Location Taken: Near the mouth of the Illinois River, Illinois
Time Taken: November 2012
It was the winter solstice just the other day, so the daylight hours have gotten as short as they will and are once again lengthening.
And they were just finally getting short enough for me, too!
I suppose that’s yet another of my oddities. I don’t get weirded out when sunset’s at 4:30 pm. I do it the other way and go “wait, why is it still light out, it’s after 9 pm?!” in the summers. I actually like seeing the sun vanish early…
Perhaps I should move to the arctic circle like I consider every so often, so I can enjoy darkness at noon. They always talk about the midnight sun up there to draw in the tourists, but never the noontime darkness that is its opposite…
Such a heliocentric species we are. No consideration for the night owls among us, none at all…
