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Bo Zarts

(25,593 posts)
4. Sadly, we lost sweet Nick in 2018.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 06:48 PM
Sep 24

I just haven't had the heart to replace him. He was the perfect fire lookout dog.


Nick watching for deer from the fire lookout tower in Oregon in 2009.

hlthe2b

(106,237 posts)
10. Oh, I am so very sorry. I know how special he was to you. We never forget those 4-legged blessings in our lives.
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:35 PM
Sep 24
for Nick...

(now I know why the bear dared to come so relatively close)...

NJCher

(37,752 posts)
6. so you live in a glass house?
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:13 PM
Sep 24

How did you get that pic? Did you have to crawl up another mountain to take it?

Bo Zarts

(25,593 posts)
8. I finally got a drone just so I could get these types of photos ..
Tue Sep 24, 2024, 07:17 PM
Sep 24

A DJI Mini-3 PRO to be specific.

NJCher

(37,752 posts)
11. I'm sure you're aware of this
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 02:32 PM
Sep 25

but plenty of people would like to live in a glass house, but have no way to have privacy plus the glass house.

There are situations like this on the ground, but few and far between.

I had a friend who spent $40k on drapes for privacy for one glass wall on a house in the woods.

Anyway, lucky you, and I always enjoy your photographs. On this one I particularly liked the orange and yellow at the top and the gradation of the blues and greys of the mountain. Then the little glass house, all lit up. Very cozy.

Bo Zarts

(25,593 posts)
12. E.M. Forster would have called it "A Room with a View." But a view out is often a view in, too.
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 05:00 PM
Sep 25

The standard L-4 design for US Forest Service fire lookout live-in cabins, which specifies one 15'x15' "glass" room, goes way, way back. The glass .. while esthetically pleasing .. is to facilitate spotting forest fires .. nothing else. I have even worked in lookouts that are so old, and without remodeling, that they have "wavy" glass panes from the 1920s and 30s. And if someone can see in, even out in the wilderness, then it is totally their problem (in many more ways than one).

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