Location Taken: Agewa Bay, Ontario, Canada
Time Taken: June 2010
Yes, it’s another from Agewa Bay. I rather like the photos I took there. That and I really need to continue sorting through my photos. I’ve only sorted a couple hundred or so, so all the ones I’ve posted are from around the same time. Ah well, such is life.
I like pine trees.
They’re such dependable trees, being coniferous and all. They’re adapted to northern climates, just like I am, so I feel a bond. They’ve got the thin leaves that don’t drop, the conical shape to shed snow, waxy coatings, and all sorts of anti-freezing mechanisms. I’ve got a genetic tendency to plumpness, a strong internal furnace, skin that’s highly cold resistant, and a system geared for cold temperatures and low sunlight.
You’ve heard of Seasonal Affective Disorder, right? Where people get mopey and don’t feel like doing much when winter comes around? Well, there’s rarer variants for all the other seasons, and I’m pretty sure I’ve got one for spring. I always get mopey and feel icky when the weather first hits the 60’s-80’s in the spring. My mood settles down some after that first spike, but I still feel lethargic until the temperatures start dropping in the fall. I’ve already dealt with some of that this year, since the weather pattern here was so odd. We seem to have skipped winter entirely (no significant snowfall and higher-than average temperatures, more fall-like conditions), and then had a heat spike in March, far earlier than usual. So to my body, it seemed like we went from Fall to Summer. This has confused the heck out of it. I always feel better in the winter, and it’s a time for me to recharge. And I always feel worse in the summer, since the temperatures and sunlight time are so much higher.
Did I mention I’ve got a form of heat- and light-sensitivity? If I’m exposed to high heat (and high to me means above 70°F/22°C), I melt. I get solidly lethargic and my brain doesn’t seem to want to function. And when I get too much light, I get twitchy and feel icky. And that’s set at a low tolerance level too. I’ve got a low light bulb in my room (I’d say 40 watt, but light bulbs have changed enough recently that that’s no longer an accurate label) and even that’s too much for me. I get twitchy after only 10-15 minutes of having that light on.
And sunlight combines both of them. If I take an hour walk in the day, even along shadier paths, I feel solidly icky for days afterwards. If I take an hour walk at night, on the other hand, I only have muscle and joint pains that work themselves out fairly easily. It’s, quite literally, night and day.
It’s no wonder I live in a cave-like environment, with sheets on the windows blocking most of the light. Maybe I should move into an actual cave. Then I could update this quite literally under a rock.
