2025 Sunday Stills: Windows – What Stories Lie Behind

“Every window tells a different story”.

If only I could hear some of the stories these windows could tell. I wish I could remember what it was like to gaze out these windows and watch the comings and goings of friends and family.

Great Falls, South Carolina

The above home is the first place I ever lived. If only I could know the stories those windows would tell if times long ago.

2912 1/2 ‘E’ Street
San Diego, California

“Bless those who see life through a different window and those who understand their view.”
— Unknown author

Through every Window in every home tells a chapter in the story of my journey through life.

The above home is the second home I lived in from the time I was two until the summer before I started kindergarten. That summer we moved to the home shown below. I loved looking through the windows and knew that excitement and adventure was awaiting me on the outside.

228 S. Meadowbrook Drive
San Diego, California

“The window is where curiosities meet. Insiders are curious about the outside, and outsiders are curious about the inside”.

— Author Unknown

Peeking through the curtains, watching and waiting with anticipation … wondering who will be dropping by … curiosity beckons me to the window.

6441 Birchwood Street
San Diego, California

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

Grace Church San Diego
Formerly Known as Scott Memorial Baptist Church
4637 Oregon Street
San Diego, CA 92116

The many Windows in the church could tell a vast array of stories regarding the comings and goings of all who consider this like home and all its inhabitants like family. This church was almost like a second home spending every Sunday morning and evening, and every Wednesday night as well. Sometimes the rest of the week as well, in my youth many a day was spent with friends playing, connecting, conversing with each other like we couldn’t wait to hear the stories we knew these windows were hearing.

Terri’s Sunday Stills-Windows

God Bless. Have a funtastic week. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.

Birds of the Week #CXXIV —

Nycticorax nycticorax

Black-crowned night heron

The Black-crowned Night Heron was previously described as Ardea nycticorax, based on specimens from southern Europe. The Swedish naturalist, Carl Linnaeus, placed it in the genus Ardea; the same grouping as herons, cranes and egrets.

It is currently placed in the genus Nycticorax that was described in 1817 by the English naturalist Thomas Forster.

The Black-crowned night heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) is a medium-sized heron found throughout a large part of the world, including parts of Europe, Asia, and North and South America. 

Black-crowned night herons do not fit the typical body form of the heron family. They are relatively stocky with shorter bills, legs, and necks than their more familiar cousins, the egrets and “day” herons. When they are in a resting position their posture is somewhat hunched, but when they are hunting they extend their necks and look more like other wading birds.

These Black-crowned Night Herons can be spotted along Paradise Point at Mission Bay in San Diego, California.

Bird of the Week CXXIV

Photo Credit:©️Valerie Williams Jenkins

Location: Paradise Point Mission Bay; San Diego, California, USA

God Bless. Get Outdoors and Enjoy Nature’s Beauty. Thank you for visiting and sharing your time and thoughts with us. I appreciate y’all very much.