End of the day ...
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| 4:40 PM, last week. A few minutes after sundown. |
And tomorrow, the days start to stretch again. Today, we have 8 hours and 4 minutes of sunshine. Well, not actually sunshine; light behind the clouds. It's BC, after all. Over on the mainland, it's snowing. But tomorrow, we'll have a whole extra minute of daylight. Yay!
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El 21 de diciembre; el solsticio invernal. La foto la saqué unos cuantos minutos después de la puesta del sol, a las 4:40 de la tarde. Hoy, se pone a las 4:17.
Hoy tenemos 8 horas, 4 minutos de sol. Miento: no hay sol; tenemos las 8 horas de luz tras las nubes. Estamos en Colombia Británica, a fin de cuentas. Y al otro lado del agua está nevando. Pero para mañana, los días se alargan, y tendremos un minuto entero más de luz de día. ¡Bravo!
Oh this beautiful photo reminds me of why Roger and I left Port Townsend, WA. We were so unaccustomed to the winter light there, or lack thereof. The sun rising so late and setting so early was such a surprise to us. It never occurred to us to consider latitude when we moved north, but we learned that lesson. You remind me that it is so beautiful there, I wish we could have stayed.
ReplyDeleteIt takes some getting used to, if you didn't grow up with it. The flip side is that summer days go on forever.
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