Land of the Midnight Sun..pics...

Since I was still up anyway, I took some Solstice pics last night. These were all taken at midnight in my yard without a flash and are unedited except for resizing.
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Heyoka being a doofus in the trees. Doofus is what he does best! This is my front yard.

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The half stained shop. That was as far as Stuart got before he had to go back to camp.
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My driveway...shows some of the extensive "Fort Knox" husky proof fencing too!
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As close as we get to a sunset this time of year. Officially we get 19 hours of true daylight and 5 of "civil twilight". It is rarely dark enough in the house to require flipping a light on and never dim enought to need a flashlight or the yardlights on outside.
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My little shack. There's just no way to get a picture of it without a few dogs in the frame!

"Home, Sweet Home!" :)

Gotta Love It! ;)

MID-nite, huh?
Iffin you say so!
;)

Lovely photos. I don't know how any of you manage to sleep.

Bad enough here in Calgary where it gets dark at 11 and is light again by 4 am right now.

That is so cool!! I've never seen anything like that before! Thanks for posting these! :D

That's pretty cool...It would be weird to see though lol

midnight!!...... coool!!.... i would love to see that someday!!

adn dogs in the frame, that´s just the sweetest extra in every pic.... and the more the merrier :D

It's wonderful isn't it? I'm enjoying the long days on summer here in Alaska! We went into Canada yesterday and I thought of you. Where do you live again? We will be heading into Whitehorse sometime soon.

Ash

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Originally Posted by Aspen and Misty

It's wonderful isn't it? I'm enjoying the long days on summer here in Alaska! We went into Canada yesterday and I thought of you. Where do you live again? We will be heading into Whitehorse sometime soon.

Ash

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Just south of Whitehorse(techinically within the city limits, but the limits are HUGE). You come in on the other side of town when driving in from Haines.

I was in Russia during the White Nights. It never got truly dark the whole time I was there. The translator working with my group said that their winter days are extremely short, but people get used to it and learn to make the most of the long summer days. I'm with huskymom, dogs in every frame works for me. :D

I had little idea, thanks for the education!

Cool beans. And to think I was excited that it was just getting dark at 8:30pm last night. :D

That is so amazing to me. I don't know if I could adjust to all daylight or all darkness.

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Originally Posted by Glacier

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...sticehouse.jpg
My little shack. There's just no way to get a picture of it without a few dogs in the frame!

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And if there were no dogs in the frame, I would be asking where they were :D

WOW - so much light. Is it hard to sleep? You have not always lived up there have you? You were used to NIGHT in summer, weren't you?

You have me wondering Captain....there must be the same (but opposite time) conditions somewhere at your end of the world as well?

Does it occur in Australia? If not...how far south do you have to go to experience midnight sun?

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Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

You have me wondering Captain....there must be the same (but opposite time) conditions somewhere at your end of the world as well?

Does it occur in Australia? If not...how far south do you have to go to experience midnight sun?

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You have to go to Antartica to experience that down here in the Southern Hemisphere, but we have daylight saving here. So between October - March we have one hour extra of light, and April - September we have one hour less as we turn the clocks back or forward.
Of course, if you make a mistake and turn the clock backward instead of forward, you end up being 2 hours late for work!!!

Thanks for asking :D