Do do do, Lookin' out your back door - what do you see?

"Look at all the happy creatures dancin' on the lawn..." (I love that line - great imagery. full lyrics below)

I'm an apartment dweller (cannot wait to live in a house where ALL the walls are mine mine mine), but when I look out my sliding glass door, I see trees and squirrels and the occasional feral cat. (and they all do seem pretty pleased with things)

What do you see out your back door?

Here's what this guy saw...
(I want some of what he was on ;-) )


Lookin' Out My Back Door
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Just got home from Illinois,
Lock the front door, oh boy!
Got to sit down,
Take a rest on the porch.
Imagination sets in,
Pretty soon I'm singin',
Doo, doo, doo
Lookin' out my back door.

There's a giant doing cartwheels,
A statue wearin' high heels.
Look at all the happy creatures
Dancing on the lawn.
A dinosaur Victrola
Listenin' to Buck Owens.
Doo, doo, doo
Lookin' out my back door.

Tambourines and elephants
Are playin' in the band.
Won't you take a ride
On the flyin' spoon?
Wond'rous apparition
Provided by magician.
Doo, doo, doo
Lookin' out my back door.

Tambourines and elephants
Are playin' in the band.
Won't you take a ride
On the flyin' spoon?
Bother me tomorrow,
Today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Doo, doo, doo
Lookin' out my back door.

Forward troubles Illinois,
Lock the front door, oh boy!
Look at all the happy creatures
Dancing on the lawn.
Bother me tomorrow,
Today, I'll buy no sorrows.
Doo, doo, doo
Lookin' out my back door.

my back door. It's about 50 miles as the crow flies. I'm up about 600' above sea level, so that helps... ;-)

there's bass in thar, and sometimes swans or herons. Lots of ducks, and geese.

there's very wet, icy little alleyway wherein resides the garbage and recycle, a makeshift parking strip, my neighbour the frat-boy's boom car, two rusty lawn chairs and a barbeque grill.

Oh it's picturesque.

I have a picturesque view of the crepe myrtles and the building next to mine out my patio door.

Isn't apartment dwelling fun? :D

beautiful, thank you very much. Sure make this place livable w/ all the Wingnuts that live around me.

A yard full of unraked leaves (5 old, big oak trees worth). Don't remind me.

;-)

hey, what is that sig line all about - the boat thing, not the short bus?

"you have to ask dolo amber" and leave it at that, but she'd eventually find this thread and beat me viciously about the head and shoulders for posting something so suggestive. In truth, her sig line has the original movie quote, and I have only bastardized it for shits and giggles in light of the DU "S-word" ban. ;-)

with a scuppernong grape arbor, the barn the woods further back.

On my right is a line of cedar trees framing the yard. To my left I see a holly tree, a peach tree and the wellhouse. Everything is turning yellow and red, leaves everywhere. Grass is still green.

Sometimes deer come by or a covey of quail. There are redtail hawks too. Oh, I forgot the monarch butterflies are making a comeback.

I see my backyard, which is the dog's latrine. And I've been tardy with latrine duty, rut-roh.

some other trees and vegetation. Behind that is a golf course, and the mountains are in the distance. It is a quaint town.

My house is on a very steep wooded lot, 19 steep steps up from the street. I have a great view of this little town. Backyard slopes up in two directions, it's wooded with a small shed at the top and a treehouse. Yard has little grass due to 4 dogs and I need to spread some more hay to combat the mud I'll get every time it thaws this winter. I also need to go out on dog doo doo pickup patrol. There's a 6 ft fence and beyond that is woods and the ridge top. I love looking out my bedroom windows every morning when I wake up.

but looking back out the side window, a good stretch of the Beltsville (MD) Agricultural Research Center. It's just inside the DC beltway.