Whenever I turn on my sprinklers, I sit in the back yard and space out on them while they make the “chop, chop, chop, chop” sound and circle around and around. I would like to consider myself mechanically inclined, but these little sprinklers “amaze me”. Pure genius.
Now I know people are going to talk about their SO’s, so;
Things that amaze you every time you see them other than your SO.
Ok. I’ll be the first to say it:
Large, beautiful breasts never cease to amaze me.
There… I’ve said it. Happy?
The naked female form
Yosemite Valley. It is a breathtaking view. And El Capitan and Half Dome. Man, those are huge rocks.
Prague, Czech Republic. Sunrise, riding over the river on the tram after getting off the night train after a weekend away from the city. I’d look at it in wonder and say to myself “I live here” and pinch myself to be sure it wasn’t a dream.
Sitting on the beach,Tiger Tail Beach to be specific,at sunset. Watching the dolphins play against the sunrise.
Standing at the peak of the Cascade Loop and looking down into the Salt Lake Valley.
The drive up to Galena IL in the fall. Going up the hills and seeing the all the different colors of the fall foliage.
making little pieces of paper out of big pieces of paper using a paper shredder always fascinates me
When I go to the grocery store or drug store and see the countless choices of different brands of the same things there are to buy, and how clean and well-lit everything is. And how healthy and clean most people appear to be. The whole darned twenty-first century never ceases to amaze me. Marvelous!
The career of Martin Short amazes me. Why he is considered such a grand comic talent when he produces such incredible mediocrity I can’t fathom.
In relation to creaky’s post,
it amazes how many different colors of lipstick there to choose from. Literally thousands. With just the lipstick in one drug store, you could apply lipstick to every woman on the face of the earth and still have some left for all the drag queens. 
Bullet trains. Standing still or passing by at top speed, those things are just so cool.
The most incredible BT experience I had was standing on the platform at Yonezawa station, in northern Japan during a pretty heavy snowstorm. It was impossible to see more than 50 yards or so, and nothing much could be heard beyond that distance, either. One of the trains just appeared out of nowhere, blasted past no more than 2 meters away from me, then disappeared, leaving nothing but a cloud of snow whirling about the platform.
Beautiful.
–sublight.
I could see part of the lake from my dorm window this year, and I always found it breathtaking. It was blue in the summer, black (or white!) in the winter, and it always brightened up my day and made me feel more relaxed each time I saw it. The window faced south, but I could still see some gorgeous sunsets.
It’s fun to drive over the lake, on the Thousand Island Bridge, and seel all the little islands, and all the little boats, and all the big boats (oil tanker size). I’m still amazed that a lake that vast freezes (completely across? I don’t know. But I do know that people drive across it to the nearest island ) and that people can play hockey and ski on it.
I love water.
This is along the family lines.
My neice and nephew from my older brother and sis-in-law.
I am telling you, they are the most well mannered, absolutely most beautiful children I have ever known (considering their ages of 3 and 6.) I hope I am not saying that out of being their aunt but if I had children I would wish they would be as incredible as those two.
My other neice and nephew are beautiful too but something about my older brother’s children really gets me in the hearts strings. My heart just fills with love and joy when I see them…
The Egyptian pyramids.
Oh yeah, almost forgot this one:
Mt. Fuji.
My girlfriend keeps saying I look like a tourist for stopping to point it out every time it’s visible, but I just can’t get enough of it.
I like oceans, too. Something that big just needs to be stared at.
–sublight.
The way skin heals fascinates me. Every time I get a (stupid, annoying, painful) paper cut, I’m always a little bit amazed that it just fixes itself. I wish my shoes could fix themselves like that.
A dragonfly in flight, darting in a precisely controlled dance through sunlight as it hoovers up mosquitoes and gnats.
Birds taking to the air.
The sun. The moon too, for that matter.
The world in general. But seeing it often takes a special effort. Working at it, though.
2 things
The sky, the birds, and especially the trees just standing there–I wonder what the trees think about. Do they get bored standing there for centuries? How do they put up with us insensitive humans polluting the air and water. As fast as they work to change carbon dioxide into oxygen, or whatever it is they do with photosynthesis, here we come messin’ stuff up. Anyway, I do wish they’d gossip more. I’m sure they’ve got GREAT stories to tell.
Bookstores. Doesn’t matter if they’re new or used. I’m in awe everytime I step in one and see all those books and hear them crying out. Read me! No! Read me! Take me home with you, please!
The moon.
My God… the moon.
Every time I see it? Ooooh, toughie…
…think think think…
…tough call, but it’d have to be Apple Computer’s 22-inch Cinema Display screen. Twenty-two inches of widescreen LCD display digital clarity. I could plant myself in front of that for years.
(I’m a geek, so sue me. :D)
