Catching the Light

I am feeling a little better today which is great and also the sun is shining brightly. I only took a short walk along the street to try and get shot for today but also to get some wonderful sun on my body.

The building at the end of the street I have blipped a few times still isn't finished.. it was to be finished by the end of March so they are well behind. I took a few shots of the men working on the roof and just about used that shot when I spotted this shot just outside our place of the bark of a maple tree catching the light with all its wonderful warm colour. The bark won out.. a little different for me!

About SUNSHINE: It boosts levels of serotonin - the body's natural happy hormone. That's why we tend to feel happier and more energetic when the sun shines. Regular sun can stave off moderate depression, particularly if combined with exercise, such as a walk in the park. It's also been shown that exercising outdoors creates more endorphins in the body than exercising indoors.

A study in the British Medical Journal showed that people in the UK are more likely to die of heart disease in winter than in summer, which is believed to be because of low levels of vitamin D. Where you live in the UK also matters. Blackpool has 27 per cent more hours of sunshine a year than Burnley - and 9 per cent fewer deaths from coronary heart disease.

Cholesterol levels also rise in winter, according to reports in medical magazine The Lancet, and this is because our vitamin D levels fall.
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