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This summer has been very sunny overall. Recently we've had weeks of gorgeous sunny weather. One cabin friend says that this has been the best summer ever, weather wise.
Wouldn't you know that today, after a glorious sunny start, the clouds rolled in. We do need the rain, so I am not complaining.
I'm wondering how to keep the cabin from getting too dark in feel on a dark cloudy day. Our place is all wood - and it has a warm glow to it. However, on days like today and those later in the fall, the depth of the forest with its greens, greys and blacks reaches into the cabin somehow. Cutting down a hundred trees to let in the light is not the answer. What to do?
1. Turn on the lights. All of them. I do this but the warm wood seems to soak it up. Besides, it's a waste of electricity. I suppose if we had painted everything white we wouldn't have this problem. I shut most of the lights off.
2. Just use lots of the light in the area where you are at the moment. Doing that now.
3. Get busy and stop thinking about the light/dark issue. Bake something; work on writing; read.
Yes I know that is the right answer. So I will sign off and do just that.
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Perhaps the right answer is to simply embrace the dark days with the same joy that you embrace the bright ones. They are both natural.
ReplyDeleteLike the old man told the young man when he was asked; 'why is is that you are not cold,' on a blustery winter day--The old man replied that the trick wasn't to not feel the cold, but rather, to not mind the cold. To be cold in the winter was as natural as to be warm in the summer.
So too, the occasional dark day in the woods is as natural as the sunny day, and should be enjoyed just as much, as a natural part of the mysterious workings of our ever changing world.
Thanks for commenting, David. Indeed that is the 'right' answer.
DeleteI also realized that another trick is to go outside and enjoy the woods, for no matter how cloudy or rainy or snowy, it's always lighter outside in the natural light.
To 'go outside and enjoy the woods,' is always the right answer! :)
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