Land of the Midnight Sun..pics...

**cyber-sibes** · 06-25-2007, 12:20 PM

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** · 06-25-2007, 03:32 PM

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

It's very special!

Kirsten

**Glacier** · 06-25-2007, 05:59 PM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 06-25-2007, 06:41 PM

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** · 06-25-2007, 06:45 PM

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!

**Glacier** · 06-25-2007, 06:54 PM

Originally Posted by jenn_librarian

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!

Where I live is just a tiny bit higher than Stockholm in latitude so it's probably very similar light conditions.