Across the Courtyard

As the storm rolled in last night, I opened my arcadia door and my windows, and enjoyed the cool air and the sound of the rain. However as the storm died down, and the rain stopped, I began to hear other sounds.

I recently moved to an early 1950’s courtyard apartment. The apartments face each other across the pool, and it makes friendly neighbors.

Anyway I began to hear the sounds of my neighbors with their windows and doors open. A child in the upstairs apartment behind me, practicing the piano…
The people across the pool talking about the rain….
The faint traffic on the wet streets in the distance.

As I listened, I realized that I had heard something like this before, then it hit me! It sounded just like the sounds of the Apartment complex in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rear Window”

Life is strange.

Her Big Night