It's officially Winter Solstice! The darkest day of the year! Harrogate is surprisingly far north - we are at 53 degrees latitude. In comparison, Washington, DC is only 38 degrees. This means that our days in summer are long (think sunset at 9 pm) and our days in winter are very short (think less than 6 hours a day of sunlight!). Combine these short days with non-stop rain and clouds - and it can be a little dreary here. What I did not take a photo of is our "Happy Lamp" - these are issued by the base to try and address some of the natural Seasonal Affect Disorder that is pretty rampant here. We just finally turned ours on last week and we're both feeling a bit more happy as a result. YAY!
That said - today is a day of celebration because tomorrow the days will become progressively longer and we'll be a bit closer to spring.
Right now, the sun is rising around 9 am and setting around 3:30 pm. Sometimes that is hard to grasp how dark and how early, so I thought I would share a few looks out our window over the past week.
This is the view from our bedroom at about 8:45 am:
This is the view from my office around 3:30 that same day. Crazy dark, right?
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