Dusk upsets me. Give me a bright day, I am happy. Give me a dark night, well, I am not exactly happy, but at least I don't palpitate. Dawn is fine, in fact I love it, although it seems ages since I saw one. Dusk however, makes me very uncomfortable. When the sky is not totally dark, but the buildings silhoute against it, and the manmade lights are already on, I feel the urgent need to go into the house, switch on all the tube lights in the house and sit bathed in brightness.
Today on our way back from Landmark where the kiddo attended a quiz on Harry Potter (I'll write about it perhaps if I have more energy), it was dusk when we passed the erstwhile "downtown" of Chennai - Mount Road. The pictures don't make dusk any less depressing than reality.
An ORANGE House ! I mean...excuse me?
I remember when my youngest child was very small. If we had visitors at the house and it became dusk she would tell each of them "It's time for you to go home!" She no doubt understands the need to be in before dark also.
Posted by: Doug | 04/23/2011 at 08:25 PM
Doug, I never outgrew that feeling.
Posted by: Lakshmi | 04/23/2011 at 08:32 PM
Ha ha... first you complain about dusk, and someone has been kind enough to paint his house a BRIGHT orange, and you don't appreciate it? ;-) ;-)
Seriously, what was he/she thinking :-)
Posted by: Writerzblock.wordpress.com | 04/24/2011 at 05:10 AM
Writerzblock, I gather it is a "vaasthu"* thing. When you see any house that is in some brain scrambling colour, rest assured there lives a vaasthu freak inside.
*Vaasthu is the Indian version of Feng Shui, which has become a sort of mass hysteria of late.
Posted by: Lakshmi | 04/24/2011 at 08:58 AM
I have a really difficult time seeing at dusk. My eyes just refuse to adjust.
Posted by: leendadll | 04/26/2011 at 07:07 AM
What, you don't want the sun to go back to his momma at night, after playing all day?
Posted by: Biswa | 05/10/2011 at 06:39 AM