Having days slowly get shorter and colder is not a very positive experience. Now we can look forward with some positive hope.
The winter solstice has been marked for a long time as primitive people were aware of what was taking place and could name the date when the day was shortest and the night was longest.
Since I spent winters above the Arctic circle, I experienced nights that were six weeks long. that's right. The sun never rose above the horizon for six weeks. Some people were devastated by this situation. It didn't bother me at all.
So where I live the sun rose at 8:43 AM and set at 4:22 PM which gives us 7 hours and 39 minutes of sunshine.
We have lots of snow cover and have had sub zero C weather for about 4 weeks.
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| The old snow stick with 15 cm or 6 in. of snow |
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| That's right I skied today |
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| The creek is well covered with ice and snow |
