My life is one of perpetual darkness at the moment.
Ooh that does sound melodramatic!! I awoke at 5:30 this morning (a normal state of affairs) and everywhere is black. I fight my way out of bed (and its a struggle) and when I leave for work 6:10 it could be midnight, a singing Robin brightens the darkness briefly).
When I come home at night even at 5pm my house is shrouded in shadows. I know its there but its just a shadow.
I don't like this time of year everywhere looks forlorn. Still its part of the changing span of life and there are always things to see, but I look forward to the Spring to get the sun on my back and some longer sunlit days.
Not to worry, won't be long before you start getting more daylight.
ReplyDeleteI wonder Pete, have you ever considered a lumen-theraphy?
ReplyDeleteI know what you mean! Horrible at the moment. At 4:30 its pitch black already. Once I met a woman working with a scanning electron microscope in a room without windows and electric lights who did not see daylight at all throughout the winter working week, getting to work at 7, going home at 5... horrible, looked like a zombie
ReplyDeleteCarin - what's that then?!?!?!
ReplyDeleteI'm actually fine really just its a bit sad not seeing the house in daylight.
Sorry I think you'd call it "Light Therapy"
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_therapy
scroll down to "Seasonal affective disorder"
But even if I am told that the therapy is very effectiv, it will not enable you to see your house! LOL LOL LOL
Not much fun I know.. Couldn't agree more about feeling the sun on one's back - and the first time it's felt in Spring.... it's great :)!
ReplyDeleteI know the feelin Pete, although luckily I now don't have to get up as early any more since I can walk to work in 20 minutes if I rush (doesn't usually happen since I don't actually want to go to work...)
ReplyDeleteSo it is light by the time I leave the house, actually it's light by the time I wake up.
It's been lovely and sunny here, warm too, although I hear it's meant to get very cold this weekend with a wind chill of -10...
You see Pete I'm the opposite, I love the dark days of winter/ Don't get me wrong I like the long summer nights too, but seeing the skeletal trees against a winter sky, moonshadows over fields and so on lifts me, and come the 21st December, it starts getting lighter again (in theory). A friend of mine's wife used to get so depressed at this time of year until I held a candlelit session for her and some other friends. In complete darkness I lit the first candle, then in turn we lit candles from each other in a circle until the room was filled with light. Partly to celebrate friendship, but mainly as lighting candles in the winter brings light into our lives.
ReplyDeletewelcome areeiro
ReplyDeleteBR - I like crisp winters days with bright blue skies BUT I dislike getting up in "the middle of the night"