One thing I like about where I live is that wherever there's a bit of open space or a long road heading east, you can see the Sierra Nevada mountains in the distance. Here they are from just east of Sunrise Boulevard. (Sunrise Boulevard, in my neighborhood, pretty much marks the border between populated and unpopulated areas. Nobody lives east of Sunrise. Come to think of it, that's probably why it's named Sunrise - it's located in the same direction from everybody as the sunrise is.)