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I'd like a yard that isn't a yard at all! One that is seen more of a good friend than a peice of property.

Yeah, moss friggin rocks, I agree totally. And what with all the friggin water being wasted on Kentucky Blue Grass for lawns in DRY states like COLORADO it seems even more appetizing of an idea and even further away.

Bot this thread is about beauty. Lets take Argentina for example;
It's very beautiful

It's as I said in another page....

right about there. it's a big strip right down the middle of virginia. I'm actually about 4 hours drive E-NE of there, up near baltimore

Skyline Drive cuts right down the middle of it, and if you ever get the chance to drive up there, it's beautifull. there is a toll to get in, that goes to the national park service (one of the few tolls I don't mind paying, because it goes to a great cause) and it's about 105 miles long. it goes over all the mountain peaks and looks down into the valley below, anywhere between 2000-3000 feet below. there are parking lots about every mile or so, where you can go out and look. It's an amazing experience;. if you ever get the chance to visit virginia, I suggest you go drive along skyline drive. Or, if you are an avid Hikier or back packer, go hike it. though, keep in mind that because it is 105 miles long, you are not likely to do all of it in one day, there are multiple entrances and what not to it, so you can do just parts of it.

Virginia? Oh geez, that place is beautiful. IT'S SO ******** CLEAN!!!

Oh, man, the ditches in my city........beautiful.

They're not really ditches...they're too big. Well, they are, but that doesn't stop them from being awesome.

Imagine, behind every neighborhood, a 6-15-foot ditch slowly inclining outwards with a 3 foot stream in the middle. And trees cascading over them, and lots of moss, and grass, and bushes, and flowers, and plants of all sort of kinds. And then bridges, those concrete bridges, and under them, with grass surrounding the whole place and vines wrapped around the supports. It's like it's man-made, then nature re-takes it over.

I mean, I have walked 10 miles down these things, past two neighborhoods, with mini waterfalls and makeshift bridges people like me had placed there before to cross them, and you can find deer, and turtles, hawks, opossums there...

And then, the lakes. They're retention ponds, really, used to keep the water in when it rains so our neighborhoods don't flood, but they're still awesome. Trees and grass growing around them, and you see ducks and geese and storks in them. You can actually fish in them, but it's not wise to eat anything you fish out of a retention pond....lol.

....man, I gotta take some pictures of this. No one really understands how beautiful they can be until you see a picture. It's my little urban-suburban paradise like this, that reminds me that even though there's concrete everywhere, we've got some green still.

I mean, I never get to go to the country. The country is 30 miles out, and I have no car. The closest thing to a countryside I see around here is the nature trail 15 miles down in the other town.(I live in Pasadena, TX, an offshoot of Houston. Yea...no rolling fields for us).

But, we have stores everywhere. And in between every store, there's a little patch of trees and field. And underneath every old bridge is a soft loamy bit of dirt with plants surrrounding the bridge. These are the kinds of places you could build a secret clubhouse and no one would ever know.

And in between these neighborhoods, I swear, NO ONE is ever there. You take your friends and you can walk for hours out either way and it just doesn't stop. Bridges go over them, streets continue, and so do these ditches.

There's fields of undeveloped "property" with HUGE trees growing everywhere, and even though it's sad, because they're bound to get knocked down someday, there's always the privately owned ones with the broken down fencelines that you can wonder for ages in. Of course, trespassing isn't exactly the most legal thing to do, but the ditches themselves are still city property, and as long as you don't have a motor vehicle, you're in the clear.

I dunno....I'm seeing all these rural areas, and I'm thinking, "Hey, I've never had the privelege of going somewhere with a clear view of the milky way at night," but boy, sometimes, these places make up for it.

It's a different sort of Paradise.

It's a shame really, I can't remember what this place is named, nor where it really is. All I know is that it's in New Mexico.

My parents decided to go on this sort of roadtrip, see some of New Mexico, all sorts of crazy things, it was pretty fun really. There was this one feature I remember, a rock formation shaped like a window, but it was different from other formations of the same time.

This one was covered with trees, most likely mesquite, a lot of them. Most window rock formations I recall seeing in pictures were rather sparse when it came to trees. It was a real site.

There was also this place in Arizona, this was more recent yet I still can't remember the name. It's a small little group of dwellings from long ago that have been carved into the face of a cliff. It's rather odd to see this cliff and then a couple of little adobe buildings right inside it.

EDIT: never mind, I found it, turns out it's simply called "Window Rock", and it's really in Arizona.