Winter Darkness

In this post I am going to write about the dark winters up here in the interior of Alaska. The shortest day is December 21st, Winter Solstice. Fairbanks actually holds a Winter Solstice Festival. On winter solstice we experience 3 hours and 43 minutes of daylight. The good news is that after Winter Solstice we gain daylight.

I took the following photo of the sunset on December 30th at 3:43 PM.




From the exact same spot I took this photo looking to the North. Wasn't the Blue Moon Awesome?! The pinkish hue on the trees is just beautiful. This picture is OK but it doesn't depict exactly how beautiful it was.



This Next photo is of Bob buying fireworks on New years Eve. By looking at how dark it is it appears we waited until the last minute. This one was taken at 5:30pm!




We are gaining light fast now. This believe it or not tends to be uplifting for us, at least until we get a cold snap of temperatures of -40! I will talk about that in another post.

Until next time, take care.