I know I've been a bad blogger, and you can throw in bad correspondent in email as well. If you are one of my friends awaiting email; no I'm not upset with you. I just have no desire to sit at the computer pounding away at the keys. Right now, anyway. It will change. Nothing's wrong, just the desire has temporarily drained from me.
There is a lot to write about, and things to do. But right now, they too can wait. For it is the Vernal Equinox today. The official start of the light season, for for here on in we will be getting more sun than you. Well, except for the couple of hundred souls who live further north here in North America, and perhaps a few thousand elsewhere. But for the next six months, we'll see the sun longer than everyone who lives south of here. In six short weeks the sun will not set for three months, in perhaps four months it will pretty much be light enough out to see well without lights 24 hours a day.
This time always passes so quickly, there is so much to try and cram into such a short season. While the rest of the nature blogging world is posting their stories of arriving blue birds and singing robins our first migrants are still a month and a half away from here. Apart from the pay cheques, a part of me is almost forlorn about a couple of job possibilities. It would be fantastic to have no clock to tie me down this season.
But come what may we will make the most of it. Its the equinox, filled with the promise of light. In celebration I built a snow tunnel with my son. My first in a long long time.
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I celebrated the Equinox by NOT doing a stitch of work around the house… It is indeed a good time of the year we’re entering now!
I would be celebrating too! I even feel giddy down here when we get longer days! The sun is just a wonderful thing!
I still think it’s cool that you guys get 24h sunlight! One day I would like to experience all night day…hehe. (I’ll stay up all night or something).
Happy Spring! Do what you feel in your heart. Snow tunnels take precedence over many other things!! Time spent with your son is immeasurable. ~karen
I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who has a habit of letting email correspondence lapse for periods. I keep making resolutions that I’ll keep more on top of it, and I keep breaking them.
How quickly you move from no sun at all to sun all day! Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago you were celebrating the first post-winter sunrise?
The return of the light makes one appreciate it all the more.
That sounds like a good way to celebrate allmycke. Actually I celebrate like that quite often.
The 24 hour light is quite amazing. I love that you can do whatever, no matter what time it is Melodie.
Thanks Karen. Still work to be done on the tunnel.
It changes very quickly Seabrooke. We get an average of about 20 minutes more (or less in the fall) of sun each day. An hour every three days or so. Six weeks in between the suns first sunrise and Equinox. Ditto between Equinox and 24 hour sun, although its is light for 24 hours earlier than that, due to the sun’s proximity to the horizon.
It does Bryan and Vikki, it sure does.