A familiar tree can make an ordinary window feel like a relationship with the seasons.

Watching one thing over time gives you information no amount of looking around can. A single tree outside a window reports the year in detail: the week the buds appear, the day the leaves turn, the storm that took a branch. Because you know what it looked like last month, each change registers, which is exactly what does not happen with scenery you pass once.

Pick something visible from where you live and start noticing it deliberately. A tree, a hill, a patch of sky will do. Look at it at the same time each week and see how much more there is by spring.