Ajar: Quiet Windows

Ajar keeps you company while you work or read: a window standing beside you on the desk, with rain falling on a quiet street outside. There's nothing to set and nothing to count. No timers, no streaks, no instructions. Get on with your day, look up now and then, and it's still raining. EIGHT WINDOWS Each one is a whole window: the view, the glass, the frame, the sill and the sound all belong to it. Each keeps your own time of day, from morning light to the middle of the night. • Rainy Street: Victorian brick terraces in the rain, from an upstairs sash window. Free, and complete. • Snowy Cabin: snow falling on the pines, through the frosted pane of a log cabin. • Night Train: fields and towns passing in the dark, from a sleeper's window. • Seaside Afternoon: a sandy bay through blue louvred shutters, waves running up the sand all afternoon. • Summer Night: rice paddies, a bamboo grove,…