Bird's Eye View of Your Garden

CapeCoddess wrote:

Scorpio Rising wrote:How are you guys doing this?  I cannot get a picture of my house aerially.

Me either. Everytime I try to zoom in close enough to see my SFG it turns sideways and I get a shot of the front of the yard and house, showing my mother and her friends sitting on the front porch.

CapeCoddess wrote:

Scorpio Rising wrote:How are you guys doing this?  I cannot get a picture of my house aerially.

Me either. Everytime I try to zoom in close enough to see my SFG it turns sideways and I get a shot of the front of the yard and house, showing my mother and her friends sitting on the front porch.

I wonder who will be the first to have a drone camera showing pictures of their garden.
Should be quite interesting, I would love it.

GWN wrote:I thought I would try posting this here, now that I have just learned how to.  As you can see my situation is very different from most people here. I have 1.8 acres. , about 1 acre is in trees though. So from the front of this picture down the left along fence are raspberries/blackberries and then a little in from them the big bushy grapes, then going back are the SFGs and I have about 1100 sq ft of them. Down the right side are raspberries, and behind house is my BTE garden.  Many of the SFG do not show as they are obscured by fruit trees that I have about 10 of.  Sorry for duplicate posting.

Ooo, this is what our place wants to be when it grows up.  We have 2.5 acres. About half of it is horse and goat areas. We have been here 4 years, but the first 3 were in drought, so we couldn't do much. Now we're expanding, but don't want to start in any new areas because we're "water shy" of future shortages, so we're adding more gardens where we already have irrigation. Love your setup. 

ralitaco wrote:very nice. How far back do you go?

yolos wrote:Not a very good shot but it is all I can seem to get.  This picture is a few years old so about the only value in posting it here is to show all the trees surrounding my garden.  The garden is in the lower middle portion of the picture surrounded on three sides by trees.  Thanks ralitaco I finally figured out how to save it to word and then save it as a jpg file.

jimmy cee wrote:I wonder who will be the first to have a drone camera showing pictures of their garden.
Should be quite interesting, I would love it.

sanderson wrote:Yolos,  Beautiful spread.  I think your house is as big as my whole lot!

That is possible.  It was built as a Four Generation house.  My mother died and my dad was becoming forgetful and lived down in the Florida Keys.  My daughter was married about a year before we built this house and lived around the corner from me in my old house.  We were all paying separately for water, electric, cable, garbage, pool upkeep, etc so all three of us sold our houses and had this house built.  The house is built in an L shape with a garage in the corner of the L.  There is a 1200 square foot apartment over the garage and partially over my side of the house that was built for my father.  Kitchen, bedroom and large family room with his own entrance and a small porch extending out.  I have a 1200 square foot apartment on the smaller leg of the L.  Bedroom, Office, Kitchen and large family room with my own entrance.  It has a very large screened porch attached.  Then my daughter and her husband have the larger portion of the L.  The house is on a slight slope so we had them put in a basement for any grandchildren that might come along.  When my grandson was born, we finished the basement.  My daughters side of the house also has a long, big porch.  So a lot of what you see in the roof line is porches.

countrynaturals wrote:

jimmy cee wrote:I wonder who will be the first to have a drone camera showing pictures of their garden.
Should be quite interesting, I would love it.

I'm gonna ask around and see if I know anybody who has one. That would really be fun.

I had a nightmare that there was a drone over my backyard!

yolos wrote:

sanderson wrote:Yolos,  Beautiful spread.  I think your house is as big as my whole lot!

That is possible.  It was built as a Four Generation house.  My mother died and my dad was becoming forgetful and lived down in the Florida Keys.  My daughter was married about a year before we built this house and lived around the corner from me in my old house.  We were all paying separately for water, electric, cable, garbage, pool upkeep, etc so all three of us sold our houses and had this house built.  The house is built in an L shape with a garage in the corner of the L.  There is a 1200 square foot apartment over the garage and partially over my side of the house that was built for my father.  Kitchen, bedroom and large family room with his own entrance and a small porch extending out.  I have a 1200 square foot apartment on the smaller leg of the L.  Bedroom, Office, Kitchen and large family room with my own entrance.  It has a very large screened porch attached.  Then my daughter and her husband have the larger portion of the L.  The house is on a slight slope so we had them put in a basement for any grandchildren that might come along.  When my grandson was born, we finished the basement.  My daughters side of the house also has a long, big porch.  So a lot of what you see in the roof line is porches.

We never made it to Four Generations living in the house.  My father died a year before my grandson was born.  So now we use his portion of the house as a guest apartment.  We can have guests who are out of our hair a lot of the time and can make their own breakfast or lunch when it suits them.  It also stays clean with no one messing it up between visits so we do not panic whenever someone says they want to come visit.

ralitaco wrote:

CapeCoddess wrote:Everytime I try to zoom in close enough to see my SFG it turns sideways and I get a shot of the front of the yard and house, showing my mother and her friends sitting on the front porch.

When you zoom in too much, google switches to street view. Just zoom out 1 click and grab the screenshot. Then crop the photo so it is just your lot.

jimmy cee wrote:

My son is adding an addition for me onto his house now. As soon as I move in it will become a 3 generation home.
Hopefully  I'll be around to see a fourth generation.

sanderson wrote:Bump

New members may enjoy this.

countrynaturals wrote:I got a drone/camera for Christmas, so expect me to blow up this thread when I figure out how to use it.

sanderson wrote:Any one want to add an aerial photo of their lot or update an older one with their new Christmas drone?  I checked Google and their isn't a new view of my lot to update.

sanderson wrote:Any one want to add an aerial photo of their lot or update an older one with their new Christmas drone?  I checked Google and their isn't a new view of my lot to update.