# What can you see out the window right now? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 1999, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970 "1999-12-10T01:59:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/21 "1999-12-10T08:21:00Z")
Since my office is on the “garden” level of our house, I have a very uninteresting view. From one window, I’m eye-level with my driveway. From the other, I can see the garage and a small portion of the backyard. MPSIMS answer for a MPSIMS topic. 🙂 * * * “…all the prettiest girls live in Des Moines…” –Jack Kerouac, _On the Road_ ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/22 "1999-12-10T08:28:00Z")
Dark and our outdoor thermometer. In the day I can see our very tiny yard, sandbox, and assorted dog turds. * * * – Teeming Millions: [http://fathom.org/teemingmillions](http://fathom.org/teemingmillions) “Meat flaps, yellow!” - DrainBead, naked co-ed Twister chat O p a l C a t [www.opalcat.com](http://www.opalcat.com) ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/23 "1999-12-10T08:37:00Z")
I can’t see anything, because the lights are on in here, but I heard a gunshot about half an hour ago. * * * Remember, I’m pulling for you; we’re all in this together. —Red Green ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/24 "1999-12-10T08:53:00Z")
I was looking at the neighbor’s Christmas lights until my husband stood in the way. He makes a better door than he does a window, as the old joke goes. * * * “I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy [The Kat House](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/home.htm) [Join the FSH Webring](http://members.aol.com/gr8kat1/KatGen/fshwebring.htm) ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/25 "1999-12-10T09:38:00Z")
I keep my blinds drawn, so people don’t see my computers. (I was going to say passer-by, but what’s the plural of that?!). It’s silly really, because I live in a town of 8,000 folks and crime is really low here. I suppose I’m worried about vandals. Anyway I would see gardens and trees, because this is the English countryside. It’s very restful (and I walk to work!). Oh, and it’s 9.42 a.m. now. ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/26 "1999-12-10T09:39:00Z")
I see my mini blinds. Oh wait… _raises mini blinds_ I see a big bush blockign half the window with some of the Xmas lights from across the street shining through, and my dad’s old Camaro. ---
**Author:** ![funneefarmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@funneefarmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/funneefarmer)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/27 "1999-12-10T13:07:00Z")
The other side of the valley and everything in between. My parent’s place, all the neighbors. The dry cows and heifers. birds in one bird feeder and a squirrel raiding the other. Don’t see any deer this morning but it’s hunting season and they know it. The pole barn and my cousin’s dozer sitting next to it. No frost this morning, thank-you global warming… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/28 "1999-12-10T13:14:00Z")
I see my car parked outside, and the tops of some shrubs. * * * I crave an art that passionately transcends the mundane instead of being a device for self-deception.–Griffin, from The Griffin and Sabine trilogy. ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/29 "1999-12-10T13:31:00Z")
Welders working on the building next door, a giant construction crane a few blocks away, and the top of the Chrysler Building, silhouetted by the rising sun. Oh, damn, while I was trying to work out how to spell “silhouette,” a cloud came up. It’s not nearly as poetic now. * * * …but when you get blue, and you’ve lost all your dreams, there’s nothing like a campfire and a can of beans! ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/30 "1999-12-10T14:09:00Z")
(from work, shhhhh :)) The horizon, looking left to right:[ul] [li]office building next door[/li][li]bridge for the GW Parkway going onto island.[/li][li]a plane on approach to Reagan Nat’l Airport[/li][li]The White House[/li][li]The Washington Monument[/li][li]Catholic University, The Old Post Office, and Jefferson Memorial, almost inline[/li][li]various office buildings around L’Enfant Plaza[/li][li]US Capitol Building[/li][li]another plane (taking me a while to type this :))[/li][li]one of the Library of Congress buildings, I think[/li][li]another neighboring office building[/ul][/li] In the mid-ground:[ul] [li]the Potomac River[/li][li]the I-395, Metro, and Amtrack bridges into DC[/li][li]northern Haines Point w/ its Japanese Cherry Trees[/ul][/li] In the foreground:[ul] [li]a smaller office building[/li][li]Old Jefferson Davis Hwy, with a storage warehouse, gravel company, and a warehouse converted into a theatre[/li]a tidal marsh area north of DCA[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/31 "1999-12-10T14:30:00Z")
rain ---
**Author:** ![PurpleCrackwhore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc348/32.png) [@PurpleCrackwhore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PurpleCrackwhore)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/32 "1999-12-10T14:50:00Z")
A most perfect sunrise. The sky is afire with reds and oranges and golds as it changes from darkness to shed light on my day. The trees are very still as they are awakening and a small squirrel scurries around on the ground searching for stores to hide in it’s home. All is peaceful and quiet. I love morning! * * * “Only when he no longer knows what he is doing, does the painter do good things.” --Edgar Degas ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/33 "1999-12-10T15:08:00Z")
From my office window I see the rain pissing down from the Bellevue sky, the buildings alight with the offices, the headlights and taillights of bumper to bumper traffic on I-405. From my Apt I see the aged pine forest that surrounds me, the cascade mountains and the mist rising off of Lake Sammamish. * * * Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. ---
**Author:** ![MrSCOTT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MrSCOTT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSCOTT)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/34 "1999-12-10T15:10:00Z")
Since i’m not feeling too descriptive this morning… East View: [http://junior.apk.net/~scotdor/stuff/east.jpg](http://junior.apk.net/~scotdor/stuff/east.jpg) South View: [http://junior.apk.net/~scotdor/stuff/south.jpg](http://junior.apk.net/~scotdor/stuff/south.jpg) -MrSCOTT ---
**Author:** ![TheDoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@TheDoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheDoll)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/35 "1999-12-10T15:26:00Z")
A huge statue of Christopher Columbus pointing at me. * * * “Let me fall out of the window with confetti in my hair…” Tom Waits ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/36 "1999-12-10T16:08:00Z")
Rain. Three bare poplar trees, and a hemlock hugging the trunk of the skinniest poplar. A squirrel sitting on a tree branch flicking his tail to keep off the rain. The stretch of road leading up to my apartment complex. More rain. The lawn sloping down to a drainage ditch (for all this RAIN!) and back up again. More bare trees, draped with bare kudzu vines. A bit of limp orange ribbon tied to a bush. Did I mention rain? I have to stop now because I’m getting depressed. (It’s actually quite pretty in the sunshine. Really.) * * * \\| |/ === '\> ---
**Author:** ![Jebediah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac91a4/32.png) [@Jebediah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jebediah)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/37 "1999-12-10T16:09:00Z")
If I were at home, I would be able to see the Cathedral of St John the Devine in all it’s perpetually incomplete glory. But I am at work, so I am looking at the entrance of a New York City fire department office building. I think I like home better. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/38 "1999-12-10T16:49:00Z")
Foreground: a British coast artillery battery built in 1897; Middle distance: Fisgard Lighthouse, white tower with red lantern, built 1860 and still going strong (no keeper these days though); Distance: the (currently) rain-swept Strait of Juan de Fuca, with snow-capped Olympic Mountains in Washington State, USA. Oh, and yesterday morning, my view included a Los Angeles class sub (US, obviously) entering the Canadian Forces naval base at Esquimalt, with Santa Claus on the deck–no kidding! * * * **Launcher may train without warning.** ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/39 "1999-12-10T17:05:00Z")
Why do I feel like I’m on Romper Room? Looking out the back upper window, I see my four neighbors front yards and an unknown/unseen neighbor’s yellow lab ( the doppelganger of mine) crapping all over the four front yards before moseying back to it’s house. If I had a long range bb gun… ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 1999, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970/40 "1999-12-10T17:21:00Z")
Half of a building and bright blue sky, which is pretty amazing considering it was raining about 30 minutes ago. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-can-you-see-out-the-window-right-now/11970.md?page=3)