The sun came back...

[BrianW]

...and looked remarkably similar to the way it left.

Here was last week...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/BrianW/North%20Slope/januarysunrise.jpg

and back in November, when it disappeared for 2 months...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v136/BrianW/North%20Slope/sunset.jpg

Bit of a moral booster though.

[jack grebe]

I can't imagine not seeing the sun for 2 months:eek:

[geeman]

I can.When I was in Greenland about this time of year roughly it was dark, no sun.The last few days we were there it started getting lighter.Was very strange getting up in the dark and going to bed in the dark.

[Phillip Allen]

I can't imagine not seeing the sun for 2 months:eek:


I can...boomer patrol

[Paul Girouard]

I can...boomer patrol


That's one reason bubbleheads are different:D There are more reasons as well:rolleyes: :D

[Flying Orca]

I can't imagine not seeing the sun for 2 months:eek:

Growing up in Resolute it would be gone for three months. I found summer more disconcerting, though, especially after I started drinking. See, we'd cover all the windows to get away from the light... then you'd stumble out for a pee at beer'o'clock in the morning and whoa, the sun's UP... in the NORTH...

[boylesboats]

The Sun is always there.... Why you do feel like it went away?

[BrianW]

The Sun is always there...

I wish you'd mentioned that before the virgin sacrifices.

[paladin]

and just how many virgins did ya have to sacrifice.......:D

[BrianW]

and just how many virgins did ya have to sacrifice.......:D

Can't be sure...

We'd always had our doubts as to their purity, but since the sun has always come back, we figured they must have been telling the truth.

Now with this revelation, we just can't know.

;)

[ishmael]

The days have been getting longer here nigh on a month. It's been such a weird winter. It's been dry, and didn't get terribly cold until a couple weeks ago. Here it is the end of January, which always seems a turning point. Gotta wonder if the devil will have his due before this one is out.

The longer days help the mood, even if it is cold. It's light until around five, now! Yipee!

I actually don't mind the darkness of winter. Though I've never been without the sun, I think I'd do just fine. Before the advent of electric light it must have been a tad more challenging.

It's no wonder so many of our ancestors worshipped the sun.