from one kitchen window I can see a vast expanse of lawn that needs to be mowed, then some arbor vitae that block the view. From the other kitchen window there's my former vegetable garden that I ceded over to the groundhogs and rabbits, and is now a mess of russian thistles and pokeberries that are treatening to take over the yard like triffids. Beyond that there's the buffalo farm, the only one in New Jersey, then some wooded hills. From the computer window, there's open fields to the horizon, usually corn or wheat, but this year, just weeds and occasional trees, and, right against my property, another attempt to grow pumpkins, but since this particular farmer is the only farmer in NJ who can't grow pumpkins, it will eventually become weeds. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot the power lines with those great big ugly metal towers, because in New Jersey, there seems to be a law that no good view should go unspoiled.