As soon as I saw this delightfully colorful and unique puzzle I knew I wanted it on my table. I decided pretty quickly into assembly that I would glue and frame this one for my office / puzzle room. I figured it would be fun to look at on the wall above where my desk faces.

Randy helped some on this one too and did quite a bit of work on the bricks between window frames which was super helpful. Each of the windows were so different that it was really fun to pick one and do it to near completion before tackling another one. I love all the cities represented and have now been to half of them in person.

I didn’t realize at first this was another Dominic Davison puzzle until somewhere during the build I really looked carefully at the Pisa, Italy scene and realized I had just that scene as a 1000 piece puzzle in my collection and I knew it was by Dominic Davison. So then I started looking at the box more carefully and saw to my delight that yes indeed, he did the entire puzzle image. No wonder I loved it at first glance, right?! I guess I am nothing if not consistent in my puzzle artist patterns. 🤷‍♂️

Here are my four most favorite windows / cities to put together. At the time I did this puzzle, I had not yet been to London or Paris. That has since changed as we went there in Summer 2024 — only two weeks before the Summer Olympics started!

I was born and raised in California so I have been to San Francisco numerous times and over the Golden Gate Bridge even more on the way to Santa Rosa where my grandmother was from originally. My absolute favorite window to build was the one of Pisa, Italy. Randy and I spent 10 glorious days in Italy on a tour for our honeymoon that encompassed Rome, Pisa, Siena, Florence, Tuscany area, Venice, Assisi, and Verona back in November 2004. It was a fabulous and unforgettable trip!

I enjoyed the rest of the windows as well, but New York is the only one of these amazing cities I’ve been to so far.

As you can see in the beautiful window representing a Japanese garden, I ended up with a missing piece somehow. I searched everywhere in my office / puzzle room for it for weeks and never found it. Eventually, I carefully took the puzzle apart in large sections and returned it to the box in hopes of stumbling across the piece when I least expected, but it’s now been almost three full years since this one was completed. I think it’s probably safe to assume by now it is long gone.

I recently (in the last two months) decided I would put the puzzle into a pile of puzzles to take to a puzzle swap at my local library at some point. I knew I would never find the missing piece so what was the point in holding on to it any longer. It can be loved by someone else for its 1499 intact pieces. And then, shortly after boxing it up, on a whim, I decided I was going to replace the puzzle and do it again. It was so much fun and I love the image so much that I thought — I can just do the new one and hopefully there will not be any missing pieces. Then I can frame and hang in my office as originally intended. So I promptly got out my phone and found it on Amazon for a decent price, and it’s now in the to do puzzle rotation to be brought out and enjoyed again at some point in the near future.