Land of the Midnight Sun..pics...

[BC_MoM]

You must have a low electricity bill!

[cloverfdx]

That is amazing Tamara . It is currently 5.40PM and just starting to get dark here .

[karyn674]

Two days ago (21st June) was the longest day of summer, it became dark at about 9pm.

When I was in Germany in June it used to get dark at about 11 and that was so strange for me. Its like you don't feel like going to sleep cos it feels like its still very early!

Imagine if I lived in North canada.......I'll get so exauseted!!!

[Laura's Babies]

We have inside closeable shutters on the boat that we can close and it makes it completely dark in the bedrooms because all hours day and nigh, the ones off watch are sleeping. That is what I would have to have there where you live but I think I would love it as I am a night person and really don't have any energy until after 5pm. I have been known to do my houseleeping after dark and sit up sewing all night.

[ramanth]

Very neat!

[Glacier]

You must have a low electricity bill!

LOL, you'd think so, wouldn't you!? But the price of electricity is stupid up here and I run five freezers--one for human food and four for the dogs' food! The bill is actually lower in the winter when I can unplug all the freezers!

[Lobodeb]

As always, Tamara, your photos are breathtaking!

[anna_66]

The bill is actually lower in the winter when I can unplug all the freezers!

I find that amazing!

I love your pictures

I had a dream last night I was coming to visit you Tamara...oooohhh it was so cold

[Randi]

Love your pictures! It takes forever to get dark here too, about 9PM it's getting a bit darker, but it doesn't get REAL dark during the night. I'd prefer to live a place where it goes from light to dark in half an hour.

In Spain it went from light to pitch black in about 10 - 15 min.

[cyber-sibes]

Did it take you very long to adjust to the seasonal changes? Do you have to force yurself to go tobed anyway?
How long are you without sun in the winter? It must be rough when the sun doesn't shine at all.

[Kirsten]

Wow, hard to believe those were taken at midnight! Some days here are darker than your nights! LOL

It's very special!

Kirsten

[Glacier]

Did it take you very long to adjust to the seasonal changes? Do you have to force yurself to go tobed anyway?
How long are you without sun in the winter? It must be rough when the sun doesn't shine at all.

The first winter up here almost killed me. I would never advise anyone to move here in January! That was a bad idea! I use a special lamp all winter that mimics sunlight. I have sleep issues and even in the winter I have to force myself to go to bed. We have blackout blinds in the bedroom so it is quite dim in there--except when Boots plays with the blinds and makes them roll back up. He thinks that's great fun.

We don't get total darkness in the winter. You have to go a bit farther north for that. We get about four hours of light in the shortest days. The sun doesn't get very high though and it's often more like late afternoon light. I rarely need sunglasses in the winter months, until March anyway.

[Killearn Kitties]

Good grief! It doesn't become completely dark here in midsummer, in that there is still a light in the sky, but by midnight you would not be able to read by it anymore. The light in these pictures is amazing.

[jennielynn1970]

I had lived in Sweden, and it would only get kind of purple-ish around 2am in the summer, that was it. It never got completely dark, and I loved it!! Winter, now that sucked, big time! We'd get maybe 2-4hrs of semi-light, and it was the most depressing thing in the world. I lived outside of Stockholm, so it wasn't even that far up in Sweden, just like 1/3 of the way up from the bottom. Can't even imagine it all the way up where the Lapps live!