Mornings are fascinating; you see skies full of clouds, silhouettes breaking in the morning light and an orange disk burning the horizon; visuals that you never see from the ground.

The four windows – each 6feet by 5.5feet – of the big-room look out onto this amazing landscape and in the early morning that vista is ever-changing and totally surreal.

The thumbnail shows clouds nestled in the valley that stretches through the Southside, behind the modern downtown and out 279North. Knew 279N lay in a valley, but never knew that the valley runs through the South Hills – in the Pittsburgh narrative, the Northside, Downtown and the South Hills are not connected.