Glenn, it sounds like you need something akin to the house of the Teletubbies...:-)
Maybe something like this?
http://www.naturalspacesdomes.com/
Seriously, Jostein
----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Glenn Arthur Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: OT: Selling the Family Farm - was: PESO Vanishing America
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:36:10 -0500, Graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Here in the mountains it is well off people who want a nice place with a view who build their million dollar house on a ridge. Ruining the view for everyone else, of course.
Not that I'm ever likely to be able to afford it, of course, but I've often daydreamed of a nice place with a view, on a ridge or a peak ... but I'd want to get it a particular way: either a _castle_ so that even though I'd be interrupting the _natural_ view, it'd at least be _scenic_; or a low-profile structure, much of it underground, with windows and entryways incorporated into the landscape, so that it wouldn't spoil the view much for casual observers without telescopes (and wouldn't require as much energy to heat and cool).
But then, every time I see a peak that looks like it'd be fun to live on, I'm seeing it from the highway looking up at it, and I can't help simultaneously thinking about how what I want would change the scene I'm looking at.
And I'm thinking "remote estate", not "development of McMansions".
And I've wanted a castle since I was very small.
-- Glenn
