Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/11/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doesn't sound very appealing to me at all Nathan... the winter that is. I can imagine the daily weather forecast: "Well Good Morning folks, it's 7 AM and darker than the inside of your pocket at midnight. We'll have a great big 5 hours of daylight today with the sun kissing the horizon. That'll be followed by hours and hours of gloomy dark... and we'll probably get some snow and/or cold rain." As Michael E. Bérubé says, "Carpe Luminem." He lives way up there in Maine. Jim - http://www.hemenway.com :>) Nathan Wajsman wrote: > > Jim, > > Yes, more or less true. I remember from my childhood in Ĺrhus, Denmark, > going to school in the dark and returning home in the dark at this time > of year. But of course the flip side is in the summer, when the > Scandinavians can enjoy daylight well into the evening. In the morning > it is not so great. I still have not so fond memories from my college > days, coming home from some party at, say, 2 a.m., and waking up at 5 > a.m. with a huge hangover because my room with a large, east-facing > window was by then too bright and too hot to sleep. > > My favorite Scandinavian holiday is what the Danes call Skt. Hans Eve, > or midsummer, on 23rd June, when people gather around large bonfires and > party all night. > > Nathan > > Jim Hemenway wrote: > > > Someone recently told me that in southern Scandinavia, (Oslo, Stockholm, > > Copenhagen and Helsinki) that in the winter it doesn't get light until > > after 10 AM in the morning and that the sun is gone by 3 PM... true? > > > > Jim - http://www.hemenway.com > > > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > > e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch > mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > > Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm > General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html