THE DARK AGES

We’re about to enter the dark ages. Fall. I don’t like Fall. Of the four seasons, it’s my least favorite.

Summer’s over, winter is coming, daylight is retreating and darkness is growing. Even the ‘fall colors’ are really dying leaves. The leaves have done their job, about to be jettisoned for worm food. The bright colors are annual flags of surrender.

The earth’s tilt in combination with our yearly journey around the sun rob the Northern hemisphere of sunlight. In Seattle, we get nearly 16 hours of sunlight in June, yet that will shrink to about 8 hours in the next few weeks.

Depressing graph.  The day will shorten by nearly 2 more hours and the rain is going to rachet up.

The day will be halved. When you work 9 to 10 hour days, 8 hours of sunlight just isn’t enough. As beautiful as Seattle is during the rest of the year, the next couple of months will be tough.