Sitting down the next morning with a cup of hot coffee to the bright, responsive monitor, keyboard, desk lamp; the whirr of the computer, the tick of the wood stove. Ah, life was good.
And to sweeten the return to the normalcy we’ve grown so dependent on, on our Saturday morning of restored power, a fleeting pink-orange sunrise.
So even though it was 10 degrees and I was only in robe and slippers, I rushed out with the tripod, fumbled with frozen fingers to set the mirror-lockup, exposure and focus, and clicked a few reminders of the times.
There’s the stuff from the freezer in an ice chest on the back porch where it stayed frozen solid, no problems there. And the blue kerosene container. But the most meaningful feature of the photo to me is the tiny glow of the computer monitor you can see through the window.
Stumble it!
5 responses so far ↓
1 kenju // Feb 20, 2007 at 7:58 am
In that lovely setting, a monitor is sort of an anachronism.
2 gary // Feb 20, 2007 at 8:06 am
As I sit here looking out my window on the world this morning that same diffuse glow is coloring the tops of a few clouds to the west of me. Love the shot. The monitor in the window is just that bit of modernality that adds color to the farm house in the mountains…
3 bluemountainmama // Feb 20, 2007 at 7:59 pm
i wish i was an early riser so i could see that more often….beautiful!
4 Dottie // Feb 20, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Sorry I have not commented in awhile….But I have kept up with your postings. We have had some wild weather here in St. Louis over the past 2 months………Altho I didn’t lose power during our storms, many areas did for several days. I guess one of the perks of being retired (since May) is I don’t have to go out in bad weather - can just hibernate!!!
5 Camelia // Feb 21, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Hi Fred,
What a beautiful photo. We were out of electricity from Tuesday through Friday. We just moved in our house this summer and don’t have a wood burning stove yet. I’ve never been so thrilled to get the electricity back!
Camelia
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