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Last post Author Topic: Show us the View Outside Your Window  (Read 550513 times)

tomos

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #50 on: August 28, 2008, 04:37 PM »
I've been meaning to post here for a while
but seeing this reh outside my window today prompted me to finally post (I think they're called "roe" deer in english?) *

aP8280045m.jpgShow us the View Outside Your Window

here's what I usually look at when I take a mini-break from computer
(weeping willow I think, looks great in the wind esp)
aP7169838cropM.jpgShow us the View Outside Your Window

there's loads of suburban style houses too but I wont show you those  :P
Re people being envious of country views I was in town (pop.100,000) last night and was wondering a bit about living on the land ...
Can be too quiet for my taste sometimes

* that was taken with a 3x zoom only so it was quite close - they're tiny deer really, but when they go they could be African antelopes - springing in the air and somehow they seem a lot bigger cause of the power/strength they have

Edit/ from those pictures it could be lots of places but just for the record I'm on northern edge of the Pfälzer Wald in Germany
Tom
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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #51 on: August 28, 2008, 05:21 PM »
I was hurtling (as in moving very quickly) down a hill on a country road a couple of weeks ago and a deer kept pace with me for about 10 seconds before bounding into the bushes on the side of the road. Scared the snot out of me, actually! Deer here (Vancouver Island, Canada) are fairly large animals - really make a mess out of a car if you hit one - and I didn't fancy having it knock me off my bike.

Lovely photos, BTW Tom. Olympus 5050 by chance  :D

tomos

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #52 on: August 29, 2008, 02:07 AM »
Lovely photos, BTW Tom. Olympus 5050 by chance  :D

thanks, and, close - 5060 :) still chugging away in spite of being dropped on the floor for a second time recently :-[
Tom

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #53 on: August 29, 2008, 02:12 AM »
Can I cheat and use a photograph of from the window of apartment I stayed in on a skiing holiday earlier this year?

Hopefully I can get this picture to display!

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #54 on: August 29, 2008, 07:51 AM »
thanks, and, close - 5060

Doh! I was going to go with that, too  ;D

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #55 on: August 29, 2008, 07:52 AM »
Very nice, dluby  :Thmbsup: Where's that then? I could guess, but there are so many candidates!

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #56 on: August 29, 2008, 08:05 AM »
Its a lovely French town (or maybe village) called Samoens near the Swiss border.

Darwin

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #57 on: August 29, 2008, 10:06 AM »
Dang! And I was guessing Switzerland or Austria! Anyway, thanks for sharing the picture and lettings us know - I trust you had a good time!

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #58 on: August 29, 2008, 09:41 PM »
They look posed because I watched baby graze over to mother and when they were close, I smacked the window.

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Me, Ambivalent? Well, yes and no.....

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #59 on: August 30, 2008, 01:06 AM »
Screenshot - 8_29_2008 , 11_04_04 PM.png

My front yard thanks to our friends at google.  Looks like it was trash day too. ;-)

I don't think my neighbor would approve of my taking a picture of the side of his house (all my window sees).
-No one instrument is more important than the other.  All are needed for the band to play.

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #60 on: August 30, 2008, 05:02 AM »
In summer - Winter is dusty and dirty here! And the grass 'dies'...

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #61 on: August 30, 2008, 08:47 AM »
In summer - Winter is dusty and dirty here! And the grass 'dies'...


What bird is that?

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #62 on: August 30, 2008, 08:59 AM »

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #63 on: August 30, 2008, 09:50 AM »
The clivias are attractive, I think the closest we come to those here, in Canada, is the daffodil.

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #64 on: August 30, 2008, 10:32 AM »
I have the best view EVER
Stop mousering people so much - Mouser

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #65 on: August 30, 2008, 11:43 AM »
Nice, p3lb0x! A blank slate onto which you can project whatever you want! The possibilities are limitless...  ;)

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #66 on: August 30, 2008, 11:04 PM »
Greetings from Kalorama, location in UICBM, (Universal Intercontinental Ballistic Missile), format: S37.81836 E145.36428

View from my study when not obscured by Police helicopters  :D

Not in any of the pictures but Melbourne is around to the left approx. 55km away.

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #67 on: August 31, 2008, 02:30 AM »
Hornbill

Yes the Grey Hornbill, but it's more brown! They make a strange whistling sound! That pic is the view from my Bathroom door into a courtyard....

The Clivias bloom in late Winter - a bit of colour in our dry rainless Winter!

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #68 on: August 31, 2008, 02:50 AM »
That pic is the view from my Bathroom door into a courtyard....

CleverCat,
Are you saying that your bathroom exits to a courtyard?
Actually, even if it's just a window that opens to the courtyard, how very, very nice!
-Sarah

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #69 on: August 31, 2008, 08:35 AM »
Yep it's a door to my little courtyard - a real sun trap for some....ahem.... skinny sun bathing after my shower!  ;D

You can see the wall round courtyard from here..

Mum's just taken more - watch this space!

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #70 on: August 31, 2008, 09:06 AM »
More pics... The second one is the view from lounge of our Lemon Tree which was grafted with an orange originally, and when frost (yes we do get frost sometimes) damaged it, it grew from below graft and now we have Loranges!  ;D They taste like cross between a Lemon & Orange and are orange in colour....  :o

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #71 on: August 31, 2008, 09:10 AM »
Courtyard...

With a bowl of 'Winter Banana' Apples! From our tree - yep they are called Winter Banana!  :D

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #72 on: August 31, 2008, 10:47 AM »
skinny sun bathing after my shower! ...watch this space!

Ohhh, well, if you insist   :)

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #73 on: August 31, 2008, 02:03 PM »
!!!
CleverCat, thanks for posting these! These views are so inspiring. I love the bricks, too...we don't have them in California, and so the architecture here looks rather flat and uninteresting, in general.

4wd, your photos are awesome, too. I especially like the one showing the lights at night.

It's fun to see all these different places!
-Sarah

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Re: Show us the View Outside Your Window
« Reply #74 on: September 01, 2008, 12:45 AM »
I've noticed that on programmes like Renovate My Family & Extreme Makeover Home Edition. We don't build houses with wood here - too many termites maybe?  ;D

We owned the whole 1/2 acre then sub-divided and I designed this house for my Disability needs as the front house was becoming a problem for me! now Mum can leave me for a day if necessary and I can cope. We are down a 30 metre pan handle - nice and private...

It's a loooong trot up to front gate!  ;D
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