You don't need to be an 'investor' to invest in Singletrack: 6 days left: 95% of target - Find out more
To start this January week off right, tell us and show us something in nature you find beautiful. I mean stunningly, startlingly beautiful. It should be something that, when you see it, changes you from the inside somehow. Could be plant, animal, landscape, sky-based, etc., as long as it’s natural. By all means, post more than once. And ideally, include a picture.
Only one rule: it has to be visible on or from Earth. In other words, please don’t post those star cluster pictures taken by NASA telescopes. Constellations and such things count, but you have to be able to see them from Earth.
I’ll start.
Citrus. Especially on trees.
Bath farts.
This is going to be my most middle-class post ever, but here we go:
Romanesco Broccoli. An incredible feat of nature.
I once saw a face in a crowded place...
i'd love to be able to answer. My mrs calls things "pretty" too..
I don't get it.. things... exist... but are they pretty ? not really..
Beauty.. i get that as a terminology for women... but not things.
The humble, self-deprecating humility of Novax Djokavich. It's there for all to wonder at and aspire to.
Sharks. I love sharks - I have a shark t-shirt and the 2022 shark calendar and everything. 🙂
Skylarks, specifically skylarks in North Norfolk. Not only is the song so beautiful but it brings back memories of family holidays in Blakeney and Moreston in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Lying in the edges of the salt marsh looking up at the birds rising up into the huge blue sky (and it always seemed to be sunny in my memories)
When I first came to live near Malvern you could occasionally hear them on the remoter ends of the hills, but now almost completely gone from the area.
@pondo, I watched Playing With Sharks on Nat Geo (Disney+) yesterday. I thought it would be a fairly dull, slow paced docco that would send the kiddies to sleep, but it was utterly captivating. Have you seen it? Recommended if you haven't!
Jimw''s post
MrsWCA
You're Beautiful. James Blunt said.
Our scenery.
I’ve never been anywhere else in the world that has the right ratio of hills, sky, sea and green that we have.
These two views instantly spring to mind:
[url= https://i.postimg.cc/rwCJvfty/20210531-160553.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.postimg.cc/rwCJvfty/20210531-160553.jp g"/> [/img][/url][url= https://bettafishcaretaker.com/my-betta-fish-wont-eat-im-worried ]goldfish lethargic not eating[/url]
[url= https://i.postimg.cc/sDWKJjjh/20210531-125756.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.postimg.cc/sDWKJjjh/20210531-125756.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
Partly because they're good views but also as it means I'm in one of my favourite Happy Places. I used to escape there on my bike when I was in school and get away from the bullies and every other stress in my life and I've never stopped doing so. 8 miles away from where I grew up so easy to get to and it also means I'm close to the family I care about.
Also cats, love cats.
Based on the OP's photo, I'm going to say Photoshop. Photoshop is beautiful.
Skylarks, specifically skylarks in North Norfolk. Not only is the song so beautiful but it brings back memories of family holidays in Blakeney and Moreston in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Lying in the edges of the salt marsh looking up at the birds rising up into the huge blue sky (and it always seemed to be sunny in my memories)
When I first came to live near Malvern you could occasionally hear them on the remoter ends of the hills, but now almost completely gone from the area.
As someone that lives about 8 miles south of Blakeney, the Skylarks are still here Jim, love hearing them when bivvying up the coast (makes a change from the constant sound of 1000's of geese!)
Love seeing the seal colony in Norfolk too, year on year numbers are growing with another record this year for the number of pups born, they're not sure why numbers are growing, other than they must feel safe, nice to see a success story in nature, instead of numbers decreasing rapidly
Blue skies. I dick around with lights for a living, and there's so many amazing shades of blue up there that are impossible to recreate with manmade gear.
Bluebell lined singletrack in the woods on a glorious May morning.
Being on top of a big hill with an Inversion beneath you and just the summits pokeing out the cloud as far as the eye can see.
Like this @JonEdwards?
[url= https://i.postimg.cc/Kzj92tnK/20211219-143312.jp g" target="_blank">https://i.postimg.cc/Kzj92tnK/20211219-143312.jp g"/> [/img][/url]
Was greeted by this when going to my parent's house a few days ago. Their house is under the middle of it!
theres a couple of Mums on the school drop off....
I don’t get it.. things… exist… but are they pretty ? not really..
I understand that someone might have no aesthetic appreciation at all, but then you say this:
Beauty.. i get that as a terminology for women… but not things.
and I'm kind of confused that neither landscape, nor the intricacies of nature or some delicate engineering marvel could justify the use beautiful.
So many natural things are amazing when you really look at them - macro photography's great for that. Pine cones, spiders' webs, snails, tree bark, pretty much any plant etc - just extraordinary. I think people tend the other way, the closer you zoom in, the uglier they get.
We spend a lot of time not really looking at things properly and mountain biking's particularly bad for that just because you're moving so quickly. It's interesting to walk one of your regular trails occasionally and notice the stuff that you just don't see on a bike. My misses have included an entire bench, some llamas and a view of Kinder I'd never actually clocked was there.
Beauty.. i get that as a terminology for women… but not things.
How about men? Can men be 'beautiful' too or is it just women?
I could google Northern lights and stick a photo in, but you could too.
Snow covered mountains too.
My dog is beautiful, she also causes me more pain that anything else ever has.
How about men? Can men be ‘beautiful’ too or is it just women?
Ashethically yes, of course, I say that as hetro male.
Bought one for the first time last week. INdeed beautiful and I was totally fascinated by it, almost a shame to cook it!
Used it to explain the Fibonacchi sequence to the kids - they were non-plussed.
How about men? Can men be ‘beautiful’ too or is it just women?
Not to me personally, but i'd expect so to others yes.
Purple wild flowers. Purple is such a strange colour to find in nature, so I love to see a nice little speedwell, foxglove etc. Here's some in the Alps
A spiderweb, covered in frost.
As for landscapes, I vote for the Langdale Pikes as you come along the valley towards them.
I think it's possible to see beauty in many things - sometimes certain images just strike me as beautiful even if it's something like a bit of metal that curves a certain way... wish I had a proper eye for photography.
A spiderweb, covered in frost.
Is exactly what I was about to say.
The dark metallic blue flash of a swallow swooping over a stream.
The ghostly apparition of a barn owl in flight.
Red squirrels eating from my parents squirrel feeder.
The new forth crossing and how the stays for from triangular to a nice parabola and into what looks like a giant sail as you approach it.
Big waves.
Skinny steel bike frames.
Kingfisher catching your eye. As above skylarks tweeting their techno on a sunny day and spiders webs in dew.
Love seeing the seal colony in Norfolk too, year on year numbers are growing with another record this year for the number of pups born, they’re not sure why numbers are growing,
Scud, very glad to hear that the Skylarks are still there, I do visit occasionally as my Aunt lives in Blakeney now.as far as the seals are concerned, when I started visiting Blakeney Point in the mid 60's, there were no seals. The point has grown westward by nearly 1/2 mile in that time IIRC and they started arriving in the late 80's I believe.
Starling murmurations.
I once had a debate with our Y10 (it wasn't called that then, it was Lower 5th) art teacher that the number 32 was beautiful.
When you'd been at a freezing bus stop for 20 minutes and you could just make out the number 32 on that bus coming towards you...
Ignoring the horrific taste in grips (I have now realised my error, removed said grips and banished them to the back of the parts box), this is my beautiful 'happy place'.
When the bluebells appear, it feels like nature is coming out to play, and the burst of colour is like a drug for the back of the eyeballs.
Love those grips haha! Not sure I'd want them anywhere near a bike... but the colours are great.
A wet tarmac country road, winding on, shining Hockney gold and silver as the rain clears and you feel the sun on your back.....
meh - link not work
Women on bicycles.
The Mandelbrot Set.
The original PS3.