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It still feels like summer here, there's not a leaf to be seen that has changed color and it is still around 90* everyday. Yet even if I didn't know what month it was, I could "feel" it was fall. I am slipping into "hibernation mode" just like I used to do up there in the fall. I don't want to get up in the morning and I am sleepy as soon as the sun sets in the evening. And even more telling is the fact that fall was always the time of year up north I felt most inspired to create, especially paint. I think I'll be making some paintings this weekend because I feel very strong the need to express myself artistically. Makes me wonder if one's natural instincts and "body clock" are set by where they were born/raised and not where they end up?
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Maybe you have a slight form of seasonal affective disorder. I think that's what it's called - where you lose energy &/or become depressed because the daylight hours become shorter.
It gets dark up here by 7! In mid-December it will be dark by 4 pm. Yuck. We're on the eastern edge of the Central time zone, so we lose almost a whole hour. Cincinnat is more on the western edge of the Eastern time zone, so you get more light. If I remember correctly, the daylight hours were shorter in FL than in OH.
Nighty night..... [img]graemlins/whatever.gif[/img]
http://www.mindspring.com/~cr_young/...a%20sunset.jpg
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Yes I think I do have S.A.D. but last year it didn't seem to affect me at all. Actually it stays lighter here than Ohio for about an hour in the dead of winter. The earliest it gets dark here even in December is about 6:00, as opposed to 4:30 or 5:00 in Cincinnati. One would think with as much as I am in the sun I would have enough "built up" that by now it wouldn't matter the days are getting shorter. I could never live in Alaska, not for anything...
Yet my favorite times of day are morning and about an hour before sunset when the sunlight isn't so harsh and casts long shadows. To me Heaven would be in a perpetual state like that, mellow light and long shadows. And golden yellow. [img]graemlins/sun.gif[/img]
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Cool picture you posted there Lake. If I go to the beach to see the sunset that's about the time I take off. Once it touches the water I don't like being on the beach anymore. My brother on the other hand, he loves to be down on the beach at night. I find the waves coming in at night forbidding and cold, leaving me with an empty feeling rather than the contentment it gives me when the sun is still out. Standing on the beach at night always leaves me feeling very isolated, lonely. I could be with 100 people and I would still feel that way I think.
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LAKE - I use pictures from "Webshots" for my screensaver. And one of the pictures may be the same one you posted or one very similar to it. They have some neat pictures & I download as many free one as I can and use those as the screensaver. I have pictures of animals, flags, beach scenes by the dozen & too many to tell you about. [img]biggrin.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]
