Something about the light

Almost every morning I climb the stairs to my roof terrace. I look out over the roof tops and salt marshes to the far horizon and catch my breath. Not from exertion, but the sunlight, glinting on the water, pierces my eyes and my heart. It dazzles me each and every time. There’s something about the quality of the light here. It illuminates my world, casting a spell, and I’m drawn to seek out the heavens, reflected in the water.

Somewhere that I can lose myself for a little while, hiding from a reality I’m powerless to change. Where sky meets sea is my escape. A lightening of heart, even when the spirit is low. The light changes with the hour, brilliant at midday and softer as the afternoon fades.

Some of these places are denied to me right now, but I know that they’re there, quietly waiting.

Thanks, Amy, for sharing your beautiful light.

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #138 – Natural Light

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      1. It’s been a challenging week my friend. I lost my mom a few days ago so just trying to maneuver my way through a death during Covid times. 💕

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  13. Easy to see why you love your Algarve home. I could even be tempted to get out of bed early for that scene. I can just imagine sitting on your terrace with a pot of coffee and a good book (as I don’t suppose I could get a newspaper in the area)! The natural lighting is just perfect for the scenery as well – the salt pans picture is especially eye-catching. It dazzles the eyes.

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    1. My neighbour buys a Telegraph every day and passes it on to us. That do you, Mari? 🙂 🙂 Those salt pans really do sparkle at the minute. They are busy preparing them for the summer heat.

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      1. I’m more a Guardian type myself, but anything that gives me ‘long reads’ about world affairs will do. I read a couple of online newspapers like the Huff Post, New York Times, the Bangkok Post (for a laugh) and another UK one just to get the other side of things. I never watch TV news because I dislike the short ‘headlines’ of news it gives with little analysis. But I never buy a paper on holiday, but if I lived there I think I’d have to keep up with things back home. Guess I could never cut the strings.

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  14. How wonderful to have a beautiful view from a roof terrace (and to have a roof terrace)! All these views are just lovely. There are two-story houses where we live, but our rental is one-story which is what we were looking for. Originally almost all houses were a single story, but now there are many more two-story homes. I’ve always lived in a two-story house but my husband wanted to be in a single-story house here and the cost is a big difference, but not just in materials. In the summer heat, which can last 5-6 months, air conditioning costs can be hundreds of dollars more per month and since bedrooms are generally upstairs, you have to keep it much cooler on the ground floor to have it even tolerable at night. Things you don’t know when you move to a different climate! Fortunately, our realtor and my brother clued us in to that.

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    1. I hate air con, Janet, but with your climate I don’t suppose there’s much choice. We usually only have July and August unbearably hot, and we spend some of every day at the beach then, where it’s easier to keep cool. I do prefer to go north in those months but the jury is still out on whether we’ll be able to get to the UK this summer.

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      1. Yes, when it’s 100-110, it’s quite hot even though it’s dry heat. The last summer we were in Illinois, our AC went out and they couldn’t get a new unit in for a week. It’s was in the 90’s every day and humid. Our rental house didn’t have good air flow and most of the rooms we used were on the west side and the bedrooms were upstairs. It was quite something and made me appreciate AC even though I don’t use it any more often than I have to. I keep it much warmer in the summer than most people here and when we lived in Illinois and Ohio, I would hear the AC’s all around us running when I wasn’t using ours at all.

        I certainly hope you can get back to the UK this summer!

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  17. Oh, I could live with that view every morning! Gorgeous! We started watching the Madeleine McCann drama on Netflix last night! OH MY GOSH! What a beautiful resort that was, but how in the world did that all take place? We are watching more tonight! Cady

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    1. It’s a dreadful story, Cady. We visited Praia da Luz for the first time just days before she was taken. My heart goes out to that couple. All these years later they still don’t know. We’ve never been back, though we’ve passed by. 🙄💕

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