This picture, taken just before ten last night from our house, looks west over the village of Golspie. The sky is still light in the west-north-west from the setting of the sun and the length of each night will shorten quickly as we approach the solstice, so by June the sky we will have twenty-four hour daylight.
I don't really enjoy the light nights. They seem, somehow, unnatural, and I'm not one to see any value in the extending daylight. I far prefer the tropical night which falls quickly at six in the evening and is done at six the next morning, to the extent that one can put one's clock right by it.
The bright 'star' directly above the statue on the top of Ben Bhraggie is Mercury which will set before 10.30pm.
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