So this is what the darkest day of the year looks like

[celamity]

First there were two hours of early twilight, the kind where night is still hanging out in the north and there is a pale glow in the south. Then there were 3 hours of regular twilight between 10 am and 1 pm, where night is clinging to the far north (I did't get a chance to see if the edge of earth's shadow became visible or not) and it feels a bit closer to day, with a very deep blueness. It never got around to rosy dawn twilight, and now we're almost halfway through the second two hours of early (I guess it's called late on this end) twilight.

Sun returns in roughly a month. In some ways I am missing it more and in some ways I am missing it less than I originally anticipated.