The intersection of art and nature.

papa tiger said:
Maybe 2 out of a million actually love to live the Nature B.S.
The rest of it is total crap. Uncomfortable always, at natures risk, of course.
See, total ****! The rest of nature is total hell. Want to enjoy misery?
Well just enjoy the spring floods too. Look at a beautiful winter scene and
realize the complications one has to endure to go to the Doc or Wal-Mart.

AC the Earth at 78F. tops summer and 55 F. lows winter. yea beautiful.

You want snow order it have a couple semi's blown on your place around dinner time.
Ya want a Tornado have a bulldozer stop buy. Ya want a spring flood have the city open
the fire hydrant and drown your ***.
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Or you could just spend an occasional weekend at your mountain cabin.
 

papa tiger said:
Maybe 2 out of a million actually love to live the Nature B.S.
The rest of it is total crap. Uncomfortable always, at natures risk
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Yes
Not many are willing
and those that are, do suffer some


I found it worth the risk and misery

Seeing the cabin come into view after a long trek in the ice and snow, and temps so low a slight breeze will rip yer face off
It's a relief and comfort beyond words

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Of course, coming in from that cold
and warming by the fire
is a wonderfully simple pleasure, unknown by the typical lay-z-boy jockey

I'll take it

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Gary O' said:
Yes
Not many are willing
and those that are, do suffer some


I found it worth the risk and misery

Seeing the cabin come into view after a long trek in the ice and snow, and temps so low a slight breeze will rip yer face off
It's a relief and comfort beyond words

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Of course, coming in from that cold
and warming by the fire
is a wonderfully simple pleasure, unknown by the typical lay-z-boy jockey

I'll take it

View attachment 370287
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LOL @ " lay-z-boy jockey". dhUOuPYZcZvGXGxpJZZV.gif
 
Gary O' said:
Yes
Not many are willing
and those that are, do suffer some


I found it worth the risk and misery

Seeing the cabin come into view after a long trek in the ice and snow, and temps so low a slight breeze will rip yer face off
It's a relief and comfort beyond words

View attachment 370286

Of course, coming in from that cold
and warming by the fire
is a wonderfully simple pleasure, unknown by the typical lay-z-boy jockey

I'll take it

View attachment 370287
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lay-z-boy jockey dhUOuPYZcZvGXGxpJZZV.gif
 
Gary O' said:
The thing about nature's art
It's totally unpredictable

It will halt you in your busy tracks
and give pause

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The effects of shooting into the sun have drawn me for quite a while. They don't always come out perfectly but every now and then they exceed expectations.

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Living in the mountains taught me much

Yes, I got busy with the Nikon
That was fun, capturing nature while it let me

But
Putting the camera down, and just taking it all in,
was quite the reward of being there

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One of the greatest moments I've come to savor
was when the mournful wails of the coyotes would ride on the rays of a full moon thru the pines

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These scenes turned me to God

and as I took note of the seasons, and their miracles, I got serious with my search for what brought all this about


We had this meadow

Not a whole lot grew there

Winter made it take on a scene of Siberian like desolation

Nothing to stem the wind, so even snow blew away

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But, one late spring, I noticed a bit of color out of the corner of my eye

And there was this tiny flower
struggling thru the pumice from Mt Mazama eons ago

Quite the effort
gleaning the scant nourishment
reaching to the sun

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Many lessons in nature
Many blessings

They can easily be missed

" I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
Thoreau
 
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Lots of critters in the mountains
Bear
Big cats
Wolves
and my beloved coyotes, and their eerie songs of an evening

But, the deer and their quiet grace stole my heart

I hunted them for years
to put food on the table

No longer care to do that

I learned to look forward to their spring migration back to out mountain

The mule deer are huge
And plentiful

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But
the town deer here are the tiny blacktail
and are hard to successfully hunt
as they tend to crawl thru the brush

One day I saw what I first thought to be an elk
just out of town

But, it was a huge trophy mulie


Hunkered down, under the overpass, calmlywatching traffic go by

Had to get a shot

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OK
I've polluted this wonderful thread enough
 
Gary O' said:
Lots of critters in the mountains
Bear
Big cats
Wolves
and my beloved coyotes, and their eerie songs of an evening

But, the deer and their quiet grace stole my heart

I hunted them for years
to put food on the table

No longer care to do that

I learned to look forward to their spring migration back to out mountain

The mule deer are huge
And plentiful

View attachment 370675

But
the town deer here are the tiny blacktail
and are hard to successfully hunt
as they tend to crawl thru the brush

One day I saw what I first thought to be an elk
just out of town

But, it was a huge trophy mulie


Hunkered down, under the overpass, calmlywatching traffic go by

Had to get a shot

View attachment 370674


OK
I've polluted this wonderful thread enough
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Doubt there'll be any complaints, certainly not from me.
 
Gary O' said:
The mule deer are huge
And plentiful

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Along with White Tails, we used to see quite a few Mule Deer wandered up our short gravel driveway. Neighbors have pastures downslope and to the east of us. But for the last 15 years or so, when any deer get near our fences or gate, they're the WTs. Don't even see the MDs on those pastures anymore. In our general area we're more likely to see a few elk in some spot than a MD.

Over time, some wildlife species don't actually disappear but fluctuate... come and go in our immediate vicinity, as is the case with coyotes, eagles, and herons. They shift around within our general area.
 
JBR said:
Along with White Tails, we used to see quite a few Mule Deer wandered up our short gravel driveway. Neighbors have pastures downslope and to the east of us. But for the last 15 years or so, when any deer get near our fences or gate, they're the WTs. Don't even see the MDs on those pastures anymore. In our general area we're more likely to see a few elk in some spot than a MD.

Over time, some wildlife species don't actually disappear but fluctuate... come and go in our immediate vicinity, as is the case with coyotes, eagles, and herons. They shift around within our general area.
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I have noticed and enjoyed the more long term changes in our forest. Both plant/tree life and the different animals that come for a season or two, and move on. We have had geese stop at our pond for awhile, and beavers live in our creek and move on. The changing landscape is a real joy to see morph/or not see morph when it really is. :)
 

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