It’s seven and the sun is only slowly setting. Every year, at probably around this exact point, I’m surprised again by how long the days get. How much changes with all that light! It’s quite the swing from winter, when you’re indoors anyway thanks to the cold, and daylight gets down to 10 hrs—wake up in darkness, dark before dinner. Suddenly now, you wake in the middle of the night and grey light is already creeping through cracks in the curtains. Mildly disorienting… I used to be more tuned to the daylength differences when, for half the year, May through October, I was up at five every Saturday for the farmers’ market. Still, awake around dawn or not, there’s always a particular time in spring and fall when the changes hit. Anyhow, right now, this is great for fieldwork—more hours in the day!
