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Years ago, a friend told me a story from her childhood that I'd not heard before, and I think of it often. The story goes like this:
One morning, a little girl was looking across the valley from her house, admiring the beautiful golden windows on a house on the top of the hill.
"Mom," she said, "Do you see that house on the hill with golden windows? It must be so beautiful there, and the people who live there must be so wealthy! I'll bet they have no problems and their lives are filled with happiness every day. I wish OUR HOUSE had golden windows."
"Oh, darling," replied the mother, "no one's life is perfect. Even people who live in a house with golden windows."
"No, I think you are wrong! I want to go see for myself!" So the mother packed the daughter a lunch, and away the daughter went to cross the valley and see how wonderful life was for the people who lived in the house with golden windows.
The girl walked all day long. As she reached the bottom of the valley, she lost sight of the house but kept going. It was dusk by the time she reached the top of the other hill. But to her surprise, all she found was an ordinary house. She saw no golden ornaments, nothing that made the house look different or more special than any other house. The people looked ordinary, just like the people in her own family. She was puzzled.
Disappointed, she turned around to gaze at her own house across the valley she'd just crossed. And to her surprise, her house was ablaze with light. The windows shone with gold as the setting sun lit them up. In disbelief, she looked again at the ordinary house in front of her, then back to her house gleaming across the way.
"MY house has golden windows!" she said in amazement. She stood for a moment, struck by how beautiful her house looked from this side of the valley. She took off running back down the hill, eager to return to her family.
A shot I took while walking to work one morning of a shop worker preparing the window display
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The Doors made the "Morrison Hotel" album. Well, I got the Windows XP Hotel. It doesn't have the same kind of klang, though.
Reminds me of flying Windows XP logo screen saver, don't you think?
Those of you living in Helsinki: Can you guess what hotel? :)
If you think of New York, most of you think of Manhattan with its skyscrapers and thousands ands thousands of windows...
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Rings and Moons: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI/Kevin M. Gill
05/29/2015 A couple dozing off while sitting at the window seats of a D-train entering Brooklyn. Kodak Ektar 100. Olympus 35 SP. G.Zuiko 42mm 1:1.7.
Ventanas gemelas en la antigua fábrica de cervezas Cruzcampo. Sevilla. Andalucia. España.
Twin windows in the former factory of beers Cruzcampo. Seville. Andalusia. Spain.
"The Attic Window" sound poetic, but it's probbaly just a bedroom.
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The glass in the windows of the old café on Llandudno pier was that bubbly old rippled sort. The morning winter sun doesn't shine on the beautiful façade of the seafront hotels, but I loved the pastel shades I saw through the two panes of looking glass.