QotD: I Left My Heart in...
What do you love about where you live?
Submitted by Emu with a Clue.
I love the fact that I'm in the middle of nowhere. Very peaceful and quiet. Lots of space, and cheap!
Here's a photo taken from the back of our house nearing dusk. All we have to see is a lot of fields, which is nice.
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My husband and I live a ways from a major city, but it's still a residential area with a lot of house and street lights, so star-gazing can be kind of limited. That's just a minor complaint though. Otherwise, I love it here. More stars sure would be nice though.
Light pollution is pretty minimalistic. The closest city/town is called Longford, and it's about a 20 minute drive away. You can make out some orange in the distance at night, but generally star viewing is absolutely amazing.
I haven't gotten any good star photos yet, but I do have a nice one of the moon showing a full corona. I'll get that up here soon.
It's mental how much difference a few lights makes to the star viewing potential. Fortunately there's still a good few areas in Ireland which are pretty pitch black at night.
Today there are rabbits running all around the place. Spring is definitely here.
Well yeah, we're on the local grid, it's a rented house. About a half acre of land. No solar power, a near by stream (about 30 ft from the house) and it's costing us €600 a month for the whole place.
I'm pretty happy here I must say. Still, I'd prefer to own my own place, then all the solar power and other alternative energy things become possible :)