Writer's Block: Coast Range

[bookaddict88]

[Error: unknown template qotd] The mountains, most definitely. I mean, just look at these pictures from the trip to Scotland I took over Thanksgiving weekend:







The ocean is pretty, and I wouldn't mind having an ocean near the mountains, but if I had to choose between the oceans and the mountains, the mountains definitely would win.  Then again, maybe I'm just slightly biased against the ocean because the sand and sea irritate my skin (though not as bad as they used to), and I'm allergic to sunscreen so I have to be careful not to get burned.  I do love the ocean at night, though...

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[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

I am thinking the sea is ever changing
in color and movement...the mountain perhaps
a bit less so except as in the changing
light of day which is much. I expect this
goes to what might be said for the sea.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

That is true. I love to sit and watch and listen to the waves. But on the other hand, I think one of the things I love about the mountains is their stillness.

[danceswithwaves.livejournal.com]

The ocean. It's barely a choice for me. And yet, when choosing terrain I love the most, mountains come second. I'd love to live somewhere there are cliff edges to the sea. I think because I love most the feeling of freedom both places give me. The ocean is so open and vast and yet also personal with its changing colors and movement by the weather and season. The mountains have the same feeling of openness, but their closeness comes from the valleys and the places the sky doesn't touch.

I spent a week and a half at sea a couple years ago on an oceanography program. I thought I'd miss trees and stuff while at sea, but when I came home I missed the smell of brine. And the waves at sea are calmer than the waves on the shore, even if the swells themselves are higher -- the sea surface appears flatter and more still at sea than on the shore.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

Cliff edges to the sea would be really cool. And I do love being at sea, where all you see around you is water, though I'm not sure I could stand being at sea all the time.

[000sundancer000.livejournal.com]

Since I already live near the ocean, I'd rather stay around here. So ocean!

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

I live about 45 min from the ocean and about an hour and a half from a mountain range, so while I don't live right near either, it's nice to be able to go to one or the other for the day or the weekend. (This doesn't apply when I'm at school, where everything is way too flat and the nearest ocean is 4 hours away).

[3rdragon]

The ocean is pretty. I like to visit it and take pictures.
But if we're choosing a permanent residence, yeah, I'm with you, I'll lift up mine eyes unto the hills.
. . . At least as long as we're dealing with a high enough level of technology that I don't have to haul water by hand anywhere.

And wow, those are gorgeous pictures.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

Yeah, plumbing and electricity and the internet are musts. I can do without them for a week or so (and it's actually kind of nice sometimes to get away from it all), but not if we're talking permanent residence.