(Anchorage) – Here it is… nothing but longer days from here to June!
Sunrise- 10:14AM Sunset- 3:41PM Total- 5 hrs 27 mins (Corrected!)
But that’s not taking into account the local mountains. Where we live in Eagle River is smack up against the Chugach Range foothills, so we don’t get sunlight ’till afternoon.
Driving is a real nuisance at this time of year. The sun doesn’t get more than 10 degrees or so above the horizon, so if you are out driving around town at mid-day you are bound to have the sun shining directly in your face at some point. Sunglasses required.
On a more personal note, my older daughter arrived from L.A. early this morning, joining her younger sister who arrived last week. She’s been here for a few summer visits before, but this is her first taste of the Alaska winter experience.
St. John’s operates a private school (Preschool through 6th grade), and last night was the annual Christmas pageant. Has anyone seen anything cuter than a stageful of little tykes dressed as shepherds, angels, cows, sheep and Magi, singing their hearts out with unselfconcious joy? It is really one of life’s great blessings.
And now we enter the final approach to the holy Feast of the Nativity of our Lord and Saviour. I pray that any who read this will be having (or will have had) a blessed day and, more than that, a blessed season. May you also be ever more abundantly blessed not only with His gifts, but with an ever-stronger, joyful knowledge of the Giver.
