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I seem to remember we had a brilliant fred a few eons ago on what we could see from our window in the place where we generally log into AWAD. I found reading that thread very warm and illuminating, as it gave me an insight into other AWADers' surroundings. It was good fun. Would you all care to revive that thread and share your view? Word-related task: underline all items pertaining to the extended metaphor in my post. 
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AS from today, my view from the window is different: It used to be a busy street with streetcar rails and the long wall of a 1950ies' factory building. That was when I opened AWAD in my office on the 4th floor. Now I am retired, and installed internet access from my appartment, where I look down on the lawn in front of a school gym hall. Usually the place is animated by children, but today only the crows walk about in the fast-melting snow. The rain on the roof makes a noise not unlike the hard disk of my computer when it is busy loading a file.
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Congratulations on your new-found freedom, Werner! The window in my study at home is tiny (about 600x400 - that's about 24"x18" for you ole time Americans!) Until earlier this year it looked out onto a stone wall arcing away from the house corner where the study is sited, largely overgrown on its 1m height with scraggy trees and bushes. We cleared some of these to get more light, and replaced them with low shrubs - not sure yet if they were well enough established to survive the current cold weather. In the border between the house and this wall is a patch where daffodils, primroses and a few snowdrops will sprout in the next few months.
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What would otherwise be a bedroom, were there more of us in this townhouse, is an office which I share with my sweet bride. The window faces west so I can see, through a mix of maple trees and evergreen trees (mostly Douglas Fir) the grey waters of Puget Sound (it is overcast today) and, on the other side, the snow-covered Olympic Mountains. I have lived in a lot of places around the world at one time or other and have always returned to the Pacific Northwest happy to be where one can see sights like this.
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I sit within what we knowingly refer to as our office -- it's really just a glorified computer room, formerly a small third bedroom on the upper floor. The work surface is generously spacious, with much space freed up by a fine, new flatscreen monitor; although spacious, this surface is, as is its wont, cluttered with books, spiral notebooks, and post-it notes (stuck to nothing). To my right is a wall unit filled to capacity with (mostly) books. The space nearest at hand, and at eye level, has the references most used in offline wwftd research. Just below that is a rack of software CDs. Also here is a desk calendar, on which The Naked Organist© proclaims the last day of the year 2005, and a New Moon rising.
When I glance up over the printer, I can see out through a door that is halfway ajar into our upstairs sunroom -- windows all around, which gives me a westerly view of our snow-trimmed maple and, through its otherwise bare branches, the back of the large old house that obstructs any sight of Lake Harriet, just beyond the Rose Garden.
Just over my left shoulder is the only window in the office, which looks out on nothing but the house next door; but which lets in some needed light on these short winter days. Behind me is a fold-away antique desk and, in the corner, my closet. The monsters are strangely subdued today.
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Here's the view out our picture window. Shot with a zoom lens at about 130mm±3dB. No cropping.
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Next time shoot it with a 30-06. Yummy.
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It was the day before hunting season and it was within 500 feet of a dwelling.
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My home computer is in the back upstairs room in our house. The window is over my right shoulder, and if I turn to look, I will see a stand of spruce and balsam, mere treelets when we moved here in 1992, and now over ten feet tall, every one. Behind them, a large balm of gilead poplar, now bare of leaves. Some tops of birch and maple, and then sky, which today is grey and cloud-covered.
David's computer is in the basement room of his parents' house, with no window whatsoever.
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