Day 66: Out My Window

The Prompt: Describe what you see outside your window.

My window faces the back of the house, so when you first look out of it, you can see the backyards of the other duplex town homes.  Directly underneath my window you can see our own backyard.  Each house was built in the same uniform fashion, identical structures with plastic white fences penning up the backyard.  The houses are painted in different dark or neutral colors, such as grey and a creamy yellow.  Being that my window is on the second floor, I peek inside my neighbors' fences and see what they are doing.  Nothing exciting ever happens.  Children sit on the lanai and play darts or sing songs.  One neighbor uses her lawn furniture as an office for her job, spending a majority of her time on her phone and laptop.  On the weekends, our neighbors sit in their yards, play loud music, and laugh drunkenly late into the night.


My favorite scene outside my window is the large plumeria tree to the right of the corner of our fence.  The crown of the tree resembles a full snowglobe, with a few branches protruding from the circle.  As the tree buds, it is decorated with long, oval, thick, dark green leaves.  When the tree is in full bloom, the branches grow bare, and all you can see are white-petaled flowers with soft yellow centers on the ends of them.  Eventually, the flowers fall off and sprinkle the grass surrounding the tree trunk.

The sky varies.  Most of the time, it is bright blue with white puffy clouds streaked across.  At the moment, it is as black as tar, with several stars scattered across it.  Usually I can see Orion.  Interrupting my view is the fronds of a palm tree.  To the far right, beyond the roofs of the houses, is a cluster of burnt orange-tinted clouds.  Standing out from the rest of the sky is a lone star, shining brighter than the rest, like hope at the end of a tunnel.  Perhaps it is.