What's the most beautiful thing you have ever seen?

[11 Bravo]

I have actually put quite a bit of thought into this.
The birth of my sons? The smile on Yo Yo Ma's face as he played at President Obama's inauguration? A med-evac chopper setting down less than 50 meters away from me when I was pretty sure I was bleeding out? Michelangelo's David? The sun sinking into the Gulf of Mexico as seen from Boca Grande?
Nah ... for me nothing will ever top the look on my soon-to-be-wife's face as she walked down the aisle to take my hand.
How about you?

[cliffordu]

1. Julie.

[blondeatlast]

2. My 3 year old's face as he watched his first movie, "Toy Story 2"

at the age of 3.

Eyes as big as the moon; never took his eyes off of the screen. What a treasure and I ddon't even need pics to remember it.

[w8liftinglady]

3. each of my babies when they made their entrance...beautiful in their own,unique ways

[Stinky The Clown]

4. Sparkly

Even when she's pissed at me.

[peacebird]

5. my son - hands down. The first time I saw him I knew he would always have my heart.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. same here

[blondeatlast]

6. Thanks for treasuring your spouses. That's awesome--DU men rawk!

Y'all are making this newly divorced woman quite envious.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. ...nah. I'll get this thread locked.

[peacebird]

13. why would you say that?

[TBF]

9. My daughter -

but my husband crying at our wedding is a close second.

[Botany]

10. right now .... my 16 year old son sleeping with his black lab curled up w/ him

.... I cry just a little watching the 2.

[grantcart]

11. mrs. grantcart. and if you could see her you would say it was an understatement

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. My husband with our newborn son in his arms.

[rainlillie]

14. The faces of my son and daughter after they were born.

[Peregrine Took]

15. An enormous harvest moon over the water, Charleston, SC, jaw droppingly

huge and beautiful - and there we were without a camera!

[Webster Green]

16. My daughter at birth.

Old growth redwood groves at dawn are in second place.

[golddigger]

17. My wife.It was the 9th grade and my future wife

was waking towards me down the school hallway. The sun was was shining threw the open double doors at her back. She was wearing a blue dress with a chocker.Chocker's were the inn thing back then. Her Blond hair was radiating like a halo. My heart was stuck in my throat,she was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen at the time. The only thing that was going threw my mind was I'm going to marry this girl someday. Four years later we were married. We have two beautiful daughters, one is 35 the other is 27. This was in 1971. We've been married for 35years. We are both 53yrs old and still happy and in love as we were was in 1971.

Also she lived next door to me since the 4th grade. So I guess it was really love at first at 11 years old. Too me that day was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.

[Odin2005]

30. AWW! Storybook love story!

:D

[AsahinaKimi]

18. A full huge Moon rise from the Ocean...

I don't think I will ever see anything like that again... ever.

[Arctic Dave]

19. My wife, daughter and my family.

The final approach into Anchorage International after my hitch out in the field is over.

[stevedeshazer]

20. My mom's smiling face.

The birth of my kids.

My dog and his unconditional love. Same for my wife.

A total solar eclipse.

Alas, Mom has passed, my kids are grown up, my dog died.

[jillan]

21. When my daughter took her first steps. She was 3. She has disabilities & we were told she would

never walk. Not only did she prove the experts wrong, she did it at her pre-school during the Thanksgiving party when all the parents were there.

She just got up, walked out the door and down the hall. One of the highlights of my life.

Thank you for making me think about that day again :)

[dkf]

22. My baby nephew.

So adorable.

[Sheepshank]

23. I thought I'd lost my little girl.

I was told her problems were not compatible with life.

When we found out the dr's were so very very wrong, I can never look at her (11 years later), without reliving a heart stopping moment...for only a moment. But then, to gaze on her when the diagnosis was reversed, seeing the sun light shoot out of every strand of hair on her head, to see the moonlight glow in her eyes, to hear the musical chorus of angels in her laughter. Gawd she's still gorgeous.

[Lindsey]

25. Looking at my newborn son in 1975. And as far as nature goes,

the unbelievable beauty of the CA coastline (Pacific Coast Hwy.) from L.A. to San Francisco...completely breathtaking.

[Codeine]

24. My girlfriend on a rocky beach in Ventura, looking into the sunset.

:)

[GSLevel9]

26. oh man... you're killing me.

ok...


most BEAUTIFUL? Not most impactful or most meaningful?

Beautiful?

I love travel so I'm going to say it's something from my travels.

When I was a child I vaguely remember reading a book about a castle on an island that was exposed by land at high tide.

I had a picture in my head of what it looked like and growing up in the 70's and 80's you couldn't simply google "castle, island, tide" and get a hit... so I had forgotten about it for 20 years until I looked it up a few years back and figured out it was probably Mt. San Michel...

I dreamt of this place as a child, drew it as a child... but had never seen a picture or read about Mt. San Michel.

So I always felt I had a special connection to there. If you have any spiritual belief... there may have been some spiritual connection.

So in 2009 I flew to Paris and did Paris, I went to the Normandy beaches for 2 days and drove through Beauvoir near dusk and saw a dusk-lit Mt. San Michel on a nice summer night... that's one of the best things I can think of.

Pic: (not one of mine)

[blue sky at night]

27. nice!

i would say all of the above, you are truly blessed!

[Odin2005]

28. The clear night sky when at the lake, far from city lights.

:wow:

[cynatnite]

29. Watching my new husband bond with my daughter at the beach...

We hadn't been married long and I was pregnant with my second child. My husband and daughter were playing in the ocean together. They were bonding and it was beautiful to see.

She hadn't had a father in her life and it was just a few years later that my husband legally adopted her. No one can never say that's not his daughter.

But, yeah, that is one of the most beautiful things I ever saw.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

31. My discharge from the Marine Crotch.

After 4 years of doing absolutely nothing beneficial to anyone I was finally free.

[aikoaiko]

32. Its pretty close between my son, my wife and the aura borealis while wold...

wolves howled during a Canadian night deep in the heart of the wilderness.

[Froward69]

33. My first girl friend... Naked.

yeah it may sound shallow. but it Does rank up there with Sunsets, Sunrises, harvest Moons, the colors of Fall Aspens and Fresh fluffy untouched snow.

[Vickers]

34. Either a mirror or my DD-214. n/t

[cbdo2007]

35. My wife and 4 month old daughter together right now, but...

there are different categories, like nature I would have to say from near the top of Mt. Rainier in Washington State.

Art I would definitely choose Michelangelo's Pieta at the Vatican.

Food I would say a perfectly cooked steak.

Public experience I would choose seeing Obama in Kansas City with 75,000 other people.

[Hannah Bell]

36. This thread seems compatible with the view that love is the most important thing in human life.

If only we could live that idea completely.

[EFerrari]

37. Easy. My (then) three boys, dirty and rumpled and laughing

around a picnic table lit by a Coleman Lamp, playing UNO at a Lower River campground.