My window is two floors up, looking across a street, with a drab building directly ahead, and a red brick building poking up behind it. The charcoal-colored asphalt paving the street is aging, with many settling cracks running both across and along it, forming mostly rectangular unbroken sections, though a few bend and meander in arcs, circles, and webs. Several regular sized (and some extra small) manhole covers are embedded in the pavement, with a rusty hue marking their age. Some of the covers are an inch or two lower than the surface, collecting the rain in little puddles. Leaves collect in the corner between the pavement and the curb, crumpled and smashed by tires and shoes. A single dashed yellow line separates traffic in both directions, with space on each side for a line of parked cars. Each spot is marked by a small black post with a little green sign, too small to read. There's even one on the handicap spot, marked by extra white and blue striping on the pavement. About a third of the spots are filled, which seems unusually low. A wide sidewalk runs along the far side, which, still wet from the rain, takes on a darker gray-brown tone. Some patches near the lampposts are discolored in red-orange splotches, and there are spots that look a bit more blue, or green, or even dry, for no clear reason. Six small identical green lampposts are in view on the far side, with a fluted column leading up to a lantern in a somewhat ornamental style. One has a parking sign, a nearly square rectangle, but just a little taller than wide, screwed in with bolts centered at the top and bottom. The top section is black with a large bold number, the middle section is navy blue with an assortment of symbols, and the bottom, a thin band of white with small lettering. To enter the central doors of the large drab building across, you can take either a set of small stairs to the left, or a very long ramp, spanning half the building to the right. Each is lined with a plain white railing with little vertical bars spaced every few inches, protecting you from the five or six foot drop. Only the stairs have an awning protecting from the rain. This building is wide, probably ten times as wide as it is tall, and about two floors tall. That would normally be easy to specify, but the large set of wide green-blue tinted windows on the left side of the building are vertically offset from the large set of wide green-blue tinted windows on the right side of the building enough that they couldn't possibly be the same floor, but not enough that they could possibly be fully separate floors. The blinds in each window are mostly tilted closed, but raised to different heights, giving different amounts of small views into each office. The far left three windows look into a dark office with a small bunch of yellow flowers in the sill. The next six look into a larger room segmented by gray cubicle walls. A brown-gray file cabinet stands in the back with a large BLUES magnet on the side. In the right group of windows only two are raised, showing some sort of spray bottle in the first, and a couple trinkets in the second. The walls are made of some flat bland modern material, broken up into panels as simply as the sidewalk just below it. About halfway up, the panels switch from one boring shade of gray-brown to a slightly lighter shade of brown-gray. To the right of the doors sits a small black access terminal with a faint red LED strip lining the top. Next to that, a large sign prohibits smoking within fifty feet, justified by a hazard diamond reading four-four-three. Above and to the right, a white all-direction security camera pokes out from the building. The roof is almost entirely empty from this view, besides a few tiny antenna and a single pipe rising up from above the door. Between the building and the sidewalk, the ramp and the sidewalk, and the building and sidewalk again are three regions of well kept plant life. The leftmost has a small arc of grass in the front, dotted with brown and yellow leaves. Behind this, a few small trees (starting to turn yellow) and bushes (still a vibrant green) grow in the mulch, but directly in the center a dark metal slab is set into the building. Two large pipes jut out, along with six metal handles, their red paint peeling to reveal white beneath. The middle section is mostly mulch, with wispy green and yellow bushes running in a long line, broken up only by three small trees. These must be new or injured, as each is tied to three metal stakes plunged into the ground around them. The first is the most normal looking of the bunch, the profile of the branches and orange leaves almost taking on the shape of a leaf itself. The second looks a little more abnormal, somewhat asymmetric and with a tall oblong shape that doesn't look quite right. One branch juts out aggressively from the top, the only branch of dozens to have bright green leaves. The third and final tree looks somewhat dead, having already dropped all but eight or nine leaves, though it likely just has a head start on its friends. I say this, but each tree actually looks too far apart to comfortably talk. The third section of plants rises into a hill on the right side of the building, with four much larger trees rising from the grass, littering the ground with yellow leaves. Above the drab building, a much taller red (or actually orange-red) brick building rises up. This building has much more even dimensions than the first, probably four or five floors and about the same width, but squinting a little, the shape almost reminds me of a castle. A segment in the closest corner extends up defensively, several feet taller than the rest of the building, but has no windows to take advantage of this height. Above a white trim, a thin and sparsely supported light-gray metal railing lines all portions of the roof, with security cameras perched on the closest and far left corners. A single large piece of machinery is mounted on the right side of the roof, the darkest form in the scene. Two wide cylinders emerge from the top with a large metal grate on the front. Metal scaffolding surrounds it, with a small metal ladder leading down-to and up-from the main roof level. Behind, the sky is completely blank, divided in two by a large standalone lamppost, rising up and above my window.