Time to weave new curtains

Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows, and through curtains call on us?
Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
John Donne

I've washed the kitchen curtains many times — but this time the red yarn that has been exposed to the sun disappeared. I've been around long enough to know that it happens but I'm not happy about it.

When I started "Today's window" I knew that I had quite a few paintings and illustrations with windows — but I didn't know that I had so many. So I'll continue with this theme until I run out of windows.

A Little Window

“In good sooth, my masters this is no door, yet it is a little window that looketh upon a great world.”

From A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis StevensonI llustrator: Millicent Sowerby

ESCAPE

How simple life can be!

A cabin,

Mountains, afar and near,

A brook,

Deer, blowing at night.

Perchance,

Rain on the roof,

Then,The loved books,

A fire on the hearth,

And endless timeTo think.

How simple life is!
+++++++++++Jean M. Snyder

From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. Ormsbee and Richmond HuntleyIllustrator: Frank Lieberman

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When looking through my Gutenberg files for more pictures of windows I found a book with the title "A Little Window" by Jean M. Snyder, of course it made me curious and I had to look at it even if I saw that it had no illustrations.
The taxi boat will pick us up at 10 tomorrow morning — we hope to arrive home between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, we have a little over 400 km to drive.

Today's window

Window, South of France 1928
painting byDuncan Grant

Today's window

Maureen at Random Distractions had a lovely picture the other day of a woman standing by a window. A couple of other bloggers (Musings from a muddy island and 60 going on 16) put up "window art" at the same time — I promised to look for "window pictures" when back home; looking through my files I found this painting from the south part of Sweden by the painter Jacob Kulle (1838-1898).
I also realized that I have several other illustrations that would fit into the description — they'll follow.