A gloriously analogous window, observing rich {and oft-times complex} aspects of life and time; proving that these historic triumphs were built to last, and cannot be silenced indefinitely .

I like this a lot. I also have a bit of a thing for 'proper clocks', so that ticks another box for me.🌞

The grandfather clock sounds so interesting! I wish I had one too! :)

Sandie

time is just that, a marker that life is movimg forward

Most of those grandfather clocks were built before photographs and radios. They not only told the time accurately as long as they were maintained, but their intricate tolling of the hour, half hour, and even, quarter hour kept the house in constant melody. Without even the need for electricity. I think it was about time for you to make that move and I'm sure you're enjoying the result. In time, I believe your neighbors will come to enjoy the welcome chiming every so often as well.

Makes me wish I was in a small town again when I could hear the whistle go off at noon or the hours musically run off during the day. My alma mater is restoring the four sided clock tower on the original building, Bowman Hall. First, they are reinforcing the steel girders supporting the bricks and mortar of the tower. Replacing the roof, and perhaps the pen wind vane on top. The clock is currently out of commission until the synchronized four mechanisms are put in working order. The bell tower below the clock is being enclosed to keep pigeons out and the electronic mechanism that rings a bells restored. I recall in the past that this time of the year they played Christmas carols on those bells.

Ron

Eva, in a sense I think the chimes chimining each quarter hour would signal the hours of isolation in a constant reminder of lost time in this seemingly never ending solitude. Yet would remind me of the beauty that I still had at my control... Reminds me of the old movie "For whom the Bell Tolls."

Mark