It’s all downhill from here, folks. Today is the longest day of the year, with us having the official sunrise at 4:27 a.m. and 10:09 p.m. the official sunset, here in Glasgow. That gives us a whole 17:42 of the sun above the horizon, and 6:18 of “dark.” Now, ponder that for a moment. How long after the sun goes down does it take to really get dark? D. looked out the window last night at close to midnight, and it was still reasonably light, off to the northwest. So, figure we have a couple of hours of true dark, here. (The picture shown to the left was taken at 9:53 p.m., and the cars don’t even have their headlights on!)
When we considered coming home for the summer, this day was the day we didn’t want to miss out experiencing, as we did last year. So, we delayed our return until late August (we have yet to buy the tickets). Theoretically, this day pays for all of the miserably dark, cold, awful days of Winter, particularly that day towards the end of December when we have the reverse of this: the sun barely able to lift itself over the horizon for a meager six and a half hours, with eyes straining to read, and ourselves struggling to want to get out of bed.
THEORETICALLY, we said. It’s been raining for the last week and sprinkled off and on today, so despite it being light… it’s not like it makes a difference. Typical Glasgow.
Tonight’s West End Festival offerings at the University Chapel include a performance of the Fauré Requiem by candlelight, starting at 9:30. We had planned to go, but we may just try to watch it on the chapel webcam. (We’re still recovering from yesterday’s seven hours of Bach.)
– D & T
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.
Did you check out the Glasgow Mela in Kelvingrove Park today? It was pretty cool despite the sub-par weather. Only in Scotland would an Asian festival have highland dancers.
Ooo–Faure by candlelight–that would be a delicious way to kick off the summer!
Wow! Very cool.
paz
After seven years in Scotland (where I thought that the longest summer day is long enough), I'm still amazed how much longer the days are here in Estonia 🙂
On the summer solstice day, the sun rose at 4am and set at 10.45 pm. :)s