Piano room in the rain
Rain on the glass, a dog asleep, nobody expecting you to play
An upright piano stands against a deep green wall beneath a portrait, its music stand holding an open score while brass lamplight waits over the keys. Rain streaks the tall window onto a grey garden, ivy spills from the shelves, and a golden retriever sleeps under the bench. It smells of old paper and damp leaves, and the whole room is holding still.
Indoors, Countryside, Day, Rain, Calm, Melancholy, Music, Thinking, Warm light, Dim
In this room
- A journal: what you write stays in the room, and only the people you choose can read it.
- A sound of its own — rain, a fire, a radio station to leave playing.
- A clock that keeps your time.
- A window with the real weather where you are.
- A note for the day, where you will see it.
- Frames for your own photographs.
- An assistant that knows the room and what you keep in it.
- A shelf for your files.
- A lamp that turns the room from light to dark.
- Rain runs down the glass.
- The lamps give a soft glow.
- After dark the same room has a night of its own, with its own light.