Ho Rainforest

I'll grant you that a rainforest has subtlety. Me, I stare out my windows at honking masses of granite seamed with fault lines, with a few trees and scrub oaks clinging to the crags. Not a lot of subtlety there.

Though the aspen groves are very gorgeous. I just wish they were really green, not that yellow green.

DC tends more toward hot dog and ice cream wagons than coffee.

Though when I was at the U of Penn campus last fall, there seemed to be a row of maybe half a dozen wagons, each serving something different.

I'll grant you that a rainforest has subtlety. Me, I stare out my windows at honking masses of granite seamed with fault lines, with a few trees and scrub oaks clinging to the crags. Not a lot of subtlety there.

Yeah, I think the Washington State mountains are a whole different experience. And I missed the last H on Hoh. Ahem. Didn't mean to make her out to be a tramp. She's far from easy.

Alaska's mountains - specifically the Brooks Range - are what I think of whenever Pratchett describes the Ramtop mountains. The scale is rather beyond comprehension - we think we can figure them out, conquer them, put our mark on them, but we can't. We pass by, and they keep on.

Now I'm all happy on coffee carts: [link]

I just love that for a buck its hot and fresh and the pastries are soft and fresh. Ok, now its usually closer to two bucks for coffee and a buttered roll (nom) or donut.

I never met a landscape I didn't love. I know I'm all special snowflake about them, but really, I love them all.

OMG, everyone can suck it SO HARD today.

Not you people.

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That picture comes from what is actually an interesting case study, for anyone who is interested in urban development and/or Davis Square: [link]

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