Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 10, 2007 06:51 PM         

---

For example, I wish we had Fireflies here (aka Lightening bugs!)!!! How FUN!!

I also wish we had lightening here! Well, we have it only once or twice a year.....

What do you have that are common that you could do without? Earthquakes.

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 10, 2007 06:53 PM         

---

OHMYGOSH I had no idea that was so BIG!

IP: Logged

Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted July 11, 2007 08:12 PM         

---

I miss the sounds of the waves crashing into the shore. The tricking of a stream of water through a mountain ravine.

IP: Logged

Posts: 6657
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted July 11, 2007 10:21 PM         

---

I miss the Texas mockingbirds, southern red clay and sand dollars.

------------------
~
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

IP: Logged

Posts: 1177
From:
Registered: Jul 2005

posted July 12, 2007 04:36 AM         

---

;;

IP: Logged

Posts: 12680
From: *
Registered: Jun 2004

posted July 12, 2007 04:52 AM         

---

IP: Logged

Posts: 12680
From: *
Registered: Jun 2004

posted July 12, 2007 05:07 AM         

---

IP: Logged

Posts: 12680
From: *
Registered: Jun 2004

posted July 12, 2007 05:12 AM         

---

IP: Logged

Posts: 1826
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006

posted July 12, 2007 06:41 PM         

---

Living in South Texas I so, so, so much miss the snow at Christmas, the turn of the color of the fall leaves...

Juni---I LOVE Mockingbirds!!! Darn smart birds and awesome parents!

Neph---one evening, many years ago I went outside to witness a huge cloud of fireflies beneath an ancient oak...they were like tiny lanterns suspended in the heavy air of the humid evening...I will NEVER forget that image--ever!!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 2053
From: Kochi, India
Registered: May 2007

posted July 13, 2007 04:22 AM         

---

Snow! Never been in snow, and where I live a temperature of 25C (77F) is considered winter! The summer high can be 33C (91F), so we don't have much a variation in temperatures which is actually healthy. Living on a ocean side city, I do miss mountains which I dearly love, but for us, mountains are only a 1.5 hour drive away......

------------------
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves --> Carl Gustav Jung

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 13, 2007 11:32 AM         

---

Hippi ~ Sounds just like the image I recently sent you!!!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 1826
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006

posted July 13, 2007 12:53 PM         

---

Neph~~~

Yup!!! Piscean fantasyland!!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 13, 2007 04:20 PM         

---

Thanks everyone, wonderful replies!! Great visuals too!

Mockingbirds ~ we have a lot here. They chase the cats. They tease the cats. Does anyone know why they do this? They also chase the crows.

IP: Logged

Posts: 1826
From: The Ether
Registered: Jan 2006

posted July 13, 2007 04:26 PM         

---

It has long been said in my neck of the woods that the Mockingbirds chase cats, dogs, humans etc. to protect their young. And I have noticed this myself, when they are nesting they become particularly agressive, that is why I say they are awesome parents!!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 13, 2007 07:39 PM         

---

Hmmm......well all the mockingbirds here chase cats, in the middle of the street, to the backyard, etc. I don't think they are all mothers.

I really think that they are intentionally teasing the cats. It's pretty funny to watch. Our poor little Antoine was on top of the apple tree as a mockingbird lured him and tricked him into jumping over the fence from the top of the apple tree! He was practically walking on a tightrope!!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted July 16, 2007 01:59 PM         

---

I'm Going to Daytona!!! I can't wait to smell the ocean and hear the waves crashing in to the beach. We are leaving in the morning!!

IP: Logged

Posts: 9809
From: Still out looking for Schrödinger's cat. fayte1954@hotmail.com
Registered: Mar 2005

posted July 16, 2007 05:50 PM         

---

Nephthys http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002667.html

I miss cedars and smells and breezes in fir/spruce/pine forests, mountains and caves and the ocean.
I loved the desert at nite,
the moon was so huge and the stars so unbelievably bright all the way to the horizon!
So quiet! I miss that too.
I love Spanish moss but it is too hot where it grows.
I used to love snow but in the winter it can cost a 1/4 of one's income or more each month. And I fall too easily.

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 16, 2007 08:45 PM         

---

IP: Logged

Posts: 6657
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted July 19, 2007 08:40 AM         

---

The mysterious spanish moss swaying in the humid nights,

brilliant Azalea`s lining the streets and the historical antebellum homes.

------------------
~
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted July 19, 2007 11:56 AM         

---

THAT is something I want to see!!! The antebellum homes!!! OH do I want to go to the old South so bad! Someday!

IP: Logged

Posts: 6657
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002

posted August 01, 2007 08:41 AM         

---

I miss this thread continuing ..... and

boudin sausage balls, deep fried with

dirty rice.

------------------
~
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~

- George Eliot

IP: Logged

Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted August 01, 2007 06:27 PM         

---

Here is the Sunrise in Daytona. I was there for my Birthday.

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted August 02, 2007 11:04 AM         

---

I did think of something else.

Hot summer nights. This used to be common, when I was a youngster. We just don't have hot summer nights anymore. Now it cools off as soon as the sun sets. It's pretty cool during the night.

I mention it because it used to be fun to play outside at night when it was hot, and when I was a teenager, go out with friends, driving at night when it was really warm.

Come to mention it, we haven't had 1 heatwave this year yet!

IP: Logged

Posts: 4456
From: Stafford, VA USA
Registered: Feb 2005

posted August 02, 2007 06:58 PM         

---

it was 95 in Washington DC today. I took my daughter to the Zoo. SO HUMID! I really hate to go to the Zoo, but she has been begging to go.

IP: Logged

Posts: 3522
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001

posted August 02, 2007 07:37 PM         

---

Bluemoon,

We took my nephews to the SF Zoo last week. It was *exhausting*. Due to my sciatica, my legs and feet get sore from walking and standing so much ~ we must've walked for about 4 1/2 hours - I was exhausted for about 4 days after - not exagerating!!!

Another thing I miss ~ grasshoppers. When I was growing up, we had grasshoppers everywhere you looked - left and right. Now I can say that I pretty much never see any!

IP: Logged