Finally, the 3567 days of January have passed!
I saw the photo above on Facebook on 22 January. In fact, I shared it on my personal Facebook feed.
Making it through those ten darker than dark weeks has been a slog.
It feels like a moral victory to see light in the sky now when I finish work for the day around 4:30pm.
While those ten weeks are recognised as the darkest in the northern hemisphere, my own personal “dark days of winter” timeline is measured a little differently.
Regular readers of my blog already know how much I love the beach. The beach is my happy place. It’s where I go to think, to recharge my batteries and to feed my soul. I’m fortunate to live less than two miles from a small stretch of beach. Several times a week, I’ll walk there after work just to feel sand under my feet and to hear the water lapping ashore.
However, when the clocks change at the end of October, it becomes dark too early for me to walk there when I finish work. Visits to the beach become limited to the weekends until the light begins to return to the sky.
The key date for me isn’t 22nd January. It’s 1st February.
It takes until 1st February for the day to be just long enough for me to walk to the beach, walk along it and get far enough through the journey home to be back on the section of road that has streetlights before it is pitch black.
So, here we are, finally into February. Hallelujah! My daily beach walks beckon”
Now, if it would just stop raining!….
credits to the owners of the top image – littlepinelearners – image is tagged
Coral McCallum 