Tag: Window

Image of the day – 77

This looks like a window that would invite you in if you were a friend, but sternly resist if you were trying to break in or up to no good!

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every two days (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

(I plan to return to some more images from our Irish holiday for a while, before getting back to more Cirencester images in the near future.)

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I felt I really had to share this delightful little farmhouse window with you. Donna had booked an AirBNB near Castlewellan and it was right next to the farmhouse across a little, cobbled yard.

I love the heavy, stone construction and the little wooden frame – so rustic, so pretty, and a young conifer is trying to get in on the act in the lower left corner. This looks like a window that would invite you in if you were a friend, but sternly resist if you were trying to break in or up to no good! I’ve never before thought of windows as having personalities – but this one certainly does!


Images from our Irish holiday 2024

For convenience, here’s a list of all the Irish holiday images:

28th Jul – Welsh Botanic Garden, Robin, Fishguard
29th Jul – Wicklow Mts, Glendalough, Powerscourt, Rose, Greystones
30th Jul – Liffey, Temple Bar, St Patrick’s Cathedral
31st Jul – Newgrange, Battle of the Boyne
1st Aug – Monasterboice, Mourne, Thrift, Window
2nd Aug – Spelga Dam, Hydrangea, Pipework, Lough Neagh
3rd Aug – Coagh, Springhill, Portrush
4th Aug – Beach at Portrush
5th Aug – Giant’s Causeway, Carrick-a-Rede, Portrush

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Image of the day – 24

Windows have been around almost as long as houses. At first the only opening was the way in and out of the building – think of a tent or an igloo.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

Windows have multiple functions, they let in light and they provide a view, if they can be opened they provide fresh air and allow a room to cool down, when they’re closed they prevent rain from entering and enable sunshine to warm the room.

Windows have been around almost as long as houses. At first the only opening was the way in and out of the building – think of a tent or an igloo, or an Iron-Age thatched hut. Later, other openings, too small and high to walk through, took over the functions of letting in light and so forth, and the doorway could then be closed off with a curtain or a wooden door.

Today we take all of this for granted, of course. As you know, I like to find parallels between the objects in the images and anything else that comes to mind. So today, I’d like to point out the parallel between a window allowing light and fresh air into a room and whatever it is that lets thoughts and fresh ideas into our minds. Some people are more observant than others, some of us have minds that are closed to certain ideas but open to others.

This time I’ll avoid drawing conclusions, but I invite you to give it some thought and share your own ideas and ponderings below.

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Image of the day – 18

Knowing what is the right thing to do is not the same as doing the right thing.

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What’s in an image? Sometimes quite a lot, more than meets the eye.

I’m posting an image every day (or as often as I can). A photo, an image from the internet, a diagram or a map. Whatever takes my fancy.

This is an image of an image of a story. It’s my photo of a stained glass window in a little church in the village of Upper Framilode near the River Severn in Gloucestershire.

The words at the bottom of the window read ‘Go and do thou likewise’ which we might rephrase in today’s English, ‘Now you go and do the same’.

It’s the punchline from a story Jesus told to show that love is an active thing, and if we don’t love the needy people around us in practical ways, how can we claim to be pure, or spiritual, or selfless?

Knowing what is the right thing to do is not the same as doing the right thing. It’s quite easy to mix those two ideas up in our minds, but it’s oh-so-important to have clarity about it.

You can read the story in modern English on the internet.

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