New years day

good morning , how was your sunset today
Photos taken at 3 pm new years day.

November 2nd

November 2nd.

The almanac in the paper today says that the sun rises at 8 45 am and sets at 5 30 ish, that means it nearly dark when I get home and its still trying to get light on the way to work. I know its close to the same amount of light we had last week. but we droped daylight savings with week. and winter is here.

there is 7 weeks till the shortest day and daylight is still dropping at 7 minutes a day, so we have 14 weeks to the the light back to where it is now. the temp dropped this week rather suddenly. it was about 5 this morning and some places talking with - signs.

BUT. I got a whole bunch done today regardless of the dark. did a dump run after work. plugged in the Christmas lights to make sure they are working.( i might have to go buy some more. they are not as green as they used to be , they are looking white.) had dinner and got my homework assignment done all before 7 30. so at 8 I went to dance class.

learning to dance is soooo much fun. American tango 2. You have to go out and do stuff regardless of the weather, otherwise it becomes a bitch real fast. Winter comes whether we like it or not.

Crashing Ice

 the ice was thundering past today
 Looking at it too much was enough to make to dizzy.

Spring

This was taken march 26 , since then  the city has doe some snow removal, but there is still a large pile of snow around. spring is late this year, we usually get temp above freezing sometime in march. March 31 has come and gone, fortunately  last Friday things started to drip.

 now the reason you get to hear about this is that Mother has requested another saga for spring and  breakup. ( and i always do what mother says)
 My front yard. a good 18 inches of snow, that needs to disappear really fast.   the calender say that Fairbanks will be green by  May 10  if it s late, and it will be this year, is 36 days away. Let me see what mother nature can do in 36 days.
 On Friday after a day of warming  the snow starts to turn black. i heard on the radio the other day that" spring is when the snow turns black,  the pot holes get really large, and your car is filthy." all three conditions have been met.
 daylight progresses at the rate of 7 minutes a day we now  have 14 hours of daylight. The moon is out, if I could only hold the camera still. And the northern light's become hidden. It needs to be dark before you can see them.  so now for a fast melt -- there will be flooding somewhere. it supposed to be 40 tomorrow( 5 c)