I should be continuing the job hunt
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ickaimpSo, as I was walking around Tucson today, I was thinking about beauty. Or, more specfically, landscapes.
New Zealand is GEORGEOUS. There's no debating that, there are areas of it that are completley untouched, pristine. The southern part of the west coast (South Island) in particularly, with all the ferns and dripping plant life, it almost feels like a dinosaur should be poking their head out of the foliage at any moment. It's prehistoric feeling, like humans haven't even been thought of yet.
It's also very cold and wet on that coast, with clouds slipping through the trees and mountains, looking like wandering silver dragons. Absolutely breathtaking.
The Canterbury (middle of south island) is also lovely, in the 'emerald green grass and fluffy white sheep for as far as the eye can see' way. Is peaceful feeling.
Upper South Island and North Island are picturesque as well, but we like the lower south island better. #^^# Nyah.
Tucson... isn't green. It's about as far from vibrant green as you can get. There's lots and lots of pastel colours, golden dust, sage greens, lavender mountains and pale blue sky. It's hot. People don't have acres of grass or gardens in the front of their houses. Instead, the tendancy is for a more drought resistant beauty... different coloured sculpted gravel with cacti and sage scattered around. Some people have sculpture gardens, white porclin children and angels frolicing to abstract metal with vibrant glass to everything inbetween.
In a stark contrast to the pastels of the enviroment, houses tend to be a wide assortement of colours. Vibrant tangerine, russet, lime green, grape purple. It's almost like a child's pallete of colours on the houses. Yet it feels right here, a celebration of life in the desert.
It doesn't mean that the water dripping fern forests of NZ are more beautiful than the heat-resistant spiked plants of the American Southwest, but it's different extremes of beauty. The desert tends to be a more subtle beauty, you have to look for it, while NZ's vibrant mountains dare you not to be impressed.
... eh, just random musings. #^^#
New Zealand is GEORGEOUS. There's no debating that, there are areas of it that are completley untouched, pristine. The southern part of the west coast (South Island) in particularly, with all the ferns and dripping plant life, it almost feels like a dinosaur should be poking their head out of the foliage at any moment. It's prehistoric feeling, like humans haven't even been thought of yet.
It's also very cold and wet on that coast, with clouds slipping through the trees and mountains, looking like wandering silver dragons. Absolutely breathtaking.
The Canterbury (middle of south island) is also lovely, in the 'emerald green grass and fluffy white sheep for as far as the eye can see' way. Is peaceful feeling.
Upper South Island and North Island are picturesque as well, but we like the lower south island better. #^^# Nyah.
Tucson... isn't green. It's about as far from vibrant green as you can get. There's lots and lots of pastel colours, golden dust, sage greens, lavender mountains and pale blue sky. It's hot. People don't have acres of grass or gardens in the front of their houses. Instead, the tendancy is for a more drought resistant beauty... different coloured sculpted gravel with cacti and sage scattered around. Some people have sculpture gardens, white porclin children and angels frolicing to abstract metal with vibrant glass to everything inbetween.
In a stark contrast to the pastels of the enviroment, houses tend to be a wide assortement of colours. Vibrant tangerine, russet, lime green, grape purple. It's almost like a child's pallete of colours on the houses. Yet it feels right here, a celebration of life in the desert.
It doesn't mean that the water dripping fern forests of NZ are more beautiful than the heat-resistant spiked plants of the American Southwest, but it's different extremes of beauty. The desert tends to be a more subtle beauty, you have to look for it, while NZ's vibrant mountains dare you not to be impressed.
... eh, just random musings. #^^#
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Date: 2006-10-31 12:40 am (UTC)You describe it nicely too:)
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Date: 2006-11-01 05:34 pm (UTC)Agreed. Only, I kinda wanna do it sooner than 'someday'. Not sure why, but little voice in the back of my head is urging me to do it sooner rather than later. ^^;;
And thanks!
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Date: 2006-10-31 08:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-01 05:41 pm (UTC)-will have to get up there some day. ^___^
Was funny, as I was kinda building the entry in my head, it suddenly dawned on me that not only had the people I know in Christchurch never been to Tucson, a lot of people in the States prolly hadn't been there either.
Kinda weird, realising that I've been places other people haven't. o_O
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Date: 2006-11-01 08:09 pm (UTC)Heh. I actually tend to have a different problem; a lot of people I know seem to have been to the places I have, but don't know the sort of stuff I take for granted.
...of course, when you're a bit odd, that comes with the territory...