Writer's Block: Beautiful Vistas
Apr. 23rd, 2009 04:40 pm[Error: unknown template qotd]
Tie between these two:
Ftan, Switzerland

Miyajima, Japan

Not a great picture; I've got better ones but they're not in digital format. Most people think of the gate when they think of Miyajima, and, sure, that's pretty, but actually I really like the back of the island, which you can see if you go up in the gondolas: all these lush, forested islands just poking up out of the sea.
All of these are my pictures-- so, yes, I've been there. Maybe it's because I was raised in Indiana and never saw them growing up, but I think mountains are exceptionally beautiful.
Tie between these two:
Ftan, Switzerland

Miyajima, Japan

Not a great picture; I've got better ones but they're not in digital format. Most people think of the gate when they think of Miyajima, and, sure, that's pretty, but actually I really like the back of the island, which you can see if you go up in the gondolas: all these lush, forested islands just poking up out of the sea.
All of these are my pictures-- so, yes, I've been there. Maybe it's because I was raised in Indiana and never saw them growing up, but I think mountains are exceptionally beautiful.
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Date: 2009-04-23 10:02 pm (UTC)Two of my favorite places!
Date: 2009-04-23 11:20 pm (UTC)Japan is such a wonderous place. My father was there for a month and still remembers how great it was.
Switzerland looks magical as well.
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Date: 2009-04-24 12:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-24 12:26 am (UTC)As a fellow Midwesterner, I'll second you on the appreciation of mountains. At the same time, it wasn't until I got back from Japan that I realized how much I missed occasionally driving through open fields with a huge sky overhead; all those mountains and buildings meant a much smaller sky, and I found I missed the plains from time to time.
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Date: 2009-04-24 04:32 am (UTC)