Guiveaoué II ( GAW french version) winner P4

[afishhunter]

I wasn't going to type it, but "I'm in." Thanks for the chance.
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back side yard where I can archery. The deer down at the far pine tree is a 3D archery target, courtesy Unker Donny, and his $1200 stimulus package.

Not sure what the room on stilts and small (concrete) basketball court with two baskets is about. I suspect this place might have been a private school at one time, or the residence of someone with kids, before becoming an assisted living facility.

Good luck to all who enter.

 

[abcdef]

I'm in.

I asked my wife to take a pic out the kitchen window, and she did. This is part of the neighbor's back yard. Note the special graph paper effect.

 

[Boattale]

These are the dog yardsView attachment 1912828. That's a beautiful and unique knife that I'd love to win. Thank you for the opportunity. I'm in.

 

[Just Tom.]

I’m in!
Here is the view out my kitchen window right now:

(Looks like I need to get the stepladder out and do some cleaning )

A somewhat less flattering view out the back:

And an aerial view of part of the neighborhood:

I live in an 800 square foot house in a neighborhood that was built in the 1950s, supposedly for WWII veterans with Veterans Administration loans. When I was growing up in the 1970s and 80s it was known as a working class white neighborhood, and it’s residents were known as “Brookies” (not an honorific…). Over the years the demographics have changed and the neighborhood is home to a wide assortment of folks from all over the world.

We are still considered the DC suburbs here, and I am just 2 blocks off a busy retail corridor, but I am within walking distance of a system of trails that can keep me in the woods all day if I want. The Potomac River and C&O Canal are within biking distance, and if you want to drive, Maryland has everything from seashore, to salt marshes and a massive estuary, pine forests of the eastern shore and southern Maryland, deciduous forests of the piedmont area, and the Appalachian mountains.

Mine is a multi-ethnic household, so being close to a major urban area with the types of groceries and institutions we need, but at the same time having easy access to the outdoors, seems like the best of both worlds.

 

[Angry Waiter]

Thank you Sir! I’m in. This is my view to work. Wednesday AM. And my favorite knife. Means so much.

 

[Just Tom.]

I'm in my workshop in an old industrial part of town, and out my window I can see the weed-choked and rusted rails of the Norfolk-Southern line. They are a wide and sere scar through the city; an anti-river. The detritus of torn plastic bags and broken bottles lines the sides of the cut like a high-water mark; a point where footsteps wander down and peter out among the trackless gravel, through torn and cut hurricane fences and bent Private Property signs, oxidized by time and disuse until a deep patina of inertia and stillness pervades them.

I love that, by the way. I can almost HEAR you banging it out on an old manual typewriter, and see the cigarette smoke swirling in the dusty rays coming through the shop windows.

When do we get to the part where the classy dame in trouble lures you out of your happy retirement job as a knife maker, to take on one last case?

PS - don’t do it, it’s a setup.

 

[cbach8tw]

Not an entry because the pics are not outside my window ( unless the OP thinks it ok ), but the view from the top of Chimney Rock, NC.

 

[Johnnythefox]

Thank you for the opportunity,very generous.



Hold onto your hat the excitement may get to you when you see my gaff

This is the view out of my rear window (no sign of James Stewart).

That's a railway track on the mound behind the trees that goes into a car factory owned by the Germans.
So I see Deutches Bundesbahn trains pass by every so often,more visible in Autumn when the leaves fall.

I also see squirrels running along my fence,cats and if lucky my little Robin hops on and has a look around.

Other than that its mostly peaceful which though boring I quite like

Theres no way to dress it up even if it snows it looks dull

 

[Will Power]

Thinking about views from houses in general; the sea or a lake would be ideal (but probably crowded with people) rivers I love but after seeing a friend's house flood I'm more wary...scenes of hills and farmland, views of ancient cities with landmarks, bridges , or up HIGH looking over a cityscape such as in New York or similar. Brings me to my ideal_ people in places like Switzerland or Italy actually live up mountains looking over valleys with peaks around them, sublime. Only thing is I have a great fear of heights, at least on balconies or exposed places. Since we've had a reference to Hitchcock from Johnnythefox it makes me think of my favourite 'Vertigo' probably because of my intense dislike of high exposed places with drops, and perhaps too because of Kim Novak and her Green Jaguar...some great views in that film.

And some of the WORST views possible? Personally I've experienced a couple: when living in Oulu large town in the far North I had one girlfriend who lived in a small but nice flat but it was right opposite a large chemical works that looked and smelled terrible, but then another colleague of mine lived overlooking what is impolitely called the shitfarm, the sewerage works and water purification plant, pipes, and tanks of stuff, generally ugly but vital . Worst case would be to live under street level with windows looking on to the road, peoples feet all day long.

Great GAW with a lot to enjoy and think about, but it all underlines the fact that whatever your view in life or on life, so long as there's beautiful knives around a lot can be tolerated

View when I look down

 

[Fodderwing]

Thank you J-M for a generous GAW. Count me in!

out one window
out another

 

[mitch13]

Very nice of you!
I'm in.
From the kitchen, oh yeah paver I laid in the front garden bed this very morning to try and protect it from people

 

[aji1]

This is an interesting GAW and a great knife! I am also a geographer by training, and inclination, and it is fun to see where some other members live. I'm in and thanks for the opportunity, JM.

This is the view from one of my living room windows. I am pretty urban; less than ten minutes walk from the city center (and about 10 minutes walk to the train station). The houses on my street mostly date from the late 1800's or early 1900's (mine was built in 1890). High ceilings and windows typical of Dutch houses from that period. The parking area in the middle was previously a tram line. After the tram was decommissioned, it was converted into a parking area and lined with chestnut trees.

 

[Will Power]

This is an interesting GAW and a great knife! I am also a geographer by training, and inclination, and it is fun to see where some other members live. I'm in and thanks for the opportunity, JM.

This is the view from one of my living room windows. I am pretty urban; less than ten minutes walk from the city center (and about 10 minutes walk to the train station). The houses on my street mostly date from the late 1800's or early 1900's (mine was built in 1890). High ceilings and windows typical of Dutch houses from that period. The parking area in the middle was previously a tram line. After the tram was decommissioned, it was converted into a parking area and lined with chestnut trees.

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Beautiful stain-glass window and nice tree shade for the cars, ideal and civic

Regards, Will

 

[euroken]

Always fun participating in these GAWs!! Thank you!

Some of you may have seen this before but this is what I see out of my kitchen to the backyard! (With a little knife involvement also)

 

[tongueriver]

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[Pàdruig]

Thank you for hosting such a nice giveaway! I would like to be in, please.
I'm afraid that French knives are a bit of a blind spot for me as I have none in my collection yet.

This is an older picture, showing a rare snowfall for us, but I get greeted with a view of this lovely creek every day.

(I kind of wish it was snowing right now - it is HOT over here)

 

[JohnDF]

I get greeted with a view of this lovely creek every day.

Are there fish in it?

 

[Vaporstang]

Awesome GAW! Fantastic photos also! (Not an entry.)

 

[screened porch]

Nice knife and great give-away but I am not entering. The mule deer was right outside my dining room window and the other pics are from my area in northern Wyoming USA.
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My dad would say that barn needs a lick of paint.

 

[meako]

Are there fish in it

YEP...and at least 7 species of wading birds, black swans,sea eagles and a fur seal...sometimes.

Its the windscreen view from my morning bus run ...Wallaga Lake.
Cheers (not an entry).