Outside your window...

[RikerChick 5]

The smoke from the west valley brush fire drifting over our house yesterday

 

How close to the ground is the smoke? Or is it just high in the air?

 

It's high up and the wind has shifted today. We live near Scottsdale (north east Phoenix) and this is in the south west. You could smell the fire but it's not hard to breath or anything like that. Not this far east anyway. Made for a beautiful sunrise though.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

In keeping with the title of this thread I decided to take a timelapse video "Outside my window". I downloaded some software for my laptop and hooked up a webcam, set the cam in a perch on the window sill and started it recording. 1 frame every 5 seconds with a playback rate of 30 frames per second. So it I caluclated right when it's playing each second of video is equal to about 2 and a half minutes of real time.

 

It starts at about 4:30 am and runs to about 9:00 pm so it's "Sunrise to Sunset". In it you can really see the smoke blowing through the yard at times and a little more than half way through the video you can see the lighting get dark and a thunderstorm roll in. It rained for about a half hour but only lasts for 4 or 5 seconds on the video. I'm going to play with the settings, maybe double the playback rate and may try to record a few months worth just for fun and watch the season change from Summer to Fall to Winter. It'd be great to catch a snowfall.

 

[RikerChick 5]

Very cool Kevin, I should try to do something like that some time.

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Very cool Kevin, I should try to do something like that some time.

Thanks, if you could get a dust storm that would be real cool.

[RikerChick 5]

Yeah, I've got to get a video of a dust storm this summer.

[KIMIMELA 1]

Outside the computer room window is our driveway. Right under the windowsill is our Blue Ford KA car, then behind that is the lawn and the rockery. Then to the right of the window is my dad's van. Oh, and both sides of the window is some beautiful flowers in the baskets .

[RikerChick 5]

The sunset tonight

 

 

[Kor37 9]

Arizona has the most beautiful sunsets.

[RikerChick 5]

For anyone who's never seen a dust storm. It's the time of the year for these again here in Phoenix. Personally I love them.

 

[Kor37 9]

For anyone who's never seen a dust storm. It's the time of the year for these again here in Phoenix. Personally I love them.

 

They aren't so great when you are driving through them!

[A l t e r E g o 9]

It amazes me how closely that resembles, sans the buildings, how sandstorms on Mars appear.

 

I'm not going to post a pic, just imagine a set of stairs leading to the second story as viewed from the side, a sidewalk to our door between me and it with pebble garden filling out the remainder and that's my view. It's dull but inexpensive.

[Corina Arazius 1]

Well I finally got around to taking some pics. I wasn't really sure which window to do but I decided on my bedroom window.

 

[Kor37 9]

Hmmm....is that Van Roy hiding underneath the deck?.......

[Corina Arazius 1]

[RikerChick 5]

Looks like a beautiful area Corina

[Indy 8]

I saw this topic, so I thought I'd post this pic. Obviously, I didn't take it recently, it was last December, but it was taken from the back bedroom window of our house.

 

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And I must admit, I photoshopped it a bit. Plus, it's a panorama, so I put it in a spoiler.

[RikerChick 5]

Wow Indy, that's an incredible view.

[RikerChick 5]

I forgot I had this. This is a video I took out of our dining room window two years ago.

 

 

And some pics (from the phone so not high quality) from tonight's storm taken from our front porch.

 

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[Indy 8]

This morning:

 

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[Mr.Picard 12]

Well it's not the view outside MY window but outside my grandmother's window (I asked her if I could take a pic of her garden, so it's all good):

 

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[Kor37 9]

Thats beautiful, Mrs. Picard and I see the Travelocity gnome there too.....

[Mr.Picard 12]

Thats beautiful, Mrs. Picard and I see the Travelocity gnome there too..... :(

 

Thanks, I'll tell her that you liked it! Yes my grandmother loves garden gnomes.

[Mike 5]

Such beautiful pics..You wouldn't want to see the sad view outside my window.. :( I rarely have my curtains open for that reason..

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Well it's not the view outside MY window but outside my grandmother's window (I asked her if I could take a pic of her garden, so it's all good):

 

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Beautiful area. I was always a little sorry that I wasn't stationed in Germany while I was in the Army. I'd have gladly traded Texas for Germany.

[Mr.Picard 12]

Thank you, SpaceTigger!

 

Beautiful area. I was always a little sorry that I wasn't stationed in Germany while I was in the Army. I'd have gladly traded Texas for Germany.

 

Aww thank you, VBG. :( You would have liked it here, I'm sure.

[RikerChick 5]

Beautiful pictures Indy and Mrs. Picard.

[Corina Arazius 1]

Such beautiful pics..You wouldn't want to see the sad view outside my window.. :( I rarely have my curtains open for that reason..

 

 

Lol well it can't be that bad

[VaBeachGuy 12]

This is from a 2006 sunrise:

 

 

 

 

These are from earlier this year a Moonrise:

 

 

 

 

[RikerChick 5]

A couple of older pics of our front yard and our street.

 

 

 

A pic of our neighbor's house on fire a couple years ago.

 

[VaBeachGuy 12]

Got any marshmallows?