Wow! I will ask the Craftsman/Carpenter next time that I will be ‘Up North’.

Thanks, this place restored my sanity after family business abroad and flying back from Schiphol to Detroit a couple of days after the ‘Christmas bomber’ .

I like the verticals of the trees, which seem goal-oriented or headed toward something (heaven?) which contrast so well with the calmness of the interior scene, with its window and table and chair. The off-set table is perfect to add the tweak that keeps it from being too still, too centered. A really fine job — a still life!

You are my third friend whose son is an actor.

As for the proportions in the image, the window was chosen by me but Troels found the table at a local carpenter and lined it up with the window. Our impression had been that the table was wider than the window from sitting there and looking out. Reading your comments, we realized that the widths do match!

Any Goldsworthy should be famous by sheer virtue of his or her name alone. Received a coffee table book for the holidays which turned out to be an Andy G. knockoff. At times like this one can see the difference between talent and plagiarism – and not a very talented plagiarism at that.

My congrats to Troels and his minimalism. He – and maybe the two of you- have achieved a state of grace to which many aspire. But I do have to ask: does that orderliness extend to proportions? It appears that the width of the table in the image is half the span of the windows, and everything is lined up neatly to show that. The photograph is quite graceful with a sense of natural laws at work in the trees, set within a quiet feeling of human order.

Speaking of ephemera, my son Adam is an actor, and so often the plays in which he performs, with all their castings, negotiations, memorizing, blocking out, sets and costume designing and making, lighting and putting on for audiences drawn from near and far, are then, as the last curtain falls, relegated to a few stills and videos and the vagaries of ever fading memory. But you look ahead in theater – not back.