Looking through the window has always been popular. Remember the arched, square and round windows on the children’s tv programme Play school? The anticipation of which one we would go through today. Windows and doorways have always fired the imagination of artists and indeed everyone.
Gardens are popularly divided into rooms which gives anticipation of what the next one will be. What’s behind the door?
A favourite pastime on a train journey is seeing into the back gardens and glimpsing a fleeting picture of the lives lived through a lighted window. Also, a current game is counting the number of trampolines!
Our windows are used in this unusual time to communicate - the rainbow for supporting the NHS and now downloading a poppy to display in remembrance. It’s also a vital way we can connect with the natural world.
My window has provided me with the sight of a manic squirrel who arrives every day and zooms around the garden, digs holes in the grass (it doesn’t qualify as a lawn) runs up and down the trees and then departs. Also, a beautiful cock pheasant who arrives after the grass is cut as if to check the workmanship.
It’s good to look out and dream.
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