Taking in the View Friday Five

Sally at RevGals asks these Friday Five questions:

1. How important is the "big picture" to you, do you need a glimpse of the possibilities or are you a details person?

I am almost all big picture. I can sometimes muster up an hour or two of detail work if needed, but that is all.

2. If the big picture is important to you how do you hold onto it in the nitty gritty details of life?

By avoiding the details, of course! Getting someone else to tend to them helps. But often I wait too long to ask for help from the right person, and end up having to do it myself anyway. I am also a list-maker, but seldom look at the list again after I make it, which exposes some drawbacks in my (visionary, big-picture, but short-on-details) system....

3. Name a book, poem, psalm, piece of music that transports to to another dimension ( one....what am I thinking....)

Oh, this this this!: Elgar's Enigma Variations - Nimrod:

4.Thinking of physical views, is there somewhere that inspires you, somewhere that you breathe more easily?

Anywhere around water. I grew up on a big river, and have to have my fix regularly. It can be ocean, lake, stream, whatever. Just blue and wet and wonderful. I also have a very physical response to a certain stretch of road leading to the mountains, where they first come into view and I do breathe deeply, without even trying.

5. A picture opportunity... post one if you can ( or a link to one!)
I scanned through a bunch of possibilities here, and finally settled on the one posted above, that is not too far from home - the Blue Ridge Mountains.