Winter Light
I am sitting in my west-facing office, which has some problems during the afternoon with the sunlight light. Today there are scattered clouds, and for the hour just past I have had the occasional shaft of sunlight break free from the clouds and shoot straight over the top of the monitor and into my eyes. This problem lasts longer each day but is not as bad during the summer, when the sun slowly sinks from the top of the window down to the roof of the house opposite--it is only the last little bit of that time that the angle is such that I cannot work at my computer.
This time of year, with the sun so low in the sky, it slips in from the left (south) edge of the window already at eye level, and creeps blindingly along the rooftops until it finally goes below them. Only the clouds today kept me from being chased away from my desk. Then all of a sudden there was light, but not in my eyes. I looked up, and the sun had just dipped behind the building (from my window) but was still lighting up the top of my building, and reflecting from the second story windows onto the house in front of me, making it glow with that honey-rich late afternoon light that you only get late in the year. It was so utterly lovely.
This time of year, with the sun so low in the sky, it slips in from the left (south) edge of the window already at eye level, and creeps blindingly along the rooftops until it finally goes below them. Only the clouds today kept me from being chased away from my desk. Then all of a sudden there was light, but not in my eyes. I looked up, and the sun had just dipped behind the building (from my window) but was still lighting up the top of my building, and reflecting from the second story windows onto the house in front of me, making it glow with that honey-rich late afternoon light that you only get late in the year. It was so utterly lovely.