View from my window

[Rob MacKillop]

Phone shot. Room 7, Ward 231.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Feel free to dive in with views from your window.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

A fine shot, Rob. Clear directions in heaven and earth.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Glad you like it, sir!

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Glad you like it, sir!

I hear that before long you will no longer be looking out of that window, but out of other windows.
It seems to me that this photo marks a clear separation between a high and a low, a here and a there and perhaps between a before and an after.

"A rift doth part heaven and earth, where sharp and slanting lines do carve the sky, and a straight-bound edge doth cleave the shadowed ground below; these paths, as if traced by unseen hands, converge and draw together, whilst silent towers rise betwixt them, still yet striving upward, like sentinels where worlds do meet."

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Wow. That quotation fits the image almost perfectly. What’s it from?

Yes, I’ll be home on the 12th November! Twenty days, and counting.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

I think you made it up…

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I think you made it up…

When someone calls me ‘sir’, I feel compelled to speak like the Bard (with the help of a dash of artificial intelligence). But it wasn't a joke, it's exactly what I meant to say about you and your photo.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Well, it wasn’t half bard

 

[Beth Anthony]

not the most exciting view of a window, but you made the most of what you had to work with.

i'm at work. we have no windows. just tv screens showing the outside world. sorry, no pics allowed in the ops room.

 

[Tony Warren]

Pleased to hear you are being let off (good behaviour?). A novelty for me to see some contrails. All I see down here at the bottom of the world is the occasional one as they go down to the Antarctic.

 

[Jez Doh]

This reminds me of early morning, watching the world wake up through those windows. There's something strangely calming about it.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

That’s what I’m doing now, Jez. At 7.30am, the light is just a calm glow. A nice way to emerge into the day.

 

[Brian Moore]

Is this a different image from the one you posted on Facebook,...Saturn seems to disappeared. Still a fine shot, though!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Yes, a morning shot compared to the evening one, which I haven’t got around to sharing here yet. Will do, though.