What's it like where you live?

[Jst1mr]

I drive 50+ miles to work every day, only about 5 on a state highway, otherwise all county roads. Takes less than 55 minutes. Typical drive encounters deer, eagles, turkeys, but also occasional wolves, fishers, and bobcats. Could stop and fish at any of several clear blue lakes along the way. Lots of forest and occasional farms. I encounter exactly one stoplight on this daily journey. Many might question the weather, but I am a full blown "theater of the seasons" type and love it all. Venison, Ruffed Grouse and fish fill the freezer and shelves are loaded with preserved garden fare, you can shoot from the back porch to your hearts content, and get some of the world's best beer and cheese just down the street...what's not to love?

 

[BarbC]

Living in the lower Hudson Valley

Are you near Bear Mountain?

 

[ladder13]

Are you near Bear Mountain?

10 miles east of there, Barb.

 

[dennis40x]

I live within walking distance but then you better really like to walk and I do mean walk.

 

[perrazi]

not much to see in southern iowa. snow in the winter,corn and soybeans in the summer and the occasional hog production facility in the country. btw, we have surpassed out record for number of days with 5inches or more of snow on the ground. something like 70 odd days and counting.

 

[Bullseye 2620]

Virginia looks exactly the same to me, whether it be Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, etc.

I used to live in Northern Virginia, which I'm thankful I no longer do. The place is a giant strip mall, where a five mile drive takes 30 minutes, and an acre of land costs $500,000.

None of those places are the real Virginia. This is the real Virginia--Floyd County, AKA God's Country:

Bullseye

 

[CH47gunner]

I live about six miles inland from Monterey Bay. Here are a couple of local shots.
For those of you who are recently weather challenged, these were mostly taken last weekend.

Bruce

The Boardwalk, remember the Big Dipper (roller coaster) from one of the Dirty Harry movies.

Steamers Lane (taken from same location as photo above)

Retired Lighthouse & Surf Museum (same location)

 

[Iggy]

Nuthin' but miles and miles of miles and miles of nuthin' but miles and miles.............

The current weather pattern is taking all of the snow south and east of us so there ain't even any snow on the ground.

 

[stonehorses]

Floyd County Virginia

I also live in "God's Country".
First up is Buffalo Mountain/Knob, elevation 3090'. It was part of a land grant given to Lighthorse Harry Lee, father to Robert E. Lee.
Next is Mabry Mill located at MP 176 on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The others are of our horses and dogs during this winter's snowy weather. We've received more snow than Anchorage Alaska!

 

[jkc]

Within an hours drive, I can leave lush Sonoran desert, with thick stands of Saguaros, prickly pear, cholla and other Dr.Seuss desert plants, get to the snowline of several peaks clad with ponderosa pine and oaks, find excellent deer, bear, desert bighorn sheep and mountain lion habitat, whitewater canoeing, lots of legally designated Wilderness, five good size lakes, spectacular views of distant mountains (100 mile visibililty is not uncommon), and still enjoy the amenities offered by a big city --- I can take the light rail to world-class museums, exposition, and concert venues. You wouldn't like it here, don't come...

 

[feralmerril]

jkc, I heard august is a good time to come?

 

[cass]

doublesharp, is my mind going, or is one of those pictures the same shot of one you posted with a tractor in it ( with a flat). I've been down that road several years ago.

 

[wyo-man]

One of the biggest attraction near me is:
http://www.bbhc.org

The other:
Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

wyo-man

 

[CW Spook]

Corn and beans, beans and corn...as far as the eye can see. I get uncomfortable if I'm more than 5 or 10 minutes from being able to see a green horizon. I can stand in the little pioneer cemetery where my wife and I will eventually rest and all I can see is farmland that's been in my family since 1852. I love visiting all parts of this wonderful country and abroad, but I was born here (the first generation in 350 years who wasn't born on a farm), and I'm perfectly content to know I'll end up next to my great-great grandfather and great-great grandmother whose pictures hang in our guest bedroom.

 

[broggie]

Bullseye & Stonehorses,
From 1981-2005 I lived at the northern end of that "God's Country" of which you speak....right smack dab in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley (Staunton area). I'm itchin' to get back!!! broggie

 

[jkc]

"jkc, I heard august is a good time to come?"

Merril, you heard right! Anyone contemplating a move to metro Phoenix really ought to plan on spending at least a week or so here in August. In August, you'll find that it's not uncommon to have days on end with high temps above 110 degrees, with nighttime temps falling into the high 90's. In August, the famously "dry" heat isn't so dry, with humidity levels as much as 20-30%, which may sound pretty tame to some, but is off the "miserable" chart here. You will learn that milk can spoil on your way home from the market, ammo can become dangerous on your drive to the range, oven mitts and welders gloves are useful outside the kitchen or shop, and that there's a window of about ten minutes between tanning and incineration. You'll learn that finding a parking space in the shade is probably worth a walk of several hundred yards across a waffle-iron parking lot, as the lesser of evils. You may be lucky enough to experience one of our "haboob" dust storms, which is the desert version of a "whiteout" but with grit. Or, maybe a "monsoon season" thunderstorm, with traffic-crippling street flooding, collisions, and "microburst" wind gusts that destroy structures you might have thought to be indestructible. Yep, if you're thinking about moving to AZ, please spend August here first.

 

[stonehorses]

Bullseye & Stonehorses,
From 1981-2005 I lived at the northern end of that "God's Country" of which you speak....right smack dab in the middle of the Shenandoah Valley (Staunton area). I'm itchin' to get back!!! broggie

broggie you may want to wait until June...the snow may be gone by then!

 

[feralmerril]

jkc, know what you mean! Years ago I had to change planes in phonex and I have seen more comfortable saunas and jaquezes. UNBELIVEABLE!

 

[Mickey D]

Well I'm on the Carquinez Straights between San Pablo bay and Suisun Bay, SF bay area.
Great little river town with a load of ship building history through the 1800s. Also home of the Benicia Arsenal.

Wyatt, if you are ever down this way, look me up!

 

[jkc]

Mickey D,
Are you acquainted with Jack London's writings of and about SF Bay, "Tales of the Fish Patrol" and etc.? If not, find and enjoy them...

jkc