Alas, central Michigan is sadly lacking in mountains, and I don't think I could handle a commute from a house that had them.

But you have anticipated one aspect of this that I hadn't mentioned: I'd actually prefer to have this running not as my desktop background, but on a very large flat-panel monitor embedded in the wall and surrounded by a window frame. (I've been trying to figure out if there would be a reasonable way to incorporate one or more full-spectrum lamps at various positions behind the window frame as well.)