Winter in Michigan
Ok, January’s over and February has started. The fact still stands:
Winter in Michigan SUCKS.
Sucks, sucks, sucks. Not only for the 12 degrees I woke up to this morning, but the $200 heating bills, and the absolute lack of daylight.
There is about 4-5 hours of usable daylight for taking photographs everyday. Ok, generally it’s less than that. It’s cloudy almost every day, making daylight ridiculously hard to come by. It also doesn’t help that our kitchen is on the east side of the house and the early morning sun is mostly clouds.
I can’t take a damned food photograph for the life of me after about 11:30am, and that’s when I’ve been up and moving enough to cook.
It also doesn’t help that the kitchen, no matter how ridiculously nice it is, is pretty dark. I found some under cabinet lights when I was at IKEA a few months ago and finally got them installed this past weekend.
I can’t tell you how much the lights have helped cooking in the last couple days. I guess I never realized how much I needed more light in the kitchen until I started trying to take pictures of the foods I made and now I’m considering getting more lights for under every cupboard.
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1 February 2010 at 13:28
didn’t you say how much you liked winter? ;-) I agree about not having enough light, the cold and photographing can suck.
Just you wait. It’s cold and non-snowy now, but in April it’ll storm once more.
1 February 2010 at 13:31
I like when it snows and it’s ridiculously pretty, but not when it’s crappy and I can’t take good pictures! :)
Ohhh storms! Yayyy!
2 February 2010 at 22:59
Michigan winters can indeed be quite unpleasant! I live in NYC now and it’s so much warmer and way less snowy! Your lentil stew in the above post looks fab!
2 February 2010 at 23:44
Oh I’m so jealous Caronae! NYC is amazing all year long! Thanks