on the beach 💕
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@margeryrunyan i love Florida! Everyone thinks I’m crazy but I have family there and the sky is blue, I love thunder and lightening and humidity and the gulf coast beach sand is like confectioners sugar so clean, soft and white and the smell of flowers everywhere...
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@shllnzl and @rainbow I lived in bellingham for 1-1/2 years i loved going to the park by the fish hatchery it had bike trails and waterfalls swimming hole and it always amazed me how it all drowned out the city. and i loved the weather i got to where i could pretty much guess weather it was going to rain that day or not lol if it was cloudy in the morning we'd get sun in the afternoon if it was sunny in the morning it would rain in the afternoon. i love the high desert of Oregon, and Idaho mountains. I'm an Earthy type person did wildfires for 6 years and got to see some beautiful places
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isn't it Amazing how we are all so delightfully Unique in our own ways. You @Marjory Wildcraft favoring all displays of "water"; - while otoh I nearly drowned as a baby, plus had no awareness of "lake, river, or ocean" until came to America, where we lived merely 2 miles from the gulf of Mexico, where in utter amazement I yelled WHAT is that? lololol - and tho I did at last learn to swim 4 years ago at the YMCA, most likely I will always favor the Forests that we all loved....
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Anywhere we can go exploring! we love the mountains, Mogollon Rim, going through the trees, anyplace we can connect with nature really. These pictures are from traveling along the Mogollon Rim, where you can see everything from desert to mountains. It is absolutely stunning up there.
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@gardneto76 beautiful!!! Thx for sharing!
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yes, Yes, yes !!! - LOL There you go:
Germans r Nature-lovers, ( tho we do not worship it as some god). We simply Appreciate... nature's Beauty. So every little child learns LOTS of Nature songs; & even tho your two photos here are not like a typical German forest, - you know what's Funny: the very instant I saw your pictures, even tho now it is October, this song immediately (with Full orchestra surround sounds ) appeared in mind: " Komm, lieber Mai "
Komm, lieber Mai, und mache die Bäume wieder grün,
und laß uns an dem Bache die kleine Veilchen blühn!
Wie möchten wir so gerne ein Blümchen wieder sehn
ach, lieber Mai, wie gerne einmal spazieren gehn! "
This song is a pleading, Yearning for SPRING (lol), my all time Favorite season.
Thank you @gardneto76 for Reminding me,
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@rainbow do you mind doing a translation? I speak a very little bit of Deutsch/German, what I have been able to retain from my college class. I am interested to see how it translates to English. I know some things are very difficult to do this with. To explain my interest My ancestors are from Germany, which may help explain my love of nature.
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Sure, love to... "Come dear May"
Come, dear May, and make the trees green again,
And let the little violets Blossom by the brook!
How we'd like to see a little flower again,
Oh, dear May, how we'd like to even go for a walk.
All my life, often each day I continue Singing... all the 100's of songs I have sung thru the years:
German Folk songs, (performed with a children's choir in Europe), &
Christian songs while served as choir Director, & also in Handel's MESSIAH in a 100 voice choir
American musicals... in which I too participated in a soprano/solo role. -
Plus using Music in therapy helping yet more people. I LOVE Singing... one of my dearest passions....
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Here is another French song I too Dearly enjoy singing: ' Je suis enfant de Dieu '
Je suis enfant de Dieu et il m’a mis ici
Il m’a donné un bon foyer des parents si gentils.
Conduis-moi et marche avec moi sur le bon chemin;
Apprends-moi comment agir pour Le connaître enfin "
And yes, I sing it with the correct French Accent 🙂
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Were you to ask me "Name, or Sing your 24 Favorites",
Um, I'd say Honestly " Which 24 ? do you want to hear... " LOL
Because no matter what, I will ALWAYS Be Childlike... Naturally, I especially LOVE singing songs like " supercalifragilisticexpialidocious "
It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough, you'll always sound precocious
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle diddle, diddle um, diddle ay x4
Because I was afraid to speak When I was just a lad
Me father gave me nose a tweak And told me I was bad
But then one day I learned a word That saved me achin' nose
The biggest word you ever heard And this is how it goes, oh Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
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He traveled all around the world And everywhere he went
He'd use his word and all would say There goes a clever gent
When Dukes and Maharajahs Pass the time of day with me
I say me special word And then they ask me out to tea Oh! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Um diddle diddle, diddle um, diddle ay x2 ?
Now, you can say it backwards, which is docious-ali-expi-listic-fragi-cali-rupus
But that's going a bit too far, don't you think?
So when the cat has got your tongue There's no need for dismay
Just summon up this word And then you've got a lot to say
But better use it carefully Or it could change your life.... "
I usually Stopped there, LOL
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