This picture may not seem like much to you...in fact you may even be thinking "okay so what's so special about this? Its not even a great photo!" Bear with me, there is a method to my madness. Its not what you see but how you are seeing it. I'm sure there may even be one or two of you out there that will catch it right off the bat I don't know. Its the glass, these are the original panes of glass. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find glass from this time period?! Its just glass you say...oh no its not just any glass! Look closely and you will see all the imperfections in it. The right hand corner has a huge bubble that stretches and distorts the tops of the pine tree, the left pane; what looks to be like telephone wires isn't. Those are waves in the glass. I couldn't get a great shot because of the time of day and the way the light was coming in from behind me...but when up close you can see all the little bubbles in the glass. Friends that were with me while I took this had their eyes rolled up in their heads. "It's glass Michelle!" I was so excited and tried to explain, this isn't just any glass! I couldn't wait until after the meeting to ask if indeed these were the original panes as the frames looked to be newer. My "friend" Hal (the Meeting House Historian) was only too happy to explain that the frame had rotted and in the 70's had to be replaced. Each pane was lovingly removed and the window frame was replaced in the exact dimentions,using the same type of wood to replace the six over six paned windows. These windows slide, they are not weighted, so they are held up or down with a stick. Hal was impressed with not only my knowledge of it but that I would even point out something insignificant to others. So I said to him and my friends, "Sit by the window. Now move yourself up and down, it has the effect of fun house mirrors! The world out side moves in a whole different way." They had to agree it did. I then added, "Now think of this, here you are inside, you are in the past inside this building. You can't help but to feel it. You are drawn to it. But when you look out the window, can you not imagine a child looking out this window daydreaming of the future? While it is the present for us now, it becomes the future from this aspect. The window is literally sitting on the cusp of time. Now how cool is it to sit in one spot and be with the past,living in the present looking to the future?!" Of course I was told that I had a vivid imagination...but still satisfied with myself because I got it! As I stepped out into the cold air I turned and smiled and said,"Yes I do and isn't life just grand! Because think of it, with out a vivid imagination and daydreams, you wouldn't have all that you have today! What man can dream, man can make a reality!" ~~ and I thank each and everyone of you for tolerating my "vivid imagination". Love, peace and light Michelle