It’s always surprising how drastically the days increase in length. Of course, it’s easier to see this I guess when you’ve had to work lots of overtime and you get used to not seeing the sun when you leave work and suddenly you leave work and there’s lots of sun.
But even without that frame of reference, it’s getting amazing. It’s staying bright outside until nearly 9:00 now, and even then you look outside and the sky’s not black yet. Deep purple, but not black.
And that also brings up another interesting point. You ever notice that the longest day of the year tends to be around June 21 (it changes a bit due to leap year and the like)? Why is it that the hottest month is then August? Likewise, the shortest day is in December; but the coldest month is usually February. It’s like the temperatures are two months behind the sun or something.
Yeah, yeah…I know, it’s like inertia. It takes a while to get going and then it takes a while to slow down again. But I think it’s still just one more weird thing about the world that makes living in it so interesting!
