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.

Comments

[celticsuncat.livejournal.com]

It's a long time to go without sun, but you describe it so prettily that I want to see it...

[celamity.livejournal.com]

Well, you get a shot at it for about 10 minutes twice daily at your latitude :)

[carida-46.livejournal.com]

;-) well, you have someone to share the dark with now.....

[celticsuncat.livejournal.com]

When it's windy enough to blow the smog away and I can get out of the bowl-like valley I live in...

It's kind of cool living so close the the mountains and having one across the street from us, but we get only the vaguest sense of sunrises & sunsets. There's light, and it lasts most of the day, and then it's gone. The moon we can usually see very well, though, and it's pretty neat to watch it rise over the mountains. :)