Outside the windows

The neighborhood we're in here is so hard to describe.  Like the rest of the country, it seems to be full of contrasts.  Some of the houses are large and beautiful, and some appear to be more like.... well, Strider asked what all the "shacks" were. 

I took my camera upstairs and took pictures through the windows in each of our bedrooms to give a version of a 360 degree tour.  Here's what we can see from here:

This is is from Rayna's window, and looks over our backyard (or garden as they say here).

 Out Strider's window (on a cloudier day) -- some of the smaller abodes:

From the window in Cole and Milo's room (they have a great view, huh?  Glad they don't care).  We are very, very close to the neighbor's house!

And these last pictures are taken from our bedroom in the front of the house:

From here we can see a very tall house with an empty top floor, some sort of factory-looking building, several clotheslines,and a very beautiful and mysterious house that you can't really see in these pictures.... More on that one later.

We don't have any windows that face the back of the house, so I took this picture from the backyard, in order to complete the 360.

It's definitely an interesting place!