# What are you looking at? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402 "2012-04-30T09:56:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/1 "2012-04-30T09:56:04Z")
What’s out your window? We’re staying at the Millennium Hilton in NYC, 50th floor overlooking the WTC Plaza. Right now, One World Trade and surrounding buildings are reflecting a gold dawn. Everything else is steel grey punctuated with twinkling pinpoints of light. [Quick camera phone pic](http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/851/20120430054402.jpg/). ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/2 "2012-04-30T10:07:34Z")
An endless void of darkness. The sun hasn’t risen here, and there’s no streetlights outside my window, so I can’t see a darn thing out there. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/3 "2012-04-30T10:11:46Z")
I’m at work. I work for a large company and I’m in a building on one of their campuses. The buildings are arranged in a semi circle around a farm. So looking out my window, I can see sheep and lambs. At the moment, the lambs are all lying down with their mums. I can see about three fields, and they all have trees lining their boundaries. It really is a beautiful view and sometimes it’s nice to just zone out and stare out the window. It also means I can go for lovely walks at lunchtime, five minutes out of my building and it feels like I’m in the countryside. Bliss. In the interests of balance, I can also see other buildings and car parks. But I ignore those. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/4 "2012-04-30T10:20:04Z")
Maybe there’re sheep outside Mr. Accident’s window too. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/5 "2012-04-30T10:27:02Z")
Plain ol’ dark. There are several robins out there telling me the darkness is a temporary state, but at the moment there is not even a hint of daylight. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/6 "2012-04-30T10:47:26Z")
My neighbor’s roof, including the tree branch that’s been hanging down from the maple tree in his side yard and leaning on the edge of his house for two years. The gutter garden isn’t in bloom yet, but it’s nice and green after all the rain. If I stand up, I can see my fence, my yard, and the irises about to bloom, but I’m not planning on standing up until I get more coffee in me. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/7 "2012-04-30T11:43:04Z")
I see a cloudless blue sky, the blue spruce that I planted about 20 years ago that is now 40’ high (it was sold as a dwarf that was supposed to top out at 15’), three houses across the street and various other trees in the foreground and background. ---
**Author:** ![figure9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@figure9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/figure9)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/8 "2012-04-30T11:48:10Z")
I can see the parking lot, and beyond that a funeral home under construction. ---
**Author:** ![RalfCoder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@RalfCoder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RalfCoder)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/9 "2012-04-30T12:41:29Z")
There’s a white pine between the building and the sidewalk, a parking lot across the sidewalk that’s about half-filled with cars, and trees on the far edge of the lot. To the right is a 6 story office building that’s part of this complex, and right up close, a robin who’s beating his pea-sized brain to pulp as he tries to drive his reflection out of his territory. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/10 "2012-04-30T12:44:28Z")
Rainy foggy woods, with a Winter Wren singing its heart out. Makes for kind of an eerie morning. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/11 "2012-04-30T12:51:38Z")
Dawn is just beginning here. Out my bedroom there are a couple of Blue Jays squaking at each other, and past that, at the bottom of the hill, there is a ribbon of fog hanging over the river. Rain clouds are sitting on the hills, so I doubt the fog will last long. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/12 "2012-04-30T12:59:17Z")
2 acres of knee high weeds that need to be mowed. ugh ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/13 "2012-04-30T13:03:20Z")
I’m sitting at a desk at my workplace, staring out the office window, down a lemon yellow corridor. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/14 "2012-04-30T13:09:37Z")
Mostly, I’m looking at my computer and the work that needs to be done. But out my office “window” is [this](http://flickr.com/gp/ellbeecee/YZi3R8). ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/15 "2012-04-30T13:12:02Z")
Rain falling on a dense forest preserve. It’s nice here in the woods, just watch out for deer. They’re pretty sure they’re playing The Hunger Games. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/16 "2012-04-30T13:45:56Z")
If I look out the window by my desk, I see a dumpster and part of the building. If I look out the other windows in the shop I can see the lake. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/17 "2012-04-30T13:54:16Z")
The razor wire surrounding the NRO is twinkling in the sunlight. . . They are right at the end of my street. Between here and there are just streets and trees and parkign lots. I can also see planes going by on their way to Dulles. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/18 "2012-04-30T13:57:00Z")
[This](http://pidgees.multiply.com/photos/album/3/Chinese-Thai_Temple#photo=1). ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/19 "2012-04-30T14:02:30Z")
[From the window next to me.](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-myQmdSR4q0g/TCuiTCAtxNI/AAAAAAAAC-s/Na9cPrZYhLM/s720/IMG_0588.JPG) Actually, that was last year’s garden, this year’s mostly isn’t planted yet because it won’t stop freezing here. ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402/20 "2012-04-30T15:11:45Z")
I can see the N. Michigan Avenue skyline from the west, with the John Hancock tower rising above it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-you-looking-at/620402.md?page=2)