Places

An old friend of mine in SL is a full time furry.  I think I met him in my first week and have kept in contact on and off over the years.  He’s one of those people in SL that has been content to be a vagabond all his second life, and never had a place to really call home… until he discovered Lemon Drop Valley.

He told me that he took one look at this place and knew he had to grab a little slice of it, and I have to agree with him, it’s one of the prettiest sims in SL 🙂

The place is owned and run by furries, and they’re the predominant people there, although I see no restrictions on who can rent.  There are a number of established group owned houses for rent, but I understand that you can negotiate with the owners to come to a mutually satisfactory deal (the rent is based on L$1 a prim per week).

The sim is rated Adult, and gorgeously decorated, although it would be nice if there were a few more public cuddle spots that overlooked the scenery.

My photos don’t really do it justice, you should go and have a look for yourself!

Destination: Lemon Drop Valley

Recently, I was researching RLV traps for ideas for some Hallowe’en trickery.  While doing so, I came across a place called the “Art Gallery of Accidental Entanglement“.  The traps here use RLV to transform you into works of art, which is really strange and fascinating at the same time.  There are gardens (stick to the paths if you’re wearing an RLV relay!) and a building with a lot of incredibly well done statues who are really avatars that have asked the staff to pose them for a specific amount of time.

It’s worth a visit.

How this works of course is a script delivers you skin and hair and eyes and so on, and uses RLV to strip you down and then apply the items it gave you.  Having been accidentally trapped by a stand in the garden and been given the objects, I decided to try and make a stand of my own.  I already had the perfect pose for it as our friend Kat asked me for help making a pose so she could try and recreate Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ famous painting “The Spring“.  So here it is, although I’m not as curvy as the nymph in the painting lol

There are some sim builders who just get it right.  I’m always impressed by realism in SL, and Baileys Norge has it in spades.

I only had a short time to take these photos, so I cammed rather than walked to the locations.  I will certainly be going back for a closer look in the coming days.

The attention to detail is really noticeable, including touches like mist over the water.  On our land I wanted a light beam through the trees (aka a “God ray”).  But I didn’t want it static, I wanted it to track the sun (I eventually wrote the script for this after a lot of experimentation, as I was just learning the capabilities of LSL at the time).  Features like the mist on the water make me think things like “How can I script it so the mist appears to burn off when the sun rises?” 😉

Location: Baileys Norge

Aeon and I get a lot of pleasure out of redecorating our land every major change of seasons.  As it’s now Spring in SL, we were looking around for something to fit for Spring and Summer this year, and we came across this green house, which we both really loved.

We put it out and started filling it with plants and some furniture and nicknacks, when I realized that somehow we were running out of prims.

We have two adjoining parcels, and somehow I’d forgotten which parcel our main skybox was on 🙂  So I had to pick up the new green house and all its contents, and switch it with the woods that cover our other parcel, so we could even out the prim allocation!  What a pain hehe.

Here’s a view from the deck outside so you can see the woods.

I’m not going to list every object in these pictures, but I will highlight a few.  Firstly, the flag is a proposed design for a Flag of Planet Earth.  Both of us think this is a very cool idea!

Next, let’s look at some close-ups.  The hanging lamps in the foreground are by C-Outlet.

We both dragged out our collection of potted plants, and even with both of our collections, realized we probably didn’t have enough to convincingly fill the space.  So we went and started looking and ended up with a really nice collection from Compulsion.

At the moment, we have a large fountain in the middle of the space, but while Aeon loves her water features, I’d rather there was something like a lounge and coffee table taking up that space, and then we could do away with the beanbags in the photo above.  Perhaps we can get it sorted out soon!  Either a smaller fountain and more plants, or some seating.

Don’t forget, click on the pictures for the full sized view, and as usual, all our land with the exception of our house is publicly accessible (we hate ban lines).  You’re more than welcome to come and explore or hang out and relax.  SLurl below 🙂

Selected items in photos:

• Building: Green House by Greymoon Designs
• Roses in top pic: Climbing Roses Red – Right by Mesh Plants
• Lamps: Jango Lamp by C-Outlet (marketplace link)
• Potted plants: Complete Plant Set 2 by Compulsion
• Location: Aeon and Blues’ Retreat West