I've just gone through a spectacular lightning and thunderstorm. My tomato plant looks sad.
I have lots of little birds on the lawn.

My lawn has grown a half inch inn the last hour

Big, brown and grey boring apartment blocks and a lot of cars in the parking lot. It looks like a ghost town in this chilly, windy weather.

thick grey clouds that may be bringing the snow the weathergirl has been threatening us with last two days.

my dog running around in the yard acting silly.

Snow.

I can see trees that still have some leaves, the other plain but charming (to me) buildings in my apartment complex, and the simple courtyard between said buildings.

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@Anne Caitlyn, I love your avatar.

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Both of our turkeys (Chocolate and Narragansett hens) and the peahen wandering the back porch.  They always do at this time of the day.  The geese and ducks are clustered around the outside of the Ameraucana coop.  Schroeder always takes guard duty while the rest nest in and doze, but they tend to wander the entire yard so it was just luck that they were there today.

All the rest of the chickens are in their coops instead of out and about.

A fancy restaurant, a bike shop, a bus stop, a yoga place with condos above it, a nine story building that has a huge sign on top, some other stores and apartments, and in the distance, beautiful tree-covered hills. There's a power line right in front of my window, and sometimes crows sit on it. I like that.

Edit - And lots of sky.

The Minneapolis Skyline in the distance, in the forground an urban ethnic neighborhood.

Huggs

Emily

I can see that OMG it snowed last night, but it's melted off everything but the parked cars and the trees. If I crane my neck I can see the expressway rising up over the neighborhood a couple blocks up. I'll be driving on that tomorrow. A touch of Chicago skyline.

I almost wish I was back at school in the library. It has the most amazing view of the Sears tower rising up over the treetops.

Lots of snow, ice on the roads, the fine arts complex, the student organization building and the police department. Oh, and a few pretty sorry looking trees. Lots of students heading to the airport to go home for the holidays.

I should add that my partner and I live in an apartment on a college campus.

It is evening.

I have a female blackbird being hassled by a male and female Shrike. Sparrows all over the place. My tomatoes are looking better after the storm.

This afternoon, I saw 39 wild turkeys mulling about in the front. My dog was just sitting watching them... pretty unusual for her. Yesterday, I watched 7 wild deer grazing for a half an hour or so.  It won't be long until the winter moss starts glowing its flourescent green. It is quite spectacular in the morning winter fog. The spring grass is already growing... and yes, I live in the northern hemisphere.  Ah... paradise!

Cindi

We get wild turkeys, deer, egrets, ducks, gulls, and other things (big ass raccoons) in the creek that's directly behind (Actually I think of it as front, it's where the deck and the big sliding glass doors are) the balcony.  It's pretty heavily wooded (despite being 3 blocks from the center of D-Town), the creek flows most of the year - raging in the winter.  It's very pastoral.

Two little girls in the place behind me on the trampoline with their Dad. 'Daddy you jump too high' Lots of giggles.

Kia Ora Cindy,

The first port of call the[my] eye consciousness takes in[from my kitchen window] is the lush green vegetation, then the bluey green welcoming sea, yachts anchored in the bay, the main land in the distance, tiny buildings scattered on the hillsides, cotton wool-like clouds making their way across the blue sky...The giant red car-eating sea creature making its way across the bay heading for the mainland to regurgitate the contents of its stomach to make room for more eagerly awaiting sacrifices...The sun is trying to dominate the blue sky, but the clouds [for now] are holding their own...

The ear consciousness takes in the silence, which is occasionally broken by the welcoming sounds of the morning gossip of birds, who seen to always have lots to say ...

The mind working its magic making the illusion seem real...

Metta Zenda      

  The ocean. 

I see the privacy fence that surrounds my yard. My room is on the side of the house so the fence is pretty close to my window.
Above the fence I see the roof of my neighbor's shed covered in dead leaves and just above that is the comically bright green side of his house.
If I stand at one edge of my window, smush my face sideways against the glass, and look off to the side then I can see part of my neighbor's backyard. It has a dingy grey satellite dish in it, and I see a faded pink metal edge to what I think is a swing set.
If I look to the other side, I see only the fence and the sky.
If I stare up far enough that it hurts my eyes, I can see a dead tree looming over the neighboring house.
If I lean forward and look down, I can just barely see the bottom edge of the fence and the rotting leaf mould piledabout the trenches my dogs have dug. Any plants that were there are dead now. There are some mushrooms next to the holes.

I see the deciduous forest in winter trim with a light dusting of snow, two white tail deer cautiously passing through in the distance, a dozen wild turkeys walking past the frozen pond pecking at the ground for specks of food, a group of large crows sitting in the leafless sugar maple trees surrounding the compost heap and the beautiful afternoon sunset making everything sparkle.   THIS is my happy place!

Jennifer

Wow lots of you living amongst nature.. thats great.. I see my creek running strong to the north and to the west my trout stream and to the east pear trees with pears still on them. They are heritage pears. Original pears before mankind hybridized them. They look like golden christmas balls hanging. To the west i have a gravel drive with more trees. I do live in a bird sanctuary as my local forestor says. I often have to chase woodpeckers off my house from pecking it for bugs. There is a slight dusting of snow. I am in a wooded area compared to all the amish farms next to me on either side. I have a 2000ft montain across the trout stream. I haven't seen any deer here lately or turkeys recently but i see the next morning how the pears are nibled.