Mono Monday : : Light

It seems that the best way to photographically indicate 'light' is by contrasting it with the absence of light, or shadows. Most of my attempts to do that today were uninspiring, but this 'accidental' photo of the sun shining through the shade cloth on  the arbor onto the panels of our solar lights appeared along with the others when I uploaded them onto the computer, and it seems just right. A sort of deus ex machine appearing out of nowhere to solve the challenge. I take no credit.

It does give me a chance to muse a bit about the effect of light on our lives. Stories abound about people who live in the Arctic winter or are tortured by being deprived of light. Plants can't grow without it. People don't thrive either. 

When we lived in a 100 year old Craftsman house in Berkeley it was charming, but also dark and often foggy, and was a major factor in our decision to move. We looked for years for the right house, and were ready to give up when we finally found this light filled house in Sonoma County. I spend a lot more time at home here than I ever did in Berkeley.

We do, however, need to find some kind of shade for the French doors in our bedroom. The afternoon summer sun shines in just when we are trying to cool our bedroom off. At night, the moonlight shines in. There is a theory that light in the bedroom at night can interfere with sleep, especially moonlight. 

It sort of goes against the grain to be looking for something to block the light that we searched so long to find. Maybe that's why I'm not inspired by looking at hundreds of pictures of window shades, I think we need to go to a shade store and see the real thing and OilMan thinks we should just be able to buy something at the hardware store....