Tuesday, June 30, 2009

One of the Pleasures of Living in Seattle


I took these two pictures in our bedroom the other evening, probably around 8:00pm. This is sunlight, shining in the northern window of our bedroom. Yes, that's right--in the summer, the sun rises in the northeast, and sets in the northwest, having traveled about 3/4 of the way around the sky. The flip side is that in the winter, the sun never leaves the south.

2 comments:

Ian said...

I looked up the data associated with those photos. You were right (of course). You took the pictures at 8:11 pm, exactly 1 hour before the sunset on June 29. On that day the civil twilight ended 40 minutes later at 9:51 pm.

CMT said...

and then the uncivil twilight began