rectangles in our environment
Thursday, April 6th, 2006through the window, those twelve squares
i see a gnarled pear tree with hanging branches
berthold brecht ‘nature poem’, 1937
i was off to the bookshop a couple of weeks ago wondering to myself just how many rectangles i see in an average day when i turned the corner at the top of the stairs to be confronted by this view:

how many rectangles?! answers via the comments link please; correct answers will win the trip of a lifetime to a asylum.