There's been some discussion lately about the 24 hour, or mostly 24 hour sun that we are getting now. Most of it centres around how to sleep during it, or how it is messing up the internal clocks of those who can't sleep during it. I understand, and I've gotten enough first time visitors to the arctic who start their day looking anything but refreshed after tossing and turning all night. I understand.
But I love the light. I have no circadian rhythm. It was beat out of me by my working shifts pretty much all of my adult life. I've slept during the day since I was 18 or 19. And I tell you, I love the way the landscape changes as the sun circles and dips and rises in the sky. But more than anything I love the fact that, if I want, I can go for a drive at 10:00 at night and do things. Or a walk at 2:00 am.
Friday after a late supper we did just that, went for a drive. I checked out some areas for arriving birds (and discovered I misidentified one the other day. We went out to the water lake, and Leah and Travis did a little fishing where the incoming river clears an opening in the ice.
And what could be cooler than ice fishing, stepping back on shore and doing a little biking?
Here the late evening light paints the newly blooming Purple Saxifrage with that gorgeous light of a sun low in the sky.
And here is a Canada Goose (probably the Lesser Canada Goose subspecies Branta canadensis parvipes) that I thought was a Cackling Goose. This photo was actually taken Saturday morning.
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Great photos, Clare! And ditto to all that you wrote about light. I’m sitting here at the computer, in my classroom, at 2am. As the kids say, I’ve got my days and nights upside-down. The good thing is, it doesn’t really matter! 🙂
I’m another one that loves the 24hr daylight. We’re just over 2 weeks into it now.
I love that I can actually do stuff outside when I get off work (at 11pm).
Thanks Kimberlee and Megan.
I love hikes at 2am, that light gets a little golden and the birds seem to sing just a little more.