There are days that
even with sitting and looking out a window most of the day because of
how my desk is situated I really don’t see much. The window to me
is just a better feeling from sitting and looking at a wall so that
is why I have my desk facing out the window.
Of course, there are
days that I look out the window and I really enjoy what I see. There
are a lot of different things that I can sit as we live on the 10th
floor of a building. This view means that there is a lot of things
that I can see that people that live in a house wouldn’t see
normally.
One of the things
that I can see if one of the hospitals where Ornge
lands. Ornge is the medical helicopters that fly in Ontario and take
patients between hospitals and do the quick run to the different
trauma hospitals. There are days when I can sit here at my desk and
I won’t see a helicopter at all and then there are days when there
seems to be one taking off or landing quite often. The hospital that
I can see is a straight line from my window so I do see that quite
often.
Other things that I
can see while sitting here at my desk are things that people will see
if they live close to something. There is a rail line that I see
also from the window and it is amazing how many times I look up and
there is a train using that line. It is one of the main feeder lines
in Toronto so that means that it does have a lot of train traffic on
it. Sometimes you can see a lot of the train cars and other times
you can only see quick glimpses of the train. Also the time of the
year also makes a big different as to the view of the train track
that I get. The window months means that the track is a lot easier
for me to see so of course I notice more of the train traffic.
The different roads
around us are also part of my view from the window. I can’t see an
entire street but I get parts of the different streets so I get to
see parts of the traffic flow around me. It can be interesting to
watch one section of a street just to see how busy it can get at
different times of the day. One street is extremely busy at rush hour
in the afternoon and other times times of the day I really don’t
see a lot of traffic on it. Again this is something that is a lot
easier to see in the window without the leaves on the tresses that
block parts of the street from view.
The school and park
that are also close by do get a bit of my attention sometimes when I
am sitting at my desk. I don’t get to see a lot of activity in the
park because I only see a small area and of course that isn’t where
the swings are located. Even with the school I can see one of the
entrances into the play ground so that means I normally only see the
traffic around that gate with school is letting out or students are
arriving.
These are some of
the things that I see from the window where my desk is. Sure there is
lot of things that in the distance that get a bit of my attention
sometimes and sometimes even the close things that I see every day
get ignored while I sit and work. The view out our window is
something that I do enjoy because it gives me that little view out
into the world on a daily basis while I sit and work. A window can
sometimes mean it’s a distraction but most often it is just things
in the distance but something that can help me regain a focus when I
need to look away from the computer for even a minute or two.
