Inside looking out

This is the view from the room where we often have breakfast and lunch. In this strange Covid world, when we are at home most of the time, we know this view intimately, and we notice every change.
 
Right now the photinia hedge, recently trimmed, is putting on a second show of new red growth. Under the hedge the wretched myna birds continue to land in the blue salvia, apparently so that they can get to the nectar in the flowers. Unfortunately they damage the salvia in the process, but it has grown stronger and better able to withstand their onslaught.
 
The battle scarred gum tree has tossed a few branches and a great many leaves at us in recent storms, but it is surviving and putting on new growth.
 
Today the sky is a beautiful cloudless blue, and if you look carefully you can see the wraith of last night’s moon.
 
We can enjoy our view, leave it and return to it. I can hardly imagine what it would be like to be one of the people in hotel quarantine, confined to one room and one view. How important that view would become.