This is for those of you who can't see past your trees.......
By rebelann1949
@rebelann (117275)
El Paso, Texas
July 31, 2016 5:19pm CST
Ok, that was intended as a pun
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I know that when there are lots of trees around you have a hard time seeing a horizon so I thought I'd share a view of what it looks like when there are no trees to obscure the horizon.
Just remember, I live in the desert where trees are cherished because they are rare.
I took the picture from the western slopes of the Franklin Mountains several decades ago, with all this new techo fun stuff I was able to crop out the mid section at the left to give you an idea of just exactly how vast this area is, the mountains you see on the horizon is probably the Cedar Mountain Range in NM which is about 121 miles from the Franklins.
How far can you see into the horizon?
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I know that when there are lots of trees around you have a hard time seeing a horizon so I thought I'd share a view of what it looks like when there are no trees to obscure the horizon.
Just remember, I live in the desert where trees are cherished because they are rare.
I took the picture from the western slopes of the Franklin Mountains several decades ago, with all this new techo fun stuff I was able to crop out the mid section at the left to give you an idea of just exactly how vast this area is, the mountains you see on the horizon is probably the Cedar Mountain Range in NM which is about 121 miles from the Franklins.
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11 responses
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
1 Aug 16
lovely pic, hon. well, i can see fer miles'n miles out here 'cross these flat lands. although the more folks move out this way, the more trees/buildin's they're puttin' 'p to block such. danged the luck! ought not've listened to the real estate fella when i moved out here 'n bought either south 'f town 'r 'bout 25 more miles north!
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Aug 16
What a bummer @crazyhorseladycx but you'd think native grasses would take hold once the plants had gone to seed.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Aug 16
Your region is more grassy then ours but I can't recall many trees in the Albuquerque area either. I've a couple friends who used to live there in the 1990s and they told me some of the winters in that region could be very cold with lots of snow, they didn't like the snow so the moved here.
I wouldn't mind if our region would get back it's wild grasses but the Europeans who settled here didn't want it around.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
13 Aug 16
@rebelann lots'f the native grasses here've been destroyed sadly. 'twixt the farmers'n city slickers they've done a number'n the lands. there's trees'n albuquerque, once ya get'n the mountain' 'n 'long the bosque. albuquerque, santa fe'n those areas, those forested lands, get less annual rainfall than we're 'pposed to here.
the only way to get the native grasses back's to plant 'em. i've done such here some years back. spendy schtuff, that grass seed! cost me nearly $300 fer a half acres worth. 'twas beautiful though 'n worth the effort. then the drought came'n i fell ill - they hubs o'ergrazed 't, let't go to weeds. i was heartbroken :(
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@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
1 Aug 16
Well, not only do I live in Ohio, but I live somewhat in the country, so I have to drive away from home to see beyond the trees. These are beautiful pictures though, makes one feel like the whole world is laying at his or her feet. Of course I don't know if I could live without trees, the shade they give as well as the beauty (and some fruit and nuts) is too good to pass up.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Aug 16
Glad you like my photos and I do agree with you, I've been trying my best to get trees to grow on my little half acre and so far only the Elms and Mondale pines do really well.
It would take a lot of water to get other kinds of trees to grow well here, the soil I have is compacted gray clay with high alkaline.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Aug 16
So far the only pines I could get to grow here are the Afghan Pines @Carmelanirel2 I have 3 of them.
@Carmelanirel2 (8085)
• United States
2 Aug 16
@rebelann Yes, trees need a lot of water and though I love hot weather, I wouldn't be able to live in the south because one of my favorite scents is pine and pine trees can't grow where it is hot and dry all the time.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
31 Jul 16
And you can see for miles and miles and miles and miles and................
@teamfreak16 (43669)
• Denver, Colorado
1 Aug 16
Well, we live at the foot of Pikes Peak, so maybe a half mile. To the east, depending upon which trail I'm on, about 15-20 miles tops.
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@teamfreak16 (43669)
• Denver, Colorado
1 Aug 16
@rebelann to the east it's flat and lots of farming. If I get on an elevated trail I can see a good ways. They say you can see Kansas from the top of Pikes Peak.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Aug 16
I've heard that from a friend of mine, one of her kids lives in Colorado Springs @teamfreak16
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
1 Aug 16
i do not have to go anywhere for getting horizon views. I get them right from my house.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
2 Aug 16
Glad you like the view. I wish I had enough trees to produce a good layer of leaves, that would help augment the clay soil I have.
@Daljinder (23193)
• Bangalore, India
1 Aug 16
I can't see past all the houses and buildings around where I live. There are few mountains and around those used to be a fairly vast area. I loved it. But humans descended the area and now new establishments are been constructed here.
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@rebelann (117275)
• El Paso, Texas
1 Aug 16
The same has happened here, I took the above photo in the early 1980s but now there are more houses and stuff which I do not like. They even built a new highway on the road that I took this from so finding a place to pause and take another photo will not be easy.
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