Comments on: Dark days

By: MollyNH

MollyNH — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 20:57:22 +0000

Ran across a blog of a UK guy now living in Sweden in a town about half way up the peninsula. Says the sun rises at 940 am & sets about 220 pm, he posts pictures, hourly ones in fact so you can see the progression, interesting stuff. Says hes gotten used to it.

By: Gerard vanderleun

Gerard vanderleun — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 16:06:31 +0000

I listened to that Youtube video for about three minutes and now I have to go to the bathroom.

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 08:16:38 +0000

Ben David,

I very much enjoyed it. Redemption for our times indeed!

Thanks. 😀

By: Ben David

Ben David — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 07:57:50 +0000

Forget all the other animated Xmas stories – this is a real tale of redemption for our times:

https://vimeo.com/246983302

By: Bryan Lovely

Bryan Lovely — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 06:53:56 +0000

I grew up in Anchorage.

Y’all got nuthin’.

🙂

By: Gringo

Gringo — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 05:49:42 +0000

Some of my New England winter memories are timed with leaving and coming back home in my 20s. HItching to work for first shift, I recall the pink edge of the horizon in a winter sunrise. Hitching back from the library around midnight, the stark beauty of the starlit sky, with occasional clouds, juxtaposed against the snow on the ground, impressed me every time I saw it. One advantage of hitching was that in the process I spent a certain amount of time outside walking- though I didn’t see it that way at the time.

That snowy river video reminds me of the stream – though it was named a river (and apparently wider than the one in the video)- that flowed by my childhood home. It also curved to the left when viewed from our property.

By: Julie near Chicago

Julie near Chicago — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 03:25:44 +0000

Twilight and dusk … the finest part of every day.

Sunset is beautiful, when the day departs behind the flamboyant banners of the Sun;

But I prefer the quiet solitude that arrives when the banners, those gorgeous distractions, go unseen,

And the shadow of twilight approaches, to enfold me in the mystery and serenity of dusk.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:28:10 +0000

DNW, those are a precious thirty minutes. To seek out those times is a good thing.

It doesn’t seem as if the light level in that video changes at all over 3 hours. That’s kind of disappointing. I like the sound of the brook very much. But it’s probably just a loop.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 23:25:47 +0000

Nothing wrong with hibernation.

By: DNW

DNW — Thu, 05 Dec 2019 22:46:23 +0000

One of the pleasant things about the western edge of the northern eastern time zone, is the extended dusk. Even in the late fall.

Not to get too sappy about it, but on occasion, if the weather clears, and if at sunset you are in the right environs with the right, say Tudor or similar domestic style architecture, and fir trees and snow on the ground, you will witness a sky and town-scape scene reminiscent of those 19th century German romantic landscape paintings. It can be downright beautiful. Almost, awe inspiring …

For about 30 minutes.