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skcreidc
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Registered: 08/16/10
Posts: 1590
Loc: San Diego CA
Now THAT'S a back yard! A great view, no weeding or mowing of the lawn; and watering is fully automated. Looks like you got some bouldering spots too. Very nice!
The second to last photo was taken 20 yard from my back porch. What you don't see is we run a campground and there is quite a bit of mowing, watering, weeding.
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finallyME
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Registered: 09/24/07
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Loc: Utah
If you look out my backyard, you see a neighborhood with houses and mountains in the background. But, here is a look at some of the mountains close by.
This is about 2 miles from my house. Taken this fall.
This one is in the same range, but different canyon. This was taken spring of '10.
This one is on the other side of the valley. If you look through the canyon in the background, you see a distant peak. That peak is right in front of my small city. In fact, it is close to the white peak, same range, that is in the picture above with the cows. This spot is about 20 miles from my house. This is also taken spring of '10
Here I am in the same range, but different canyon. I am looking at the highest peak in my county, 11,000 ft or so. This is the same canyon, but I am looking toward the valley with the city that I live in. You can see the city, if you know where to look. In other words, I can see my house from here (with magnification ).
Edited by finallyME (12/10/1204:51 PM)
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Brotherbob12
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Registered: 04/05/04
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Loc: Sweden
Those pictures are great FinallyMe!
Here are some pictures I have taken different time of year. They are from within a cricle of 20 miles from our home in Örnsköldsvik Sweden (High Coast area).
High Coast National Park in December
The taiga in February
My wife getting out of the tent a sunny morning in March.
rodwha
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Registered: 06/25/11
Posts: 131
Loc: Texas...for now
Nice pics everyone! It certainly makes me want to leave this drab neighborhood where everyone is an arms tech away. We don't even have a yard to speak of. And this is a nice and new neighborhood.
I'm certainly glad we aren't paying the mortgage! We want to leave, and not just the neighborhood! Texas has some nice spots, but overall it's just not for us. I've had some great times, but I think they'd be greater if they were 7,000 ft higher up!
I thought that northern New Mexico might be what I needed, and then ran around northern Arizona. Wow!
But I think Colorado will always hold my heart. I moved there in elementary (3 rd grade) and had come from right here where I'm at (Texas), and I was completely amazed! The deer here aren't much bigger than a dog with long legs. But up there I saw huge mule deer often enough I could have named them.
One of these days I'll post some nice pics of my back yard too... (day dreaming face)
Edited by rodwha (12/11/1201:22 AM)
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finallyME
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Loc: Utah
I graduated college in Texas and got my first job out here in Utah. My wife keeps saying she wants to move back (her family lives there) but I say "No Way, I need mountains". Of course, the fact that my job is here is the main reason we are here.
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Most of these were taken within 30 or less miles of where I live. Lots of them were taken on or near the Buffalo River NP.
Two or three are in my actual back yard (I'm wearing a hunter orange jacket in one of those).
There is also a pic of the big pyramid at Cohokia in Illinois, two or three taken around Dunn's Falls in Jamaica, and one of a small creek taken in the Yucatan near Progresso, Mexico. They can't count as my backyard, but they're all good places to visit
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