What is your favourite kind of outdoors? I like rock gardens. My grandparents had a great one

[applegrove]

when I was a kid. And then I saw the beautiful Butchard Gardens quarry. I was blown away. I want one of my own some day but sadly will likely never own a house and garden of my own.

[femmocrat]

1. The ocean. It always seems like of surreal to me.

I hope you get a rock garden someday, applegrove. Even if it's just a little one.

[applegrove]

4. Oh you are so sweet femmocrat.

[Whisp]

2. we do a wilderness canoe/camping trip once a year

way out in the Canadian wilds.
The night skies out there,... are wild, whether it's a full moon or a moonless one there is something so special. A moonless night on a windless time out on a canoe.... the stars are reflected below you. oh, the beauty.

other than that I like my wild backyard. no grass, please. I have vines and plants that can survive our cruel winter weather and it's a growing jungle each year.

[applegrove]

3. I went for a white water canoe trip when I was 17. The Dumoine River in Quebec. 100 miles. It was

gorgious. And yes the stars are amazing.

[Justice wanted]

5. If I am actually outside a nice fall day with the leaves changing. Now if I am looking outside and

enjoying a view it would have to be a winter evening as the snow is falling.

[ellisonz]

6. Coastal sand dunes.

[hunter]

7. You might like this place...

http://www.undergroundgardens.com

Forestiere Underground Gardens, Fresno, California

I love places built by eccentric people.

Here's another:

http://www.rockome.com

Rockome Gardens, Illinois

And another:

http://coralcastle.com

Coral Castle, Florida

Which was the location of the fabulously eccentric movie Nude on the Moon



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nude_on_the_Moon (Not Safe for Work, but mildly so...)

Other than that, my favorite places in the world are the Southwestern U.S.A. and Northwestern Mexico deserts.

[petronius]

8. High Sierra above the treeline, for me

Second place would be rocky, wave-battered coastlines...

[clyrc]

9. Tree covered mountains

There's a little town in Arkansas, Eureka Springs, tucked away in the mountains, with lots of little springs. It's a tourist town, but I've loved it for decades and I secretly would like to live there. The sound of wind in the trees just does something to me, when I hear that rushing rustling sound I get shivers and thrills up and down my back.

[HeiressofBickworth]

10. I love the scent

of fresh flowers, a nice coastal breeze, trees.....

with a roof and indoor plumbing.

[alphafemale]

11. We liked this very much.

Havasupai

There's a guy about mid background to give some sense of scale.