In these days, just around the solstice, the sun slides down the sky slowly, so slowly. At this latitude, 50°North, it reaches its highest point at about 1:30 PM, not directly overhead, but at about 64° above the horizon. And sunset comes at 9:30 or thereabouts, so it takes 8 hours to drop those 60°.
At 8:30, the sun is just under 8° over the horizon. And its light is orange. I wandered in the pre-sunset dusk at Oyster Bay.
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| Hawthorn, half green, half red, side-lit. 8:27 PM. |
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| View from the far side, looking south. The pilings and purple martin nest boxes, normally a dingy grey, look warm in this light. 8:31. |
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| Pilings, eagle, rocks. Looking from the breakwater east across Georgia Strait. 8:32. |
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| New pickleweed plants and sand ripples, inside the breakwater. 8:38 PM. |
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| 8:54. The sun no longer reaches this area of the shore, but there's still a reflected mauve light from the sky. Daisies and logs. |
