winter darkness

Winter here is dark. Plain and simple.  The sun doesn't shine that often and most days are grey and cloudy.  It is hard to understand what I mean by it's dark, unless you live in a location where the winters are dark. Until I moved here I thought I knew what a dark winter meant, but I was wrong. The months of darkness and winter can seem to drag on.  Unlike the summer where the sun is always shinning and seems to never fully set, the sun doesn't come up until late morning in the winter and sets early in the evening. This morning I went out to run some errands and thought I'd show you what a normal morning in winter is like.

8:30 am, walking to the bus stop.

8:30 am, waiting on the bus. The sky is fully dark,
the only lights are from the street lamps and car lights.

9:00 am

10:00 am. The sun is just beginning to rise.

10:30 am

11:00 am

11:00 am, the sun still isn't fully up yet.

It is almost noon before the sky is bright and the sun is shinning. Today the sky is actually blue and not grey (not long after writing this the sky turned grey and it began to snow).  Even on days when the sun comes out and the sky is blue, it still begins to get dark around 4.

2:00 pm and the sky is blue today!
Today is the only day this week it isn't
suppose to be snowing. correction, it began snowing
around 4pm.