Maybe someone remember when I wrote and complained about our few hours of daylight in December. Now we have some weeks with the opposite. It never gets dark! But I don't complain this time. I like this even if it's a bit hard sometimes to get the kids to bed. Both of the photos was taken yesterday at midnight. We can't see the sun at that time where I live, but on the second photo I took the shot against the sunlight. All this has to do with the solstice and the axial tilt. If you are north of the Arctic Circle you can see the sun the whole night.
Our word for the sun is from the latin word "sol" and if you read about the solstice you can see that it has strong connections with our celebrating of Midsummer. Which I think will be my next post on the blog. A very important thing that everybody already talks about and the newspaper writes about is: What weather will there be on Friday (Midsummer Eve)??!! Because everybody wants to eat and play games outside.
Well, right now the weather forecast doesn't look so well, but they have been wrong before... Or we have to dress up with raincoats!
7 comments:
Wow Ella, that is beautiful. I can't imagine daylight at midnight, but I think I could deal with that. No daylight in Dec. would make me crazy!
Thanks for sharing!
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I cannot even imagine light ALL night! Welcome summer solstice!
At least we have today the longest day in year. I like it very much and I love summer. The weather with us is sunny and warm, so I can enjoy this long day.
Have a nice day and a beautiful Midsummer. We celebrate my husband's birthday on Friday.
I thought of you, my friend, when I wrote about the Summer Solstice today. Here's hoping the weather will be good for your upcoming celebrations - happy summer and enjoy the light!
Wow, Ella, that's AMAZING - truly the land of the midnight sun!! I remember growing up in Michigan that we had to wait so long on the 4th of July to see the fireworks because it was light till 10, but eventually it did get dark!
I had no idea! How cool is that? Here in Nebraska, it stays light for what seems a long time. And, like Patty, I also grew up in Michigan where it stayed light far into the night. But never all night long! Amazing!
Great pic at midnight, I would have to go a lot further north to see that in Canada. Just think of all the more photography you can do in the summers. Bill
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