# What is the most beautiful thing you’ve seen lately? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 11, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961 "2011-04-11T15:42:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/21 "2011-04-11T21:16:39Z")
It’s bluebonnet season here in Texas. A couple of houses have filled their _entire front yards_ with bluebonnets. Makes me want to do the same … ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/22 "2011-04-11T21:27:20Z")
My three year old son tenderly sharing his sandwich with his one year sister - damn near made a grown man cry. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/23 "2011-04-11T21:29:39Z")
> [@dawson](#): > > My three year old son tenderly sharing his sandwich with his one year sister - damn near made a grown man cry. I’d hate to have a socialist kid too. ---
**Author:** ![dawson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@dawson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dawson)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/24 "2011-04-11T22:18:00Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I’d hate to have a socialist kid too. Anything is better than the tyranny that he usually seems to favour! ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/25 "2011-04-11T23:06:33Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I rolled over and saw **RNATB** looking at **silenus** ’s wife. Mmmm mmm. _fans self_ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 8:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/26 "2011-04-12T08:42:48Z")
It was 82 degrees Sunday, one degree shy of the record for that date. It was wonderful to be outside without having to bundle up. A taste of summer, after a long dreary winter. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/27 "2011-04-12T09:15:32Z")
On Sunday it was an unusually warm and bright spring day so my husband and I went to Dunham Massey, a National Trust property. There was a lake there with the first ducklings we’ve seen this season. Watching them scurrying around the lake, which was beautifully still and reflecting the trees around it, was just beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![colonial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/34f0e0/32.png) [@colonial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colonial)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/28 "2011-04-12T09:24:58Z")
Dogwood and Redbud in full Spring bloom. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 9:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/29 "2011-04-12T09:47:20Z")
We have what looks like 2 cherry trees grown into 1 in the parking lot behind our apartment building. Recently it literally burst into bloom overnight, and it is HUGE. Then we got the wind and rain, which knocks all the blossoms off. They cover the ground and the cars in the faintest shade of pink, and it looks like a gentle snow has fallen. For a couple days, it’s all people talk about. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/30 "2011-04-12T10:04:57Z")
I was getting to work way too early, as usual. It was warm enough to be comfortable in a T-shirt, although the first light of dawn was baaaarely starting to show. Our six glass-cube buildings lit up for a company that’s so ecoconscious, this one is in serious need of a Person Who Switches Off The Lights, the fountains on the patio, a single star and a sliver of the moon against a sky barely on the blue side of black. > [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > It’s bluebonnet season here in Texas. A couple of houses have filled their _entire front yards_ with bluebonnets. Makes me want to do the same … Hey, those look a lot like lilas (might even be but IANABotanist). I was at the Alcázar and in one of the rooms it smelled very strongly of lilas; I poked my head out and sure enough, there was a trellis there completely covered with them. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/31 "2011-04-12T11:18:00Z")
> [@Mr.Excellent](#): > > I rolled over and saw **tdn** solidifying a new Doper meme. I rolled over and saw you killed it. You totally killed it! The route the bus takes on the way to my girlfriend’s house is by the ocean. In the springtime, the view of the soft light hitting the water over a vast expanse of infinite blue in the background and the speckled foam capering off the shoreline in the foreground was nigh sublime. My girlfriend’s rack was pretty nice too. ---
**Author:** ![Khaki\_Campbell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Khaki\_Campbell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khaki_Campbell)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/32 "2011-04-12T12:00:14Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > I’d hate to have a socialist kid too. No, a _real_ socialist would have given it to an illegal immigrant. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/33 "2011-04-12T13:07:26Z")
> [@Phlosphr](#): > > I saw my unborn child on a sonogram recently…nothing more beautiful, except my amazing partner. I concur. (Not your child, obv 😛 ) Edit… er, or partner! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/34 "2011-04-12T13:20:21Z")
I just went to the [Cinque Terre](http://www.fallonhome.net/italy/cinque-terre/) in Italy and the whole damn thing was beautiful, though Vernazza and Manarola impressed me the most. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/35 "2011-04-12T14:30:30Z")
A few days ago, I drove around several neighborhoods looking at the dogwoods blooming. No city in the world is more beautiful than Atlanta in the early spring. Last night my sister-in-law sent me some new pictures of my grandnephews and grandniece. Ain’t nothin’ more beautiful than them. ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/36 "2011-04-13T12:01:27Z")
I just got back from Key West, my brain is overloaded with beautiful things, but a few of them really stand out. A gorgeous, perfect orchid growing out of the crook of a tree, incredible sunrises and sunsets, a bunch of people stopping traffic on Duval Street to reunite a family of chickens, and most of all, my friends (none of whom had never been there, and all of whom badly needed a vacation) happy and loving it. My daughter, my boyfriend, and my cats all looked pretty damned good when I got home, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lorene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/65b543/32.png) [@lorene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lorene)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/37 "2011-04-13T12:21:07Z")
My sleeping kids, especially the way my son’s long and thick eyelashes fan out onto the swell of his chubby cheeks. ---
**Author:** ![Nathan\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/47e85d/32.png) [@Nathan\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nathan_S)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/38 "2011-04-13T15:56:37Z")
I had to drive to Urbino this morning for a court case. The gorgeous rolling hills, spring - green, were a sight to be seen. ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/39 "2011-04-13T16:27:27Z")
Those videos that were posted in the A-10 thread the other day. I was walking out the water after an inspection dive on Saturday at the lake and startled a Copperhead. It swam right past me. Luckily it’s mouth was already occupied by the fish it had. Otherwise the beautiful thing might have bit me. ---
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961/40 "2011-04-13T17:00:54Z")
I was at the beach with my wife and four year old granddaughter last Sunday. Around sunset, my wife and I saw four dolphins feeding about 50 yards offshore, leaping in perfect tandem. When my wife and I pointed them out to our granddaughter, she stared motionless in amazement for about 10 minutes – and this is a litle girl who has a hard time sitting still for anything. The combination of my granddaughter’s wonder, the dolphins, the ocean, and the sunset was so beautiful I could have cried. This is why I moved to Florida. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-beautiful-thing-you-ve-seen-lately/577961.md?page=1)