What can you see from your office? [Archive]

TimH

10-21-2004, 04:07 PM

You wont believe what just happened. something big just crashed into the sliding glass door right next to me. I look over and see feathers flying, look out and there is a Harrier right there on the ground with a dove in its talons! He kind of shook it off and flew off into the trees....WOW....no time to even get the camera!

Not outside an office per say, but right next to my desk at home. Only bad thing is the dove was still struggling.

AND I have a Raven in my dog kennel that I caught in a field this morning while going to breakfast. Not sure whats wrong with him, he looks fine, just cant fly. I need to get a better look at him, but even though they arent technically raptors, my leather gloves arent thick enough against those feet and beak. What a weird day....

alteran

10-21-2004, 04:49 PM

Hanging, swinging rifle targets. Turn my desk chair 45 degrees, open the window and shoot.

And when I'm not shooting I see deer, wild turkeys, sandhill cranes and once in a great while a black bear.

Fitz

10-21-2004, 05:26 PM

The Mystic River.

DougWilde

10-21-2004, 07:40 PM

The Secret Service.

paladin

10-21-2004, 07:44 PM

Hey Doug...I know where you are...........

and in answer to the question....straight out into the Chesapeake Bay....

DougWilde

10-21-2004, 07:54 PM

Yeah, can hardly wait for them to start tearing down the old Convention Center.

And I took this entire week off, not going anywhere but staying home. Last week the advance forecast in the Post said it would be 79 on Wednesday. I was hoping for a second sail in Williwaw. Nothing but cold and wet all week. Instead I spent some of those days at the Archives and today at the Navy Yard researching ships so it wasn't a total wash.

Doug

mmd

10-21-2004, 08:32 PM

Possibilities...

Barry

10-21-2004, 08:34 PM

The Ten Mile River

http://www.cyberrentals.com/CA/King2NOCA/indiv2.JPG

alteran

10-21-2004, 08:42 PM

Originally posted by JTA:
4 friggin walls, but if I look out the door I can watch a shuttle engine being tested!"I live in a very small house but my window looks out on a very large world."
Eh? smile.gif

[ 10-21-2004, 09:43 PM: Message edited by: alteran ]

Steve Lansdowne

10-21-2004, 09:15 PM

In my previous third floor office one day I looked out and saw a hot air balloon floating by not but 300 or so feet away.

Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )

10-21-2004, 09:26 PM

In my previous third floor office I used to see the WTC then this happened :(

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid79/p3ab29b7667bf94bf5124e712e2178ce6/fb1fc462.jpg

This thread just made me think of all that and man now I am depressed. the photo was taken on the roof by a janitor in my building :( :( :(

imported_Dutch

10-21-2004, 09:58 PM

thank god in heaven above, i'm not required in this life to look upon a dead sea of concrete in order to live

JimConlin

10-22-2004, 12:21 AM

A leafy 'burb street.

Bob Smalser

10-22-2004, 12:48 AM

What can you see from your office? http://pic3.picturetrail.com/VOL12/1104763/3297171/40432487.jpg

Andrew Craig-Bennett

10-22-2004, 02:29 AM

Come on, Scot, where's that "envy" graemlin! ;)

Actually I have two offices; from the one in London I see a car park and the back of a Wal-Mart. From the one in Felixstowe Dock I can see a truck park - but at least we hear the seagulls, there.

skuthorp

10-22-2004, 04:45 AM

Suburban back yards. Trees, clothes lines, vegetables birds, dogs and cats, fruit trees etc. Not too bad really
:cool:

Oyvind Snibsoer

10-22-2004, 07:28 AM

http://norphoto.no/r/images1/norphoto5366.jpg
My office is in an old wooden warehouse, just to the left of the tall ship in the middle of the photo. The warehouse is built on wooden pillars over the sea, and I can, literally, fish from one of the office windows. Sitting at my desk, however, I look straight at the inner parts of Bergen harbor with Bryggen and the fish market. Behind the fish market are autumn-colored mountains.

The ferry for Iceland and the Faeroe Islands is just leaving, and I can actually feel the entire office vibrate as the propellers churn in the water! The ferry docks at the pier just on the opposite side of the bay, where you can see the two cruise ships.

Apart from that, it's a gray and rainy autumn day, and all the tall ships have left. Sorry I don't have a camera, BTW.

(Edited for spelling)

[ 10-22-2004, 08:48 AM: Message edited by: Oyvind Snibsoer ]

Joe ( Cold Spring on Hudson )

10-22-2004, 07:44 AM

Oyvind WINS !!!! :D

alteran

10-22-2004, 07:56 AM

Oyvind. Your picture reminds me of the ship carrying rock that turned over a year or so ago not far from you. What was the final determination of the cause? And what if any disipline was handed out?

Walked down the street right by your office a couple years ago. Would have waved if I had known you were there. smile.gif

Figment

10-22-2004, 08:16 AM

Other offices.

Oyvind Snibsoer

10-22-2004, 08:24 AM

Alteran,
no one has been punished, and the responsibilities ave been pretty much pulverized. The actual cause of the accident was that the ship struck a submerged, unmarked rock. The maritime inspector critizises the pilot for not keeping to the center of the sea lane, but instead keeping a little to starboard. The ship had then entered the red sector of the light that it was steering against.

OTOH, the authority responsible for marking the sea lanes is criticized for not emphasizing the danger of the submerged rock which had only recently been discovered, and of which the pilot was unaware.

No legal charges have so far been raised against any party, however.

Mrleft8

10-22-2004, 08:28 AM

Five deer browsing on the green stuff left in the garden, and one large dog, lying in a sawdust pile watching the deer, with no intention of chasing them.

Don Olney

10-22-2004, 08:51 AM

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid21/p31d8b5863cfe5bca205c8ac7d553ef6d/fdb5469d.jpg

I'll trade offices with Oyvind though.

Dale R. Hamilton

10-22-2004, 08:59 AM

I'll bet Oyvind can knock off for lunch, stroll down to the fishmarket, and have a nice pickled herring sandwich and a cold beer for lunch. Damn, and all I have are 4 blank walls, a govt-issue steel desk, and lunch when it comes out of a brown paper bag.

Billy Bones

10-22-2004, 09:01 AM

http://pws.prserv.net/usinet.rzstarr/index/snstvw.JPG

McB

10-22-2004, 09:21 AM

Sorry no pictures.
If I look out my office to the north I see Saloon 10 where Wild Bill was shot. If i look to the East I see Mount Moriah Cemmetary where He and Calimity Jane are burried. To the West and South Only hills, Pine trees and a couple of crumbling building from the Homestake Mining Company. No Boats. One small stream with Brook Trout.

WindHawk

10-22-2004, 09:25 AM

From nine stories up, the Grand River, which is not as "grand" as the name implies, but it beats a concrete jungle.

Bob Quick

10-22-2004, 09:29 AM

Right now, 0 dark 30. When it finally decides to lighten up, rain. If that stops, maybe next year, my truck. If it gets really nice I can almost see the West Valley Highway. And bloomin' idiots on the other side of the phone.

I want one of those cool maritime jobs like you guys.

Bob

Bob Quick

10-22-2004, 09:31 AM

mmd

10-22-2004, 12:32 PM

I was where Oyvind is, too! I was working on an oceanographic research ship and we tied up at the wharf in the centre bottom of the photo, right across the road from the green-roofed stone building in the lower right.

Bergen is a lovely city. We North Americans don't have the atmosphere of "old" like western Europeans do. Bergen's downtown buildings are over 400 years old - the best we can do is maybe 200, and them's few and far between.

Greg Stoll

10-22-2004, 12:44 PM

Actually I have two offices; from the one in London I see a car park and the back of a Wal-Mart. From the one in Felixstowe Dock I can see a truck park - but at least we hear the seagulls, there. Dear Lord, they have Wal-Mart outside America? My greatest sympathies...

From my office window, I can see a gravel parking lot with a creek on the other side. Right now it's raining and dreary.

When I'm out and about in the Ambulance or Fire Engine, I get to look at pretty wooded hills, green pastures, and a network of irrigation ditches. Not too bad...

Greg

George.

10-22-2004, 03:28 PM

Ilha Grande. The bay. About 100 species of bird (not all at once). Three dogs. Lots of wooden trawlers, and a couple of big dugout fishing canoes with engines. On weekends, lots of plastic boats. The occasional whale, tanker, and sail-training ship.

DougWilde

10-22-2004, 06:28 PM

Oyvind, have you ever heard of the....mud shark?

Doug Wilde

slacker

10-22-2004, 06:59 PM

Usually the back of another car... it helps when they have interesting and entertaining bumper-stickers.

ken mcclure

10-22-2004, 08:18 PM

In the last few weeks, from the windows of my office I have seen:

Much of rural Ohio - lots of corn fields waiting to be turned under for sleep till spring; lazy streams and rivers just begging me to stop and drop a hook - almost guaranteeing me a fish dinner; grain silos standing and smiling and assuring me that there'll be Wheaties for mornings to come.

Some of Western New York - charming village; lush vineyards; farmers driving their tractors and waving to me; Canadian drivers on the highways - southbound ones with tense, nervous expressions and northbound ones with tans and smiles and bags of stuff in the back seat; and a couple of really big waterfalls.

Mountains and valleys in West Virginia - looking down on valleys filled with fog early in the morning and filled with fall color when the sun burns through.

Next week I'll see the Chesapeake.

Three weeks from now I'll see the St. Lawrence seaway.

This has got to be the greatest office in the world.

Except, maybe, Oyvind's. smile.gif

PeterSibley

10-23-2004, 06:11 AM

Oyvind wins hands down smile.gif smile.gif Mines pretty good too but I can't post a photo...don't ask..heavy bush and the edge of Lamington National Park rising up 1500 feet above me.The place is looking just fine at the moment...we had 5 1/2" of rain last week,first rain for 6 months, it was very, very dry ! :(

Ken Hutchins

10-23-2004, 07:03 AM

Looking out one window all I see are trees, when looking out the other window I see what some of the trees have been converted into. ;)
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid81/p689d5c57d6b6664536db7ea0e3e8aee5/fafd4abd.jpg

Hwyl

10-23-2004, 10:56 AM

People in BMW's playing Russian Roulette with 12 tons of steel loaded with 15 tons of rock and a driver pondering how to make the plank lands fit on a false stem

Venchka

10-23-2004, 11:36 AM

The Blue Angels made another identical pass overhead yesterday. And the same today. We can see most of the Air Show from the levee behind my building. All the aircraft commotion has the hawks, bald eagles and pelicans ducking for cover.

Some of Y'all have way better office views than mine. If you call being retired and looking out the window an office view. :D Not fair at all!

Wayne
Still laboring away for a few more years in the Swamp. :D

George.

10-23-2004, 01:10 PM

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid144/p483b3f3cc580e66730299560c1b57ac7/f689d2b4.jpg

Of course, Dalia is actually never in the view when I see it, since I am on board whenever she goes out...

George Jung

10-23-2004, 02:04 PM

Oyvind....can I carry your luggage? Or how about "Bwana.... use the 9 iron". :D
That's picturesque; sent a copy of it to my mother, who dearly would love to visit Scandanavia. Maybe that'll get the juices going
If I look out my door, I see the mighty Missouri river , maybe 100 feet away. Rolling bluffs, usually eagles soaring overhead. Or geese (or both!) in season. Lots of cedars, mixed with hardwoods, in the bluffs, so very nice this time of year. (Tried to post a photo - no luck).
McB, I've partaken of sustenance in that bar; good times, good times!
Threads like this are my reason for hanging around the bilge. I can't believe the interesting places, and people, that come here.

George Jung

10-23-2004, 02:22 PM

I might submit BrianW's 'workplace' as a real contender; check out "Some Alaska Flying Pictures"

WFK

10-24-2004, 11:23 AM

I see the wood stove made it through the night......I better get down there and check the paint job!
Margo, If you think you'd like to move to the N.W. I've got the perfect shop for Sarah to be finished out. ;) http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid144/pee5487239e621e124dea1418bc77730e/f686da82.jpg

John Blazy

10-26-2004, 07:05 PM

My office was my boat today. I sat in the front seats and labeled all my glass samples and made sample kits out of them. All while doing about 2 knots up and down the river, rapping on the tiller with my paddle every so often to keep on course (don't want to reach over and steer by hand in such comfy seats).
Its so tough running a glass business.

Billy Bones shouldn't be allowed on this thread :D

martin schulz

10-27-2004, 03:22 AM

...is the competition still on ???

Here is a pic taken in my office. I sincerely appologize for the bad quality, but all I had was a chep digital-camera - but I guess you'll get the picture ;)

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid144/pf00cd5fe9e969f8c2e192921fff09774/f67cd0a4.jpg

...and don't get to finnicky about that bakery-bag with cakes lying on the table...

Dave R

10-27-2004, 10:51 AM

No pictures from my office but then no windows either. :(

Definitely envious of Oyvind's office.

Steve Paskey

10-27-2004, 11:09 AM

A two-story McDonalds at a busy downtown Washington, DC intersection, with nondescript office buildings behind it.

I'm gonna declare myself the loser on this one . . . Anyone want to contest that?

[ 10-27-2004, 01:04 PM: Message edited by: Steve Paskey ]

paladin

10-27-2004, 11:58 AM

...and right now...a couple more tree rats...and a very young ground hog that Critter izz trying to make friends with and getting rejected....

Paul H

10-27-2004, 12:06 PM

Well, I can see the Chugach Mountain Range, Alaska Mountain range and on a real clear day, can make out the edges of Mount Makinley, but unfortanately another building blocks that view. We've been having flocks of geese and ducks fly right by the windows, seems 5th floor is about the right height.

We also had the Blue Angels visit this summer, and we could see most of their pattern when they practiced, and got a good buzz or two. Since the view also includes Elmendorf Air Force Base, we get to see F-15's, various transports, and the occasional AWACS.

(I must confess the best I've seen of the blue angels was when I worked at NASA Ames at Moffett Field in CA, and a bunch of us went out on the NASA tarmac to watch the practice. They were literally flying right over our heads, pulling very tight turns and you could see the vortices over the wings and the pilots helmuts. Of course I'd removed my camera from the car the day before.)

Backk to Alaska, in the winter, since daylight is sparse, we get to enjoy mountain sunrises and sunsets, as in 10:30 sunrise, 3:30 sunset. Almost forgot, we had a black bear visit the parking lot this summer, and there is always the occasional moose (this is the middle of Anchorage). We saw an incredible rainbow yesterday, from Cook Inlet over the Chugach mountains.

I can kinda glimpse Cook Inlet, but there really isn't much boating activity there.

Steven R

10-27-2004, 12:43 PM

Taken a few weeks ago

http://www.get-outside.com/misc/work_rainbow.JPG

Steven Roberts

dmede

10-27-2004, 12:57 PM

Wait, wait, wait.... you guys have jobs??

I figured you were all out of work, recovering alcholic, christian fundimentalist, left and right leaning nut jobs with nothing to do all day but surf boating forums and start pollitical trolls. ;)

Venchka

10-27-2004, 01:26 PM

Yes...so what's your point? :D

Wayne
WoodenBoat Forum surfing when the boss isn't looking in the Swamp. :D

Bob S

10-27-2004, 02:24 PM

I have my office set up in front of a picture widow of our walk out basement, over looking a cove of Goguac Lake. Lots of wildlife and probably the best bass and pike fishing on the lake right off the dock. Unfortunately the view is partially block by my boat house. :D