Nature Pics

Post by **elfshadow** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 1:29 am

Wow!!! Those nebulas are awesome!!!

And Iavas' pictures are exquisite, Eru! He has a wonderful gift.

Picture I took at the Badlands this summer:

Post by **Erunáme** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:22 pm

Castlewellan Loch, Northern Ireland

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 9:25 pm

That's just gorgeous, Eru. So atmospheric, with the glassy water, the dark rocks, and the brooding sky.

It reminds me of one of my son's first computer art images:

though, being real, Iavas's is better.

To atone for posting the unreal, here's a real photo (not one I took):

Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:09 pm

Beautiful, all.

I'm late today. Here's a sunset at the Grand Tetons.

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 10:44 pm

I saw almost exactly that view last August, though not at sunset, unfortunately.

Beautiful.

Post by **truehobbit** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:48 pm

Beautiful pics, all!

Fitting with the sunsets, here's the pic Sassy asked me to post a few days ago - a sunset over the clouds (taken from the plane on going home from my first moot two and a half years ago).

Post by **Ethel** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:55 am

Last year's first snowfall, from my back door:

We've had no snow at all this year, and it's so dreary. It has been bitterly cold, but that's no fun without snow.

Post by **truehobbit** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 3:45 am

Didn't you have that in your sig on TORC, Ethel? Looks familiar.

A real idyll!

Post by **Ethel** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:01 am

truehobbit wrote:Didn't you have that in your sig on TORC, Ethel? Looks familiar.

I did, briefly. Fancy you remembering that! I do love deer. They may eat all the bark off the trees but... they're so pretty.

Post by **truehobbit** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 4:33 am

I remember, because then, too, I was thrilled with how idyllic it is!

Fri Dec 09, 2005 7:42 pm

This picture is in honor of Rodia:

Post by **truehobbit** » Fri Dec 09, 2005 11:58 pm

It's beautiful - what's Ro got to do with the pic, though?

Post by **Primula Baggins** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 1:40 am

Is it from the Polish mountains she linked to pictures of?

Sat Dec 10, 2005 3:22 am

Its from the Tatra Mountains in southern Poland. I'm not sure where the beautiful pictures that Ro posted were from, but they reminded me of what a beautiful country Poland is. My father's family lived outside of Krakow, a little north of this area. Unfortunately, so far as I am aware, other then the branch that came to the U.S before the war, the family no longer exists. Recent discussions here and particularly at board77 have brought these unknown and unknowable relatives of mine to the forefront of my thoughts, which is a good, though painful, thing.

Sorry to post such a serious thing in this this thread, to make up for it, I'll post an extra picture:

Post by **Ethel** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:10 am

Is there a protocol in this thread? Is one supposed to observe a certain rhythm? I have posted two pictures and I've felt like they might have been poor choices, or that it was a poor choice to do it at all. I do not wish to offend. I would like to know the rules, if there are any. I had the idea it was just about pretty pictures of nature, but I feel like I'm missing something.

Post by **Athrabeth** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:44 am

I think the only rule is "Submit pics of the natural world that make you sw00n in hopes of making others sw00n with you."

I think.

And your pics definitely qualify, Ethel!

Where I live, we too are both blessed and cursed by an abundance of deer. One day I'm screaming at them to get out of my garden, and the next, I'm picking apples off the tree to feed to a doe and her fawn. I'm hopeless.

This photo, unlike Ethel's, was not taken by me, but it looks so very much like the a great expanse of meadow bordered by woods that I drive by each morning on my way to work...........and yes, at times there ARE that many deer gathered in the rising mists.

Must be VERY tasty grass!

Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:49 am

Athrabeth wrote:I think the only rule is "Submit pics of the natural world that make you sw00n in hopes of making others sw00n with you."

That pretty much says it.

Ethel, your pictures have been wonderful.

Post by **Frelga** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 5:52 am

Well, if I'm breaking protocol I hope someone will tell me.

This is a picture of the Gergeti glacier and Kazbek mountain, in Caucasus mountain range. It's the setting of TOSIEF (the only story I ever finished).

V, my grandfather came from Warsaw.

Those b77 threads hit me hard, too, but I'm glad people are speaking out as they do. Lord Morningstar put up a great post, erudite as always, and Sister Magpie is an absolute dynamite.

Beautiful pictures, everybody.

Post by **Athrabeth** » Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:00 am

Frelga, it reminds me of Jackson's Weathertop.

And I'd love to read that story one day.

Voronwë, regarding your post about your family in Poland

........have you read "Everything Is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer?

Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:36 am

Frelga, I will go and check them out. I needed to back away for my own sanity, and before I said something that I regretted. And how can you be 'breaking protocol by posting a beautiful picture in a thread for beautiful pictures.

Ath, I have not read (or heard of) "Everything Is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer, but I will seek it out.