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The Mima Mounds or: Post your favorite landscape thing whatever

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  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
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  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
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    I have been here.

    The Chippewa say this is where a sleeping mother bear waits for her two cubs, who drowned in Lake Michigan and who were brought back as two islands visible in the distance.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
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  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-07-02 18:50:57
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Landscape arch.
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    Delicate arch:

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  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
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  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-07-02 18:45:58
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Aw dang, Mach, what is that?  It doesn't look possible!  Where is it!

    It's otherworldly, like a dream...

    They look a bit like the tops of hoodoos, except huge, mountain-sized, even.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    Aliroz said:

    Aw dang, Mach, what is that?  It doesn't look possible!  Where is it!

    It's otherworldly, like a dream...

    Guilin, China
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Lots of really great paintings and photos have been done of the mountains in the motherland, and they're still not done.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-07-02 19:07:52
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    So, I looked for said paintings of the Guilin mountains.

    Oh, how could you ever be done with painting that!

    If I could be there, to see this place, I could die content.
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I prefer the more stylistic, black-and-white ones but still very detailed, or the more abstract inkwash ones. The ones we tend to paint.

    But those are also really good.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-07-02 19:16:14
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Ah, so  something like this?  Or this?
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    edited 2015-07-02 19:19:41
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Yes, exactly like those. Those are great.

    I really want to revisit inkwash paintings one day.
  • AlirozAliroz
    edited 2015-07-02 19:24:35
    ...And even when your hope is gone
    move along, move along, just to make it through
    (2015 self)
    Are these

    Of the same thing?

    Because it looks as though these are two paintings of the same ???? from the same vantage point.

    @Odradek:  That's a lovely legend.  It sounds like a good trip.  Are there any pictures of the two islands/cubs?
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    I'm tired so they could be? I don't know.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
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    On this island, Ball's Pyramid, in the year 2000 scientists found a species of stick insect, sometimes known as the Tree Lobster, living under the island's single bush a hundred feet up. There were 27 of them, which was a surprise to the scientists, because the entire species had been thought dead since 1920.

    The survivors are now being bred in captivity with great success.
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
    gretchensinister: I just look at this and all I can feel is that it’s going to lead me to some fiendishly difficult puzzle that will require 27 pages of notes, a detail from two universes ago, and my dad to solve.

    This is in Wansheng Stone Forest, in China.
  • Salix BabylonikaSalix Babylonika
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    super hexagon
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Baldanders said:

    gretchensinister: I just look at this and all I can feel is that it’s going to lead me to some fiendishly difficult puzzle that will require 27 pages of notes, a detail from two universes ago, and my dad to solve.


    This is in Wansheng Stone Forest, in China.
    hype
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    that is very cool
  • CalicaCalica
    Sup bitches, witches, Haters, and trolls.
    those are some hype hexagons imho
  • LOAD CherryLOAD Cherry
    Splat Charger Specialist
    Man, I love China. I kinda wanna go, but I am intimidated by all the languages, even if I were just gonna learn Mandarin
  • sunn wolfsunn wolf
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    langdale, england, from rossett pike

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    the old man of coniston, england

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    beacon tarn, england

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    elephant mountain, taipei

    all my own photos
  • One-Winged EagleOne-Winged Eagle
    Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
    Taiwan was a weird place to visit in terms of architecture and like, placement. I'd turn a corner and there's a spot I'd see in Shanghai, old and Chinese, and I'd turn another and there's a spot I'd see here in Singapore, modern and western-ish. The roads, the buildings, the people...

    Mandarin will get you most of the way in China. It's pretty much the official language anyway.
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Oregon is a cool state.

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    The dunes in Eastern Oregon, far from the coast.

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    Silver Falls (that is a path that lets you walk behind the falls, it's really cool)

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    Oregon Coast

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    Both the above are the Oneonta Gorge, in one of Oregon's rainforests. 


  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    There's also crater lake, I guess, but I was never all *that* impressed by Crater Lake, in all honesty. 

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  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    I didn't know Oregon had sand dunes.

    Also the coast picture looks like a Yes album cover
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Oh! And the Painted Hills are amazing. I would like to go in person at some point. I've been to Crater Lake, Silver Falls, and the Oneonta Gorge, but a lot of Eastern Oregon other than Bend and Hart Mountain are mysteries to me. 

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  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Okay, done pic-spamming now. Oregon is just too pretty. 

    I may like living in Washington better, but I think Oregon has a lot more to offer in terms of scenery on the whole. 
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
    colorful
  • eriophora ziaeriophora zia
    I have cut a caper with the dancing mad god
    Imipolex G said:

    I didn't know Oregon had sand dunes.

    Also the coast picture looks like a Yes album cover

    Oregon has practically everything. Eastern Oregon is quite dry, the opposite of how you'd typically think of the place. 
  • OdradekOdradek
    My dreams exceed my real life
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    The view from Great Gable hill in the English Lake District
  • KlinotaxisKlinotaxis
    kill living beings
    eriophora zia said:

    Imipolex G said:

    I didn't know Oregon had sand dunes.

    Also the coast picture looks like a Yes album cover

    Oregon has practically everything. Eastern Oregon is quite dry, the opposite of how you'd typically think of the place. 
    are there not any in washington? I thought the climates were pretty similar.
  • Imipolex GImipolex G
    Touch the cow. Do it now.
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