©JAL, November 2007, August 2006
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Light found at walkway at Disney World's Colorado Springs Resort. I have the tale of our visit in 2006, and a smaller version of this image placed in context. From journal entry December 1, 2007: "Dead of Night" What a strange night! Julia and I were deeply engrossed in the Himalayas, as Michael Palin was our guide. He had gotten to the Mt. Everest base camp, and was preparing to go on, when all of a sudden the TV and everything else turned black. No thunderstorm caused the power outage, it was quietly raining outside. But it had been constantly raining for hours, a rare thing in Yuma. The UPS box beeped intermediately as it kept my computer powered until I could do a normal shut off. Then all was black and silent, except for the quietly falling rain. I put on extra socks and a long sleeved coat, as I knew the house would soon be getting cold, without any electrically powered heating to warm it. I thought with amusement of the Photo Friday theme 'Dead of Night', and thought, this is as 'dead' as it gets. But of course, nothing except the dead was 'dead'. I thought of the ancient Egyptian respect for the sun, and realized more fully why they had such. In those days, everything pretty much shut down at night, unless you had a fire or a candle. They did not know about the hidden power in the thunder, the electricity which can through technology make its own light.
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