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I was completely absorbed in the design of a roundabout, listening to Rachmaninov’s 2nd Piano Concerto.

Why I turned my head to the window at all, I can’t now recall.

But what I saw I haven’t seen for many a month, but if I’m honest that’s just because I haven’t really looked – I’ve been ‘too busy’.

Only now in winter does the light and weather do justice to the drama  and intricate detail of the landscape.

So what did I see?

Just that – the landscape, not just as a rough canvas of land sea and sky that serves as a backdrop for our own lives, but having a being and purpose all of its own, and in which we have but a small and fleeting part to play.