On Saturday, Lisa posted photos of the view out the window from her kitchen sink and I was entranced by her lovely gardens, her flowers, and the connections she made. Of course she was responding to yet other posts extoling the virtues of views from kitchen windows, but I have not yet visited those posts.
I've shown you the view from my kitchen window before, but here is this year's version. It is a little bit overgrown. I've been rather lax about weeding as my mind has already moved forward onto the preparing for what comes next; weeding isn't really on my horizon at the moment. Of course I am cognizant that once I am ready to put this house on the market a massive prepping of the garden will be required. Besides, I like to tell myself that the weeds meet a need, providing shade and shelter to more delicate plants in this summer of unwelcome heat.
Standing at my sink this morning I realized that I will only be gazing on this view a few more months and I shall miss it. I shall miss seeing the deer on the lawn in the evening despite the fact that there have many times when I have run out the front door shooing them away from from some flower or another. I shall miss the early morning parade of the turkeys with their brood of little chicks. The guard turkey always sits up high in the pine at the upper left corner of the photo, and if I wander out the door without having checked on their presence first, he lets out a frantic call and the turkeys scatter quickly, often before I even get the door completely closed behind me. I will miss watching the rabbits and the woodchucks and the cavorting of the chipmunks on the stone walls.
All of this thinking about kitchen windows reminds me that there will be no kitchen window in my new house. If there were I would only get a view of the neighbor's kitchen window a few feet away, and the thought of looking out the window into the eyes of another person standing at their own kitchen sink already makes me shiver just a bit. Perhaps no window is better. I don't quite know how I will adapt to that yet. I do know that when I am standing at that sink my back will be turned to the long open space consisting of the dining room, the sun room and the screened porch. Perhaps I will put a mirror up on the wall above the sink so that I can be simultaneously looking forward and backward. Or is it backward and forward?
