The evening has dusked.

Yikes! You have cause to celebrate though. Your days will be getting longer from now on as ours get shorter. What time does the sun set on the shortest day of the year where you are? Here it sets around 4:30 pm on the Winter Solstice.

@Starmaiden Meanwhile we are having cold

@Starmaiden Our fruit trees find it odd. They yield at wrong times in the year

The weather is very unpredictable.

@allknowing I remember the winter of 2010. I was living in Vancouver and the city was hosting the Winter Olympics that year. January and February of that year was so warm that the cherry trees were in bloom. Snow for the skiing events at the Winter Games had to be trucked in to Whistler BC from the inland Rockies and distributed over the mountain.

Thank you.

@Starmaiden You're welcome, dear friend.

@Starmaiden North Calacky (Carolina)

@ScribbledAdNauseum.

You must live in the southern USA do you? The lower the lattitude, the shorter the day, although still long.

@Starmaiden This one is perfect, Lucinda. Peaceful atmosphere.

I took another photo at 10:20pm and the sky was still lit, although not as bright and not as open.