Happy Solstice!

Winter solstice is pretty much a non event for most people...shortest day of the year? Bring on the party hats, right? But when you live in the subarctic regions, it means that you have FINALLY reached the point where the days can't get any shorter and the daylight pendulum will swing the other way.

I took some pictures to illustrate the subarctic "day" here. This was the view from the back porch when the sun came up at 10:59 am:



Here is 12:49 pm, which is solar noon, the time of day at which the sun reaches the highest elevation in the sky; as you can see, not much difference between dawn and noon!

And lastly, I missed sunset at 2:49 pm with an ill timed nap with the baby, so I instead took a picture of the end of civil twilight. This was taken at 3:26 pm.


And now as I write this 3:40 something, it is full dark outside. No wonder we're all hibernating up here!