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Kiwi in Tokyo – what’s the view from your window this morning?

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I’m a NZ-born believer living in a tiny Tokyo apartment; the sunrise just crept over the neighbourhood roofs and made me homesick for big skies and real-coffee chat. So, worldwide friends, hit reply with one sentence: what can you see outside your window right now—and does it make you smile, sigh, or pray? Photos welcome (but no pressure). Let’s swap snapshots and small talk that might grow into bigger friendship. Grace, bob121 – Tokyo

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I'm in New Jersey. It's late autumn here. This week has seen clouds and drizzly rain. We haven't had our first hard freeze of the season yet, so some of the plants are still bravely flowering -- including my azaleas and my tomato plants, improbably. Gray weather tends to make me sad, but the stubbornly blooming plants cheer me up.

This is the tree that I see out my front window.


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I'm tucked in a little corner of unincorporated Los Angeles County, with good views of downtown LA. This image is my profile banner, so this was taken a few years ago and from a park not far from home, but the view is pretty similar to the real one out my window. We've had a lot of rain (for desert Los Angeles) this November, and there's a little snow on the tallest hills, similar to what's shown below. I do get joy looking out the window on 'my' city.

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essentialsaltes said:
I'm tucked in a little corner of unincorporated Los Angeles County, with good views of downtown LA. This image is my profile banner, so this was taken a few years ago and from a park not far from home, but the view is pretty similar to the real one out my window. We've had a lot of rain (for desert Los Angeles) this November, and there's a little snow on the tallest hills, similar to what's shown below. I do get joy looking out the window on 'my' city.

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Very nice contrast—modern human progress and those mighty mountains in the background. All of it shouts God’s handiwork: the city He lets us build and the un-movable peak He spoke into being. On a clear day Fuji reminds me He’s still the greater Architect. Thank you for sharing His glory from your window—have a wonderful day/night.
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Oh!! I LOOOOVE this.
I'll take a picture tomorrow.
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ARRRRG! I FORGOT! Ok. Well it doesn't matter anyways cause when I wake up it's completely dark. Tomorrow (saturday) when I can sleep in a bit, I can actually get a morning shot.

Not quite as impressive as some here though...that's for sure.
 
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rambot said:
Not quite as impressive as some here though...that's for sure.
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But then again, it's all in the eye of the beholder. A month earlier and you'd have seen nothing but corn.

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partinobodycular said:
But then again, it's all in the eye of the beholder. A month earlier and you'd have seen nothing but corn.

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Honestly, I LOVE that. IT reminds me of my uncle's place in northern Holland that backs onto a farm wit ha little cuvert separating it.

I bet it smells wonderful; Tilled earth is.......great.
 
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rambot said:
I bet it smells wonderful; Tilled earth is.......great.
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Ah, the mind is so good at seeing what it wants to see. But consider this, absolutely nothing... and I do mean nothing will grow in that field except corn. So for the next seven months this is what I'll see... miles, and miles, and miles of lifeless windswept dirt.
 
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partinobodycular said:
Ah, the mind is so good at seeing what it wants to see. But consider this, absolutely nothing... and I do mean nothing will grow in that field except corn. So for the next seven months this is what I'll see... miles, and miles, and miles of lifeless windswept dirt.
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Living up in Edmonton, I do get teh blessing of our ground covered by a beautiful white blanket.

That said, our springs are...just.....awwwwful. Brown.Dead.Dry. Gravel everywhere (from snow and driving and everything). UNTIL we get one or two good rains...things green up fast and it's lovel.y.

I even wrote a song about that.

Click on "Springtime in My Hometown"
 
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rambot said:
Living up in Edmonton, I do get teh blessing of our ground covered by a beautiful white blanket.
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Ah, you're lucky then, because I don't get that. Notice that I mentioned windswept, which means that the snow blows across those miles and miles of wide open fields until it encounters some type of windbreak where it forms a sort of white concrete around anything unlucky enough to be more than three feet high.

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That said, our springs are...just.....awwwwful. Brown.Dead.Dry. Gravel everywhere (from snow and driving and everything). UNTIL we get one or two good rains...things green up fast and it's lovel.y.
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Ah, now you're speaking my language. Outsiders think that you're crazy if you tell them that what we need to dry the ground out is a nice warm rain. They're like... how does rain dry the ground out? Because until it rains the ground is frozen, so all that melting snow has nowhere to go. Then the rain thaws out the ground, and what was nothing but a lake one day is gone the next. It just magically disappears.

Then the spring comes and the northwesterly winds turn into southwesterly winds and rain. Everything turns green, and eventually the rains stop. At which point everything is beautiful for about two weeks, and then the bugs come.

Yeah, life in the Upper Midwest, it's so much fun!
 
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Ah, you're lucky then, because I don't get that. Notice that I mentioned windswept, which means that the snow blows across those miles and miles of wide open fields until it encounters some type of windbreak where it forms a sort of white concrete around anything unlucky enough to be more than three feet high.



Ah, now you're speaking my language. Outsiders think that you're crazy if you tell them that what we need to dry the ground out is a nice warm rain. They're like... how does rain dry the ground out? Because until it rains the ground is frozen, so all that melting snow has nowhere to go. Then the rain thaws out the ground, and what was nothing but a lake one day is gone the next. It just magically disappears.

Then the spring comes and the northwesterly winds turn into southwesterly winds and rain. Everything turns green, and eventually the rains stop. At which point everything is beautiful for about two weeks, and then the bugs come.

Yeah, life in the Upper Midwest, it's so much fun!
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MidWest eh? Nice! I've always wondered what that part of the US looks like.

I'm really surprised you guys don't have windbreaks. In the canadian prairies they were installed in the "dirty 30s" to stop soil loss. Did you guys not do it up there?
 
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