On January 20th, they finally took down most of the Christmas/New Year lights in St. Petersburg. It's always a little strange to me to be halfway into January, and still looking at lights all along the streets & lit "New Year" trees (not Christmas trees, every Russian will point out to you). After all, it's the new year and I always want to move forward.
But I will admit that the lights make for a pretty walk home. And they add some much welcome light to our long dark days. We are currently getting around 6 1/2 hours of dim light each day. It's better than late December (which is closer to 5 hours), and we're gaining 4 minutes a day, but it's still mostly dark.
So here's the last of the lights
Lovely holiday lights. They should leave them up until you have a normal length day !
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful , it will be spring before you know it .
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