The sun returned to Arctic Bay today, peeking over the horizon about 10 minutes before noon. It was kind of wild to see sunlight on walls again. From now until the beginning of May we’ll get about 20 minutes more of the sun every day. I especially love the the three months between 24 hour sun and 24 hour sunless days. The light changes every day and the landscape shifts and changes and shadows grow and shrink as the sun creeps higher in the sky.
I don’t mind the dark season, not at all. It flies by, the sky is painted with a subtle beauty in blues and blacks. And the stars are brighter and closer than even in the minds landscape.
But it is wonderful to see the sun’s return. It paints the land in ever changing tones.
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Twenty minutes more a day!! I’m feeling the couple more we’re getting every day now–I can’t imagine what it must feel like to go through that change so fast. I’ve got to try it sometime.
What a great photograph. Love that noon sunrise. It’s really so beautiful.
Mind you don’t get sunburnt mate!
How strange, the image doesn’t show up on my Firefox browser in Mac OS X, but it does in my Safari browser.
I’m glad that someone commented about the image, prompting me to switch browsers to see it, because it really is bleakly lovely. Welcome back to the light of day! 🙂
*WOW* It’s alot different from Fort Providence Hey Clare!
Pam – it works out to almost 20 minutes a day. We go from no sun on February 5th to 12 hours on March 21. It does make for fantastic changing scenery.
RD- thanks, I love the way it is already lighting up the house.
Dunc – Thanks, strangely enough up here is the only place I’ve ever been sunburned and frostbit at the same time.
Beth – I don’t know why that would be. I compose in Firefox and the pictures show up on mine. One time all my pictures in Firefox wouldn’t load and I eventually figued out that the preferences had somehow changed. Do any photos from my blog show up?
Sabrina!- Good to hear from you. Yes different and similar also. Just like Ft P. there are a lot of friendly people. A few less trees though. Hows things in the Deh Cho?
I know I’m late, but I started working my way through your archives to catch up and just now reached this post. What must be interesting is to have the sun not rise, but roll along the horizon rather like a beluga taking a breath. I’d love it. I’ve lived in 8 states here in the US now in probably 25 locations, and when people ask my where my favorite place is, I always answer “the next one”.