A room with a view

David Honigmann's "Brain Waves" column in yesterday's Financial Times contained a paragraph worth thinking about:

In his book A Pattern Language," Christopher Alexander tells of the house of a Buddhist monk that overlooked the ocean. But this view could be seen only fleetingly through a diagonal slit in the wall, as a visitor walked through the courtyard. "If there is a beautiful view," counsels Alexander to anyone designing a house, "don't spoil it by building huge windows that gape incessantly at it. Instead, put the windows which look on to the view at places of transition."

Look at, then, and enjoy while it lasts the view (above) from my bedroom window, upon which vista I rest my eyes a majority of my waking hours.

I am going to Lowe's for bricks and mortar to permanently obliterate it just as soon as I finish this post.