What are white nights? White Nights is the time in the summer (June-July) where there is a short time of total darkness. At the hight of summer the sun is either out or hovering on the horizon for the majority of the time. Never fully setting. Even at 3 am the sky is lit slightly by the sun. These long days are a stark contrast the the long dark days of winter. I have learned that you can be out until 11 pm and think that is is only 8pm or earlier because it is so bright outside. It has taken some adjusting to and learning to go to sleep when you bedroom is light. A little trick that we learned was that reynolds wrap over the windows will help keep the light out, or if you have thin curtains like our apartment does you can just throw an extra sheet over the window. It is almost impossible, it feels like to go to bed anytime before midnight, as even at midnight your room has the brightness of twilight (that is with the lights out and shades pulled with a sheet over the window). I am soaking up as much sunlight as possible as I know that soon I will surrounded by darkness. Earlier in the summer I was walking back home around 10 pm and there was a really bright rainbow above my apartment building.
The following pictures where taken after 10:00 pm from my apartment window:
The days are beginning to become shorter. It is starting to get dark around 10:30. We still have some time left of these long days but soon the days will become colder and the sun will start to slowly disappear.
