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After a couple of years we are seen to be returning to Australia on board a large passenger aircraft of the time, I do not remember the type of plane but I do recall the wonder of flying over the Himalayas at something like 30,000 feet, fantastic does not really describe the feeling. Arid and barren are some of the thoughts that come to mind while trying to describe such a sight as if you could reach out of the window and touch the clouds or even the mountains for that matter. Well there you see more windows and perhaps a few more still to be experienced to uncover what might lie in the next building or room. Marvels stir as coming upon the window quietly, almost innocent footsteps echoes and blends within the walls anticipates your arrival glistening with freshness to take you to another discovery of enjoyment. Can you stand the waiting the constant speculation as to the next vision of beauty that will behold your eyes?
Well now let me see years on from these exploits a trip to the far north a place called Mount Phillip in Western Australia to what is known as a Station where cattle are grazed on huge expanses of land, windmills are set to draw water from the earth to feed them and the land is very flat and barren. This sight was seen both from the window of the vehicle we used to get there and from another type of window those in the sheds where the Roo Shooters quarters are only these are just rectangles of wood with no glass but a window none the less. Where you look for miles and miles in any direction and see nothing but flat land with low lying bush and tundra blowing about in the wind.
A truly desolate but all the same fascinating picture to behold. I am sure there are many windows that I have not mention here that should be but a last one of recent times is a trip to a modern 30 odd story building in the city overlooking the Swan river and Kings Park both well known locals of Perth City in Western Australia, well the magnificence of looking down on such a sight is both heart rendering and memorable. Kings Park which I have seen from many others locations in its large expanse of land, through the windows of this majestic building is reduce to a smallness that seemed surreal at the time, taking into account that trees look so minute when in fact the mind tells me that they are indeed huge in reality. A winding snake that seems so small in comparison to ground level, the Swan River although in motion calmed to almost stillness by the height of that wide-angle vision from the large windows of this Building.
Time as always dictates a stories length but let me finish this one with a thought that of all the windows in the world one could look out of and be happy with, I feel that the windows of my eyes are perhaps the most ingenious and entertaining of all. A gifted self contained “Window”.
Stu [stumacsu] Stuart Charles Mackenzie
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