Standing on my back deck, I can turn 180 degrees and everywhere I look I can see these lumpy mountaintops. Standing on my front porch and turning 180 degrees I can see the same thing. I'm surrounded by an undulating landscape. If I ever move, this is what I will miss the most.(the white truck is excluded from sights I will miss)
What a wonderful mountainy view! For some reason I didn't imagine you had mountains. Mountains always seem so romantic to us up here in the flat midwest.
ReplyDeleteIt IS a beautiful view!! Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteStevie, the view is so lovely. How wonderful for you to be able to sit on your deck taking it all in.
ReplyDeleteI make several trips a year to the Smoky Mountains.....
ReplyDelete( my second home away from home, Nashville being the first)
Going I'59 north...I am always glad to get to Birmingham as I start to see The Appalachian Mountain Chain ! Great view.. !
Ladies, I do love my mountains. But to be percise, these are just small mountains. Red Mountain located just blocks to the south of downtown Birmingham is the end of the Appalachian chain. Drive south for about one hour and all you have is rolling hills, one more hour south and everything is flat. Alabama has a number of topographical differences depending the area you are in. We extend from coastal Gulf of Mexico to the Appalachian Mountains in the northeast. It is a beautiful state.
ReplyDeleteI love the mountains. It would be so soul enriching to be able to do as you do, walk out the door and see them. Like many people that crave the beach and the ocean I crave the mountains.
ReplyDeleteHow pretty, and it's in the winter too! It must be spectacular in the other seasons. Wow. I would never move. That was a nice post. Thanks! ♥ ∞
ReplyDeleteAhhh, hills and mountains. We do so miss an interesting landscape...those "undulating hills" and tall, towering trees...these poor native Texans don't really know what their missing by not experiencing the loveliness seen in those foothills in Alabama!
ReplyDeleteFor now, we'll be thankful for the scrubby liveoaks and amazing sunsets (visible because there are no hills), and look forward to drinking in the green hills on our next trip back....
What a beautiful view! Alabama really is a beautiful state--very diverse.
ReplyDeleteJust lovely...I'm jealous! Trade you a little snow for a little mountain!
ReplyDeleteMaybe it got chilly enough for your squirrel to hibernate!
It's the absence of houses in all those directions that looks so good to me! I love the mountains too, but I love the ocean so much I think I could never move far from it.
ReplyDeleteWell, Stevie, now I have a mouse in snack cupboard. I had to throw out everything, scrub and sanitize the darn thing, and now we've got decon sitting in an empty cupboard. After we don't see any evidence for a week or so, I'll sanitize the whole thing again, and we will seal up the hole he chewed with steel wool, and patch it (he actually followed an electrical line up the wall, and chewed into the cupboard)and then sanitize the whole cupboard again. Maybe at that point, I'll be able to convince myself to use the darn thing again.
ReplyDeleteI think we should do haiku about rodents.
PS nice view. I'm just kind of freaked out about the mouse.
That's just lovely. It would be very comforting to see that view daily.
ReplyDeleteBetsy, my squirrel is hibernating! I paid to have a professional come get him out and the stupid squirrel isn't making a move. Uggggghhhh!
ReplyDeleteDebby, I know how you feel EXACTLY! At least you won't have to paid $XXX to get rid of it! I still have noodles in my freezer from the last time I had a mouse in the pantry and moved all the perishables to the refrigerator. Please compose a rodent haiku. I want to read that! It might make us feel better!!
Gorgeous pictures, and I love the image of the royal jewels. I was taken to see the crown jewels in London as a tot and remember being transfixed.
ReplyDeleteI'm trying to find a link I thought you might like today, but I can't get it to work. :(
I was here earlier today enjoying the view - I was so transfixed I forgot to leave a comment. It's dark now and time to go home, so I'm leaving my comment now: lovely view! That white truck is such a camera hog!
ReplyDeleteIts nice that you are comfortable with your surroundings Steviewren. So your squirrel has made itself at home huh? Sounds like you don't really care? - Dave
ReplyDeleteSuch a breathtaking shot.
ReplyDeleteStevie, this view is gorgeous - I bet it's absolutely stunning in the summer. Ah, to have a place to spread out. I'm cramped between two huge houses here in NY.
ReplyDeleteHow inspiring a view is that?! Incredible. That would get me up and singing in the morning!
ReplyDeleteNice view you have Stevie!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to commentabout the MoMa visit post above but blogger would not let me -- it is acting funny tonight. Glad your DIL is having a good time! It's too bad she missed seeing Van Gogh's "Starry Night" which is part of the MoMa collection as it is in the special exhibit in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam until June.
Pat, she was really disappointed to find that it wasn't on display. Maybe she will have another chance to see it another trip.
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