Too much sun light?

Too much sun light, too much brightness, in London! Can you believe it?! Photo was taken at 9am in the sitting room, equipped with no blinds thanks to our hopelessly procrastinating landlord who never delivers what he promises. 

Every surface there is is eagerly reflecting off sunlight, to the point that you feel you are entering some sort of sun box or tanning room.  

Not good for all the perishables and objects which much prefer to be stored in "cool and avoid direct light" places in the room; but effective in luring one to go outside and get immersed in this generous dose of light therapy.

First 2009 Monday

This morning heavy rains were falling down. At one point I suspected that it was actually snowing, but nothing was accumulating on the ground except for grey running water.  "Sleet showers" is a more accurate term according to the weather website. Temperature is forecasted to fall as low as as -3 degrees, theoretically sufficient for some real snow. I was never too keen about snowing when living in NYC, mainly due to practical reasons. But now halfway through winter here in London I do long for some snow. Without snow, winter to me is not complete and therefore will not recede.

New York City never disappoints when it comes to snow. 

Center Park (NYC) after a 2008 snowfall

When the world is blanketed in snow, then I can start look forward to the day when the following Swinburne's poem fits in:

For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.