Dark days

Dec. 12th, 2006 04:31 pm
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Has anybody else noticed that the days are getting markedly shorter? (Well, except of course for those of you living where the days are getting noticeably longer instead.) Hope this changes soon, as the days are pretty much too damned short around here these days, these days.

Signed,

Palely Loitering

Date: 2006-12-12 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] del-c.livejournal.com
Your shortest day at latitude 47 is about eight and a half hours. Ours at latitude 51 is seven hours forty five minutes.

And that's the "soft south": spare a thought for [livejournal.com profile] autopope and [livejournal.com profile] feorag up in Edinburgh, with barely more than six hours!



Date: 2006-12-12 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
I did spare a thought for the Scots when I wrote my whinge post, but since [livejournal.com profile] surliminal moved to the soft south (nice phrase!), I don't think anybody on my Friends list is that far north anymore. Still, it's true that even you Reading folks have it worse than we do. Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better!

Date: 2006-12-12 09:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com
Pikers. My home town is at 59 degrees 19 minutes. Britain's almost all the soft south when viewed from Sweden. Hell, Edinburgh is farther south than the soft southern town of Gothenburg. And as it is, I'm from the soft south as Sweden goes -- I'm sure the folks up in Boden could tell me a thing or two about dark days.

Date: 2006-12-12 10:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Well, duh, I'd forgotten my benighted (ho ho ho) Friends in Sweden, [livejournal.com profile] mrhedgehog and [livejournal.com profile] jophan. But at least they're frozen, which I'm sure makes it seem less dark.

Date: 2006-12-13 05:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kate-schaefer.livejournal.com
Last time I talked to my mother-in-law in the frozen north (Fairbanks, and I'm not looking up just how far north it is; far enough, okay?), she said they were down to about 4 hours of daylight, but the moon was full. Oh, I said foolishly, is it up in the day or the night? All the time, she said.

Right. Right. The moon is up all the time in the big dark, and it's really amazing when it's full. I saw it just last December. It's somehow more surprising, more amazing, than the long daylight of the summer, because people talk about that long daylight, they tell you about the midnight sun, but they don't much talk about the long moonlight, the way the moon just moves circularly around the sky's room in the winter.

There are compensations for the far north. They aren't enough to make me want to live there, but there they are, strange, glittering, beautiful, cold.

Date: 2006-12-13 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Beautiful! Thanks for that. I'm once again reminded of the Elves in The Silmarillion, except all they had was starlight, not even the moon.

Date: 2006-12-12 09:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] akirlu.livejournal.com
The wheel will turn soon. Since it was clear out as I was waiting at Evergreen Point, I was actually thinking it was so much better than yesterday, when it really was just grim, grim, and grim again.

Date: 2006-12-12 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
It's true, it seemed lighter today, but that will end too soon now. Even yesterday there was a spot or two of sunshine. (Okay, just one spot, right after a huge cloudburst and flash flood.)

Date: 2006-12-13 12:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com
The solstice is at 4:22pm (local time) Dec. 21 this year. So yeah, the days will be getting longer. Whether they'll be getting brighter is a good question, but I'm spending the first 3 weeks of Dec (3-24)in Arizona.

MKK

Date: 2006-12-13 12:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Well, you've got the right idea, that's for sure. I'm not heading to Sunnyland until the family goes to Costa Rica in late March. By then, the Big Darkness will be over.

Wait a second, doesn't that mean you're in Arizona right now?

Date: 2006-12-13 12:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marykaykare.livejournal.com
No it means I'm an idiot. Jan 3-24, not Dec. Sheesh.

MKK

Date: 2006-12-13 12:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] randy-byers.livejournal.com
Okay, I thought I'd really lost the plot there for a minute! Anyway, January is the perfect time for an escape to Sunnyland, I think, although some argue for February.

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