where do you live?

[billy rubin]

tulup poplars!









beautiful trees. largest broadleaf in the americas, up to 200 feet tall with enough time.

large cup-shaped creamy white flowers that produce seeds to plant. i put these in about twelve years ago to mark property corners and to shade the south side of the house. theyre twenty feet tall now.

beautiful trees

[Dark Lightning]

Looks like something has been chomping on the leaves. I carved a project out of tulip wood many years ago. I'm guessing that it was this type. It was early on in my carving "career"; I had a hell of a time with it. Turns out there are knives made specifically for it, which I did not have.

[billy rubin]

have you ever dobe anything with osage orange?

[Dark Lightning]

No, I don't see any of it for sale in local stores, except for wood boutiques such as Rockler or WoodCraft. I hear it's pretty hard, so I would go out of my way to get some to carve.

[billy rubin]

i pick up the horse apples every autumn from them on my way home from work and throw them out in the property to see if any grow. the trees are dense with brushy limbs and are pretty thorny, but they have large white flowers in the spring and im a sucker for flowers.

i have read that the wood is pretty tough and was used by native americans for hunting bows. dont know any more than that. stay with me for another fifty years and i will ship you a saw log.

[Dark Lightning]

I'll be dead in about 20 years or less. I should plant my ass under one of them. Then you'd have an Osage orange crab apple tree.

[billy rubin]

my son really likes this part of the road home.

and this opposite our mailbox

[Icarus]

^ Gorgeous shots. I could appreciate the quiet in a place like that, and accept the sounds of nature

[Dark Lightning]

^ Indeed.

[Harmonie]

I live in the beautiful state of Connecticut. 

Sorry, these pictures were taken with my phone, not my camera, so they aren't winning any awards, but I can share my state!

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[Dark Lightning]

^ Nice! Now that the snow has melted... 

[Harmonie]

^ Nice! Now that the snow has melted... 

Ah, but you see I like the snow!  I have plenty of snow pics, too, but a lot of them were shot while in the car and just aren't optimal to post. It's very pretty here with the snow, though!

[Icarus]

I lived in the Nutmeg State for a while Harmonie.  It is beautiful for most of the year, but one has to live there for a while to believe that the winter scene is beautiful. I never did make friends with black ice and that sort of winter phenomena.  Chains on tires were not my favorite implements either.

One of the things I liked best about Connecticut is that I found my wife there. I loved her dearly for thirty five years. She went to the happy hunting grounds in 1984 and I still love that "damn Yankee" woman with all my heart. The words "Damn Yankee" are  terms of endearment in this case.

[Asmodean]

I live in Bærum municipality, on the outskirts of Oslo, Norway. I rent a small-ish annex building, which is basically all on one floor, but with a sleeping and storage loft. It suits me and hey, under a thousand bucks a month. Over here. That's mildly impressive for what I get, which includes electricalness and the interwebs, though I have my own Internet subscription because faster.

I may be moving some time this summer or autumn because I'm changing jobs in September. (You may have noticed that I was completely under a rock for a while. That's why. Ridiculously busy doing stuff like documenting over ten years of how I kept my part of the ship chimney side up. Well, that, and I've tried and succeeded in getting rid of some extra kilos I acquired over the past forty years. Hiking...) Ah! Yes. Also turned forty. Everything hurts now - what else is new?

Anyhoo, if I do move, it will be within some ten miles-ish from where I currently live. But then again, mebbe not - the metro line that stops "right outside" my place also stops "right underneath" the new job. It's still a bit far though.

So there you have it. Oslo area. Can recommend. Pleasant climate, fair enough public trnasport, fair enough parking conditions outside the city centre... Ridiculous property prices unless you are lucky and/or patient and/or both.

[Harmonie]

^Ah. Norway. Sounds absolutely beautiful!

I lived in the Nutmeg State for a while Harmonie.  It is beautiful for most of the year, but one has to live there for a while to believe that the winter scene is beautiful. I never did make friends with black ice and that sort of winter phenomena.  Chains on tires were not my favorite implements either.

One of the things I liked best about Connecticut is that I found my wife there. I loved her dearly for thirty five years. She went to the happy hunting grounds in 1984 and I still love that "damn Yankee" woman with all my heart. The words "Damn Yankee" are  terms of endearment in this case.

Oh... I'm sorry to hear about that. =( She must have been pretty young. Considering that was before I was born and now I'm 36!

I hope so much that I finally find someone here!

I relocated to CT a year ago, so I have been through a winter. And I had to deal with a lot of black ice. I don't have a car yet, so I do lots of walking to get around. I'm no fan of black ice, but it didn't change my opinion that I found the winter to be great.

I have something weird. I don't know if it's reverse SAD or what, but I need a winter. This last winter was so refreshing to me.

I can't imagine that Indianapolis is much better for you? I don't know too much, but it seems like it's north enough to get cold and winter storms, maybe even kinda like CT (but the midwest is different, of course). But on top of that you also have to deal with tornadoes and conservative Christian governance. D: