The extra summer sunshine being tough makes sense to me. Many years ago, I was in Stockholm for a conference during the first week of July. I woke up with a start every morning thinking I had overslept because the sunshine was streaming in my window. But in fact, it was still really early in the morning and I had hours more to sleep
Thanks for writing about this. As someone who follows your photos on Flickr, the place you live looks amazing, but brings up questions of what it's like to actually live there. It hadn't occurred to me that all the light in the summer would be problematic, but sure, how do you sleep with twentyfour hour daylight? Blackout curtains i guess. And why do you miss the stars? Do they not shine through at northern latitudes? Very interesting Laura, thank you for your photos and descriptive experience.
thanks! in the summer I miss seeing the stars, because of the 24-hour daylight -- it's too bright to see stars from late april/early may until late august or so...
The extra summer sunshine being tough makes sense to me. Many years ago, I was in Stockholm for a conference during the first week of July. I woke up with a start every morning thinking I had overslept because the sunshine was streaming in my window. But in fact, it was still really early in the morning and I had hours more to sleep
Thanks for writing about this. As someone who follows your photos on Flickr, the place you live looks amazing, but brings up questions of what it's like to actually live there. It hadn't occurred to me that all the light in the summer would be problematic, but sure, how do you sleep with twentyfour hour daylight? Blackout curtains i guess. And why do you miss the stars? Do they not shine through at northern latitudes? Very interesting Laura, thank you for your photos and descriptive experience.
thanks! in the summer I miss seeing the stars, because of the 24-hour daylight -- it's too bright to see stars from late april/early may until late august or so...
Sounds just beautiful!
thanks -- I'm not sure I can do it justice, it's just so special.
Laura, my elder brother's birthday is also on the Winter solstice
so cool!
Also: happy (belated) Thanksgiving!