White nights

It’s been a while since my last post. I’ve been more or less on a blogging break – undecisive of wether to continue or quit the whole thing. For now it seems that I’ll be continuing but we’ll see how it goes.

Today is the Midsummer day in Finland. It’s celebrated every year on a Saturday close to the Winter Solstice day which this year is tomorrow, the 21st. Midsummer here is “the night of no night” – when the sun doesn’t set. That phenomena is also called “the white nights”. In Midsummer the flags exceptionally(* stay up in the poles through the night from Friday evening 6 pm until 9 pm Saturday evening.

This photo was taken in the midnight three weeks ago – so it wasn’t really a “white night“. However, close to it as you see.

*) Normal rules in Finland say that the flag must not be in the pole after the sunset – or 6 pm or something when the days are shorter. But sincethe sun doesn’t set in the Midsummer the flag will stay up through the night.