Candlelight on a July night

We lost electricity for several hours last night and had to do with candlelight at the dining table. Very different than the usual evening with the hum of lights and fans and tv's and computers and refrigerators. Didn't take long for Diane to go off to bed - darkness is great for sleeping, isn't it? I finished a book (The Reader by Bernhard Schlink - it's excellent, as is the movie), drove around the neighborhood (to see how extensive the outage was), took some photos (see above for one example), and eventually turned off what I remembered was on, and went to bed. Guess what - thirty minutes later I was suddenly awake again with the house coming back on - fans and coolers and lights, all those accepted and welcome additions to our modern lives. Still, the candlelight was enchanting, even if for just a little bit. It's Monochrome Weekly time and more from around the world can be found here.