BS: I see no ships.

Subject: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 08:57 PM

A ladies hairdressing salon has just opened right opposite my house. Now when I open the front door, the first thing I see are females walking around with towels on their heads.

What do you see?

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 09:28 PM

Mountains. And the ocean. Mountains in the ocean...

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 09:31 PM

Can I come and live with you?

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: mack/misophist
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 10:50 PM

cars, trucks, busses
dogs, pigeons

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Ebbie
Date: 23 Jan 04 - 11:00 PM

and eagles and ravens and bears and people walking by carrying musical instruments... And some don't walk by- they come in to play.

Sure, I Spy. It's a great place.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: LadyJean
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 12:26 AM

My building has a beautiful courtyard with a fountain. That's what I see when I look out my front door. Well, when I look out the door to my apartment, I see the elevator. It's a 1913 elevator. So that's not so bad.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: freda underhill
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 12:58 AM

through the filmy magenta curtains i see blue sky and trees, bushes, plants. I hear birds trilling, tweeting and warbling, and frogs croaking, and at evening, bats screeching.

inner sydney's a great place to live!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 06:19 AM

Trees, low hills. More trees. Sometimes a horseback rider (in warmer weather). At night, the coyotes flash by yelping- but I never see them.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Mooh
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 07:10 AM

The lonely picnic table almost burried in snow and a forlorn tent trailer, both waiting for the family noises to come outside, but making do with snow dusted cedars and the bleakest of skies. The garden sleeps.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 07:43 AM

When I open my door, I see the blue painted wall of our hallway!

When I go out the front of the building I see the gi-normous apartment block opposite & the first bit I see is the fence & treetops of the pool & garden, and on street level I also see a hairdressing salon. However, this one is very classy (it's a classy apartment block!!) - females do not wander around with their heads covered in towels, they all seem to be sitting under enormous hoods while their hair is drying.

If I step out the back I see the garbage bins & the back laneway (not always a pretty site!!)

Like my friend freda I also hear a frog in the garden downstairs, but I don't see the garden unless I step up to the window & look down. The garden also attracts a few discerning birds, some of whom chirp sweetly. It used to attract nasty pigeons & good riddance to them.

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Amos
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 08:47 AM

Quiet suburban street with high trees scattered about; to the West, a range of hills behind which is where they keep the sunsets. OUt the back a lovely cedarwood patio cover over a tiled L-shaped patio around a small lawn, a tall hedge, a Buddha, and a fig tree.

A

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 08:53 AM

Every morning, as soon as I wake up, before I see anything outside my house, I say sternly to myself,

"Right now!

Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down, Up, Down.

Now for the other eyelid!"

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Charley Noble
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 09:47 AM

I see, through the kitchen window, the extra large thermometer on our back porch post and it says "below zero" again.

Charley Noble in Maine

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 10:21 AM

Thankyou for the above. So far I will move in with Ebbie and have my holidays at Animaterra's, if that's ok with you?

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: kendall
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 01:08 PM

A beautiful 27 foot sailboat

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 24 Jan 04 - 04:35 PM

Ok Kendall can book me in for a weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Hrothgar
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 04:27 AM

A bloody tall hedge that needs trimimng,and I'm starting to feel guilty about it.

Them again, the neighbours probably want it to stay that way until I finish painting the house.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 04:43 AM

Out the back.......houses just like ours
Out the front......more houses just like ours. Not a whinge just a statement.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 06:28 AM

Hrothgar - surely you are not tempting fate again & resuming painting your house? Anyway, feeling guilty is not good for you - why not accept it's natural shape, there's nothing wrong with leaves & branches sticking out in all directions!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,Peter from Essex
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 06:32 AM

The first thing that I see on opening the door is my neighbour's cat after a second (or third) breakfast. Second thing is the rowan tree that I planted when I bought the house.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 06:43 AM

Reading what I wrote I sound most dissatisfied. Not so !!. There is trees, blue sky and my trusty shed etc......

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 06:58 AM

I Spy, you're welcome to spend your holidays here, but there's not much going on, other than trees... and hills...

And the Monday night contra dance!

Allison

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Les from Hull
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 05:02 PM

The busiest road in Hull. But beyond that a preserved lightship (built 1927), and beyond that, lots of small boats (it's Hull Marina). And beyond that - I see some ships - occassionaly, plying their trade on the River Humber.

Moving round a window I can see the top of the tower of Hull's 13th century Parish Church (the largest in England, depending on how you measure it).

Les

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Leadfingers
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:13 PM

Suburban West London- Still i suppose it COULD be worse.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:15 PM

Sure, LF!! It could be suburban West Bombay!

A

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 07:20 PM

Les if your 13th century parish church has a 13th century graveyard, then I am having a stopover at yours too, put kettle on please.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Justa Picker
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 08:00 PM

Shambles.......... still muttering.

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From: Mudlark
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:26 PM

Low hills, a valley and a high ridge, now going lush with spring green, the 1918 suspension bridge over the willow edged Estrella River (the border of my property), dramatic bare branches of my 80 yr old elms, occasionally some cows grazing in the valley. Usually a hummingbird madly fighting off it's brethern from the feeder, woodpeckers and chickadees in the elms, and a flock of purple finches pecking up bird seed on the ground, covey of quail in the distance.

A few mornings ago the road was flowing with sheep, bank to bank, like a river in full spate. They seemed to go on forever, but the flock finally came to an end, as the scruffy border collie passed, keeping them in tight formation, followed by the sheep herder, so lightly dressed his clothes looked like gauze, but wearing a high peaky woolen cap with a tassle on top. It was a sight to see.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Amos
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 09:38 PM

THere are millons of viewpoints to be had on planet Earth, and many of them have been enjoyed by generations, and some by only a priveleged view -- those, for example, who have gone over certain waterfalls, or trekked deep into unkjnown canyons, or high onto mountains where few go.

But tonight, I was thunderstruck by a color photo of a place I never thought I would see, nor thought any human would, really. The lander Opportunity has sent back the first images from the dark side of Mars. You can see the bones of the planet itself, apparently a strata of bedrock, sticking up through the layered red dust that is everywhere. It is a miraculous event -- tonight hundreds of thousands, millions of humans are passing around the first picture from the far side of Mars-- a territory never before seen directly from so close. And the time will come in the not too distant future when the boots of men will find their way into those canyons and see them first hand. And then, who knows...

But we surely do live in interesting times!


A

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 10:26 PM

I see a front yard with big birches and pines, a backyard with more big pines and birches, and a forest that goes for about ten acres back, some squirrels, the occasional rabbit, that sort of thing. And an awful lot of snow right now. The snow I could do without, but it won't last forever.

The Mars thing is very interesting. What I hope they find is evidence of a past civilization, but I sort of doubt they'll tell us about it if they do.

- LH

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Jan 04 - 11:34 PM

Fort Benning Military Reservation (across the highway).

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 05:52 AM

Amos,
Mars be great, but Audtralia has millions of acres of stuff almost indistinguishable from what we have seen of Mars so far. The most interesting thing for me is that, because NASA was trying to simulate Mars conditions and came to outback Australia, they have discovered new habitats outback in places so dry that it was thought that life could not survive...

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 07:38 AM

Two cars, a caravan, and a tree which still has Christmas lights in it.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 08:42 AM

The former southern fortification of my hometown now changed into a oblong park. A murmuring fountain, sometimes with little boys and their ships. A mighty oak with the ubiquitous squirrels. A childrens' playground with frolicking toddlers and watching grannies. Sometimes my neighbour is passing with his small dog Mäxchen (Little Max) yapping to send me its greetings.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Amos
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:08 AM

Robin:

I am sure Australia has it all over Mars; what I was stunned by is the reversal of scarcity. A very short while ago, no-one had ever seen the dark side of Mars; now, millions of people have (at least by photo).

A

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Les from Hull
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 06:16 PM

Sorry I Spy, the graveyard is now partly a carpark (it seems) and part a very nice urban space (sometimes used for morris dancing). There is another graveyard belonging to the church nearby (I could see it if I had a window in that direction) but that's a bit later.

They did dig up some early bodies elsewhere in the City and proved that syphillis was here before Columbus was reputed to have brought from over the water. Well, it was in Hull anyway!

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 07:57 PM

Oh well, I'll pop in for a cuppa and the pox. Then I'm off to Mudlarks, just to see a real live elm. I miss elms.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Jeri
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 08:31 PM

"Does my ash look big?" Yep. I have the biggest ash tree I've ever seen in my front yard. There's a small garden. I can see two houses across the country (just barely paved) road. The woman in the house across the street is a serious gardener, and has three gardens I can see from my house. One has a water feature, and in the summer, the sounds of tinkling water and bullfrogs are wonderful to go to sleep by. Out back, there's a bit of back yard, then a small run-off creeklet/ditch, then woods. Maple, oak, white birch, silver birch, aspen. Sometimes, I see deer or turkeys. Sometimes I hear owls. There's at least one pair of hummingbirds in the summer who are regular drinkerss at the garden 'bar', but there's a pair of cardinals around all the time. It snowed quite a while ago (a couple of weeks now?), but the frigid temperatures have kept the snow from melting, and there are animal tracks quilting the ground.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Metchosin
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:49 AM

From the front windows, to the south, the blue tarped roof of a small but noble cedar board and batten shed is mottled with green algae and clumps of decaying leaves and needles, awaiting a new metal roof, in lieu of the cedar shingles that have long since rotted away.

Over hanging the shed and arcing part way over the front of the house are the dripping winter bare branches of three massive, moss covered, big leaf maples, visited regularly by noisy flocks of gymnastic chickadees and ruby crowned kinglets. Hanging from the branches are pale gray lichens, like old men's beards and small vibrant green ferns festoon the crotch of every large branch and trunk.

To the left of the maples and a short way beyond is a small leaf littered, open patch of rain sogged duff, scattered with hummocks of sword fern, bent from a short lived rain soaked blanket of snow and foraged recently by a solitary grouse, as tame as a chicken. Graceful, swooping limbs of western red cedar, soft feathery hemlock and the rough furrowed trunks of Douglas fir, reveal fleeting glimpses through the mist, of a pale rainwashed winter sunset over Mt. Redflag, beyond the line of trees.   

To some this might seem idyllic, were it not for what has been squatting for almost two years in the middle of this wet, verdant splendor, in the small open patch.

A reminder of wishful projects postponed, cancelled or sometimes just forgotten; a pile of slender posts, like sharpened pencils awaiting the first day of school that never comes, a stack of summer tires and mag wheels, an old rusted blue frame of a tent trailer, project long forgotten by eldest daughter and a large grungy white tent, open at the end that faces the house. This affords me a view of what is left of my firewood supply and a heap of semi precious junk we have been collecting for 30 years, ruthless editing yet another dream. Good intentions hang in the air, like a fart in a bookstore.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,James
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 01:42 PM

Miles of Forest, The North Atlantic and a lot of wee islands..sea birds by the trillion and one lone Eagle who fancies Scrunchy..my cat. Life is Good

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Willie-O
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 08:35 PM

A medium-sized butternut tree on a sand berm that gives us some privacy from the road. Across the road there is a tipi (covered with some industrial fabric) and several other twigs and branches type structures in our neighbour's front yard. They aren't Indians or even hippies. They are Mormons. Go figure. Everyone needs a hobby. Spying on them is one of mine. The same may be true for them. (Don't get me wrong, we are friendly. But not quite friends)

W-O

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Les from Hull
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 10:02 PM

Well all that I could see before I can see now, but it's very much whiter!

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 10:42 PM

I used to live opposite the Boneyard, but now i live opposite Jacksons Super markit, [on Chants Ave, Hull].

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Donuel
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 10:55 PM

that beats razor wire

I see 300 ft trees now coated in ice.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Mudlark
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 03:00 AM

Guest, I Spy...I have friends in France who now have young groves of elm children from my trees, the only elms in/around Paris, so they tell me. Come in the summer and I'll give you some seedlings. They are surprisingly hardy if you get the entire tap root. The seeds are covered in a papery shell and in another 2-3 wks the ground will be covered...looks a lot like snur.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: bbc
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 06:40 AM

Corn fields & mountains, but not many cars--pretty nice!

bbc

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 06:46 AM

Snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow, oh and snow

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 07:26 AM

Snor, snor thick thick snor.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: GUEST,I.Spy
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 06:52 PM

I am going to have my shoes resoled at this rate.

So, I think I will have late breakfast at Willie-O's to catch the neighbours in the teepee. Love an unusual garden structure, we need more of them.

Then Metchosin's for the chickadees and James for the eagle.

Tree time at Donuel's and Jeri's.......aspen, deer, birch,turkey,my cup runneth over guys.

Early evening drinks at bbc's, for my cornfield and mountain fix.

Mudlark, you sound generous of spirit. I like to think of your saplings in Paris, perfect picture,thankyou.

And if it's ok, I will stop by at jOhn's, to get the milk in Jacksons incase Les has run out.

Subject: RE: BS: I see no ships.
From: Naemanson
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 07:36 PM

What I see from my windows is nothing to write home to mother about. My front window looks out at the dooryard littered with the cast off toys of the neghbor kids, the junker the neighbor drives and my own pickup. The side window looks out through the overgrown bougainvillea to the breadfruit tree and the papaya growing on the other neighbor's yard.

The view comes in on the drive down off the mountain where the greenery opens up to reveal the harbor way down below and beyond the wide Pacific Ocean blue to the horizon. Occasionally there is a ship out there. Other times, as this morning, there is a cloud bank with rain squalls pouring grey into the ocean.