More specifically concerning: view
studium
26 February 2002, around 11.10.
Wednesday, 24 July 2002
24 July 2002, around 13.40.
They live on the top floor of the house on the corner; there are windows on two sides of their apartment, and the roof slants steeply. They have no balcony. He has long, dark blond hair, which he usually wears in a ponytail. He is in his early thirties and works in a shop, selling […]
A view (1)
18 October 2002, around 16.51.
sunset, haze, Greyfriars.
A view (2)
27 October 2002, around 17.07.
toss & turn.
A view (3)
4 November 2002, around 16.14.
sunset, Greyfriars.
A view (4)
26 November 2002, around 16.40.
clouds (not quite at sunset).
A view (5)
10 February 2003, around 9.23.
gutter, pigeon.
A view (6)
17 February 2003, around 9.30.
morning.
Sunday
9 March 2003, around 8.58.
A view (7)
10 March 2003, around 8.59.
a Sunday afternoon in March.
A view (8)
24 June 2003, around 14.01.
observed.
A view (9)
25 July 2003, around 8.07.
night, Grayfriars.
A view (10)
19 October 2003, around 11.54.
guttering pigeon.
A view (11)
10 November 2003, around 16.05.
blue and orange.
A view (13)
30 December 2003, around 16.44.
kitchen window, snow.
clouds
24 April 2004, around 22.09.
A view (14)
6 May 2004, around 19.33.
present absent.
west
19 May 2004, around 23.54.
A view (15)
18 October 2004, around 17.55.
point of view.
A view (16)
1 March 2005, around 16.50.
Some people don’t need to worry about catching cold.
A view (17)
10 March 2006, around 21.05.
with polish
A view (18)
8 June 2006, around 10.27.
watching the rain.
aridity
6 October 2007, around 21.40.
Under the window-seat in the back parlor, where wasps die and desiccate, the memories are kept, unlocked, unbidden, and inaccessible – mint-green florilegium, pallor bred under the western sun. The thought makes me sleepy.
A view (19)
4 November 2007, around 18.07.
olfactory, rather than visual.
A view (21)
12 April 2008, around 10.44.
On the evening of my last day of work before leaving for the Peace Corps.
A view (22)
26 April 2008, around 6.00.
This I will miss.
A view (24)
25 August 2008, around 0.01.
From the balcony.
A view (25)
14 April 2009, around 0.35.
flight
1 May 2009, around 0.17.
When the sun is shining in the morning it is warm enough to drink coffee on the balcony with a book, perhaps something on regional politics, and listen to the swifts cross the sky. I had thought at first they were starlings, because the starlings paused on the wire linking the apartment building to the […]
A view (27)
24 November 2009, around 9.40.
in the afternoon
27 November 2010, around 12.21.
Afternoon tea out at the country, in November.
A view (31)
6 September 2011, around 17.02.
The sky is huge.
A view (33)
21 November 2011, around 7.07.
frost
9 December 2011, around 6.56.
The changing patterns of frost on the window are always interesting to me.
A view (35)
4 January 2013, around 14.01.
Frostbound at home.
A view (37)
26 May 2013, around 5.59.
the open road
A view (38)
24 July 2013, around 5.38.
sunset, Portland.
A view (39)
30 December 2013, around 17.46.
sunrise, Portland
A view (42)
27 June 2014, around 18.35.
A view (45)
8 December 2015, around 16.44.
evening, Portland.
distant views
15 October 2021, around 10.53.
Amazing what one finds in old folders. So many possibilities. (ca. 2002)
A view (59)
27 September 2023, around 9.28.
Goris, Armenia, 27 September 2008 Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. —Jules Renard (Journals, trans. Louise Bogan & Elizabeth Roget, January 1905)
night thoughts
23 October 2023, around 19.21.
Sometimes a contemplative prologue will depict the protagonist looking out the window and thinking of all the philosophical conundrums the author will not have time to present in the ensuing narrative. Sometimes the prologue simply presents those philosophical conundrums in a voice that issues from nowhere. Sometimes the prologue dispenses with philosophy completely and presents […]