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This is a question that has been on my mind for many years, and this seems as good a place as any to ask.
My ideal weather/time of year is Spring. Autumn comes in second, but Springtime is where my heart is. Winters are so gray and cold. Summers are brutal with insects (esp. MOSQUITOS), and high sticky humidity, that i actually have to hibernate indoors all summer.
I've always wanted to move around the earth to wherever it is Springtime, but don't know where to look for that information. When it's summertime in the USA (June thru August), where on earth is experiencing their Springtime?
Are there any places in the Northern Hemisphere that doesn't have MOSQUITOS?
For eternal Springtime, your best bet is tropical or deep subtropical highland. At tropical latitudes, temperatures don't vary as much over the course of the year, so sea level locations have eternal summer-like temperatures, high altitude locales eternal winter and areas in between enjoy constant springlike conditions.
The fountain garden shots were takes in Sceaux park, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
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In this pic above I got fooled. The Hedge on the left was something I thought to stay green all year round then I saw it disappeared in the fall and it also looks like trees not hedges. Interesting.
Yup I believe these are chestnut trees. They're about 30 feet tall. Not a fan of manicured trees otherwise, but they work well in French- and Italian-style gardens.
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What type of spider is that? Looks aggressive. I can deal with our giant house spiders, but that is one evil looking motherfucker.
Found out that it's a segestria florentina. Apparently they eat moths, cockroaches, bees and wasps. I'd rather have one spider around instead all of these pests. It's a female and it has layed eggs in the same spot. Soon dozens of juveniles will come out and, maybe, eat their mother.
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Its bite is reportedly quite painful. It has been compared to a "deep injection", and the pain can last for several hours.
Though, Manhattan can do better. A "seven storey montrosity" in the hearth of Manhattan? That sounds like the discourse of Parisian NIMBIES. Their city deserves more than this!
What else is new.. Nice to be in a forum where you can express your opinion because stories like that truly disgust me. But for NYC who cares, that's fine with me...
I do a lot of travelling and see so many structures going up that was once either open land or single story buildings and it mostly hurts when its in a residential area or an area with nice scenic landscape.
Here was a stand alone gas station in Greenwich, CT on Route1 Post Road. Used to be able to see the trees behind there. Now a tall 2 story building going up. This is a small scale example.. I have more.
It's getting Claustrophobic in many spots.
There was a beautiful Italian resturaunt in one residential spot I drive through many times, which got approved to be taken down and a 11,000 square foot "facility" for assisted living to be put up. The neighbors there are furious!! Machines, trees taken down, traffic, pollution, ect
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