From out east? Do you miss the green trees in Phoenix? (houses, live in)

[HumanNature]

When I lived in Arizona I thought the palm trees and other trees that stayed green year around were pretty cool but after a couple of years I got bored with them. When I returned east to visit during April to November it just seemed so pretty and green. I had never appreciated the beauty of a forest of oaks, elms and maples and the pretty light green of spring and the fall colors in October until I lived in Arizona.

Yes there are some pine forests and regular trees in Northern AZ but they were not as pretty as the forests of New England.

So... If you live in Phoenix, do you miss the green eastern types trees like we have east of the Mississippi?

[chazk14]

Originally Posted by HumanNature

When I lived in Arizona I thought the palm trees and other trees that stayed green year around were pretty cool but after a couple of years I got bored with them. When I returned east to visit during April to November it just seemed so pretty and green. I had never appreciated the beauty of a forest of oaks, elms and maples and the pretty light green of spring and the fall colors in October until I lived in Arizona.

Yes there are some pine forests and regular trees in Northern AZ but they were not as pretty as the forests of New England.

So... If you live in Phoenix, do you miss the green eastern types trees like we have east of the Mississippi?

I would take the forests up in the white mountains(arizona) over anything out east anyday.

[Ponderosa]

Not the forests. There is nothing like the forests of northern az (above say 8000) feet in the east that even compares - real mountains, aspen, lodgepole pine, elk. We got forests, the east has "woods". As for the green, it is lovely to look at in summer, but it also is brown and dead there - more so than here - for at least 6 months of the year.

[stephen431]

Originally Posted by HumanNature

So... If you live in Phoenix, do you miss the green eastern types trees like we have east of the Mississippi?

Yup. That's what Phoenix summers are for. Travelling.

If I moved back east, I'd miss the desert.

[DetroitN8V]

There's a lot of greenery even here in the valley. A different kind I suppose, but nothing that makes me miss the trees back in MI. Heck, they're a barren eyesore for 6+ months out of the year anyway.

[pokuku]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Not the forests. There is nothing like the forests of northern az (above say 8000) feet in the east that even compares - real mountains, aspen, lodgepole pine, elk. We got forests, the east has "woods". As for the green, it is lovely to look at in summer, but it also is brown and dead there - more so than here - for at least 6 months of the year.

You're comparing a tiny dot on a map with an entire region.

[DR2012]

Maybe I will later, but any place I lived back east was so flat. At this point I need mountains more than green.

[Jukesgrrl]

As Joni Mitchell once wrote, "You don't know what ya got til it's gone."

Personally, I got used to the desert surprisingly fast. Now when I see green lawns, I just think about people wasting water.

[chazk14]

Originally Posted by pokuku

You're comparing a tiny dot on a map with an entire region.

a tiny dot lol

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by CinSonic

a tiny dot lol

Big dot, little dot, I can see no further than where I am. And that brings up another thought, in the east the trees block the view. You can't see 100 feet across the road for all the leaves. It looks so different in winter when the leaves fall off and you can actually see the (limited) topography. I had a place in the Oklahoma Ozarks that I would visit in summer. I loved the seclusion there. I went back in winter once and was shocked how many other houses there were around me and how all my privacy had fallen away with the dropping of the leaves.

While I do enjoy the eye-candy green, it gets old compared to the exposed geology, the mountains, the ravines and canyons, the angularity of the landscape, and the play of light that one finds in western landscapes. There is nowhere in the east where the sky is so blue and the stars so many as right here in AZ (outside of the Phoenix area of course).