# Things you think are truly beautiful **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 24, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792 "2010-11-24T17:27:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/41 "2010-11-28T00:05:17Z")
This one is going to seem weird to most of you. My father’s death was truly beautiful. The family were all there and witnessed the moment he left this life. It was incredibly peaceful and relaxing. As an FYI, he had Alzheimers and pneumonia. As hard as it was to let him go, it was beautiful to watch the confusion and pain leave him shortly before he left us. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/42 "2010-11-28T03:23:11Z")
Most members of the animal kingdom. Cats, snakes, lizards, foxes, fruit bats, rats, mice, ferrets, weasels, salamanders, mantises, and all creatures furry, feathery, and scaly. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/43 "2010-11-28T03:37:16Z")
The sound of a train in the distance. A lightning storm. Dusk in a city. A sky full of stars (no light pollution). Puppies. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/44 "2010-11-28T04:11:57Z")
Precision flight teams like the USN Blue Angels, the RCAF Snowbirds and the USAF Thunderbirds. ---
**Author:** ![Sodalite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Sodalite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sodalite)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/45 "2010-11-28T06:38:54Z")
Well done animation. I just can’t get enough of it. Something about the way the colors and the movement come together, combined with knowing all the work that must have gone into it, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/46 "2010-11-28T10:23:21Z")
raindrops on kittens? bright copper mittens? ---
**Author:** ![Lightlystarched](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Lightlystarched](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightlystarched)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2010, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/47 "2010-11-28T17:51:26Z")
Gorgeous slabs of wood. Especially ones with beautiful chatoyance. The color combination grey and white. Pears. The shape of pears. ---
**Author:** ![scootergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@scootergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scootergirl)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/48 "2010-11-29T07:00:59Z")
Diatoms. [http://www.google.com/images?q=diatoms+images&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=i0\_zTJbxBonWtQO9pO2zCw&sa=X&oi=image\_result\_group&ct=title&resnum=1](http://www.google.com/images?q=diatoms+images&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=i0_zTJbxBonWtQO9pO2zCw&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=1) ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/49 "2010-11-29T08:31:20Z")
The songbirds that come to my backyard feeder, even in winter. The mountains. The birds that ride on the mountain currents. A still mountain lake. The bears that live near the mountain lakes, and who make themselves known on occasion. Newborn kittens. Similarly, newborn horses and cows. I sometimes wonder how many animals I’ve brought into this world, without having any idea what I’m doing. Thankfully, Mother Nature usually takes care of all the details for me, and she tells the mothers what to do. The mother animals tell me what to do. I do what Mama tells me, and somehow, we get kittens and puppies and foals and calves. I am always in awe. Dawn on a humid Ontario morning, when the blades of grass have discrete dewdrops on them. Cats. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/50 "2010-11-29T16:51:41Z")
I’ll add to my list, based on things in this thread: Gnarled old trees Eroding stone staircases Stone ruins in general are numinous, especially if they’re overgrown. I don’t know why. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/51 "2010-11-29T17:01:16Z")
Lakes Oceans Deserts Canyons Sunrises Sunsets Old cathedrals ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/52 "2010-11-29T17:16:42Z")
[Martello Towers](http://www.martellotowers.ie/6%20MT%20Balcarrick.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/53 "2010-12-01T15:45:33Z")
Very cool photo from a Farktography contest. SFW, I promise. [http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Icy-Fence\_6006b.jpg](http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Icy-Fence_6006b.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/54 "2010-12-01T16:38:37Z")
Letterpress on thick, squishy paper. I’m having paper-gasms at Etsy today. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792/55 "2010-12-01T16:48:52Z")
> [@Avarie537](#): > > Very cool photo from a Farktography contest. SFW, I promise. [http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Icy-Fence\_6006b.jpg](http://photos.imageevent.com/ulle17/fark/Icy-Fence_6006b.jpg) very nice, and perhaps another example of my previous suggestion > [@](#): > > posted by Novelty Bobble - > In the ever-present "“what is art” debate I often think that what “good” or “successful” art does is to give the observer an equivalent emotional response that we get from nature or natural phenomenon. Chain link fence = fish scales? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-think-are-truly-beautiful/561792.md?page=2)