i miss you, midnight sun

ok, so we don't actually have midnight sun here, but we are far enough north that for a few interesting months, the sun came up at 4 and it was light till almost 23:00. this was sometimes annoying because i would forget to go to bed, but it was also cool because, as my friend Kelly pointed out, you wake up at 4 and realise you still have a LONG time before you have to get up. :-)

this amazing phenomenon only lasted a few weeks though, and when i returned from cincinnati a few weeks ago, our extended hours of daylight were already growing ever shorter. boo...in fact, double boo, because this just means we are slowly heading back to the time of year when we get about seven hours of daylight...