Our power went out for about two hours this evening. I was coming in with groceries, Maria was at the vet with Fate, and everything went dark.
When she and Fate came home, it was too dark to unload all of the groceries, and the power company estimated the power would be back on by 6:45. Of course, I decided to take three photos to show the evolution of our living room as dusk turned to night.
It was beautiful sitting there with Maria. She took gorgeous photos and videos, and I took several pictures with my Iphone camera and my Leica. I haven’t looked to see if they came out.
I went to manual control of the Leica this morning, and the fun begins, as one of my readers said.
The image above is the living room just before the power came on.
I saw that the reflection of our single candle threw a gorgeous shadow onto the wall and a circle up on the ceiling.
All in all, it was a peaceful, mystical, spooky time. The groceries are all put away. We have salmon and haddock with some stir-fry leftovers. I made some delicious hot oatmeal this morning.
I spent some morning hours fending off people calling me all kinds of names – liar, evil, etc., the usual – online and went grocery shopping. It is pouring here tonight. It could have been worse. It could have been snowing.
This was the living room mid-way through the outage as it started to go dark.
Big storm is expected on Friday; we might yet get to try out our new generator. Winter is going down hard. I’m sorting through my seeds, eager to get them planted in my two raised garden beds.
I’m writing a piece about learning to live; I’ll get to it later tonight.
I love the reflection on the tulips Maria put there from the candle.
these photos so capture what *no power* looks like inside……..candle or lantern light…….and so many beautiful shadows. These are gorgeous! Glad you didn’t have to use the generator yet……2 hours without power is a mere blip in time! We rarely have outages…..but had one last month…….5 hours. Candles, our camping battery powered lanterns……. we can cook on top of the wood burning stove….so no issue with lack of sustenance…………. the only thing I truly missed was being able to pre-heat the bed with our electric warming blanket!
Put a brick on the stove. Then wrap it in a towel and put it in the bed with you. It will keep you warm for a couple of hours. If you have two bricks, you can alternate the two.
Thanks but we are quite warm- blankets and quilts. I have enough trouble sleeping with my apnea mask, I’m not adding bricks to the mix. Thanks for thinking of us though,it was fun we did not suffer at all.
You are a good man, Jon.
Thank you, Ruth, you are very kind.
Beautiful shapes come out of misfortune. Lose the electricity more often.
Nice..
what about your generator?
what about it? You don’t turn it on for a 90 minute outage