I have lived only in southern and eastern Finland, so even though the days are shorter in the winter, I do not know of the Lapplandish kaamis time when the sun does not rise above the horizon at all. But my impression is that the shorter days and the twilight times one lives best in a quiet atmospheric way. Here is a quotation from the autumn part of my book of the four seasons, see MiracleLikeNature.BlogSpot.com
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Also when trees in the autumn drop their leaves, flowers on the window make the view nicer and more beautiful,
In the last days of October one changes clocks to the winter time, to solar time, and so the darkness comes one hour earlier in the evenings.
Twilight time has it's own charm. It is quieter, time for more peaceful life, more like home, a little bit like in the old times with grasses, bushes and atmospheris quietened life around.Also in the dark one can usually see something, if one does not blind one's eyes by looking at bright lights but instead gives them time to get adapted to the dark. At least in towns there is some light everywhere. The weather can be an impressive experience at the time of dark. From the windows shine the lights of homes warmly. And when you come in, lights shine from there and at the door warm air hits your face. It is warm inside and comfortable, there is tea and something to eat, and you can then dry your clothes and spend the evening in the warmth, in lighted space nicely doing something, and you have company too.
If you would have a tiny palm tree and other plants on your window, it can bring to your living room some of the fascination of the longing for a holiday trip to warm countries.
My assistant poodle produces these melodies when I thought that I maybe needed to compose something for the winter but don't have the skills for it. The first one is over two weeks earlier, before snow, "Evening twilight and waiting for snow", and during the second one there already was slightly snow.
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Almost a week from the beginning of January one notices here in southern Finland mornings getting lighter, and so it is an entirely different kind of feeling of some more light and wintery snowy life.
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For the winyer time to be clmfortable, I guess that one does not need to be so very north, but there ought not come any influencies from the ice dessert like places like Canada, Alaska or eskimos, which are somewhat (or a lot) accident borne places compared with Finland. My impression is that some nations are kind of stiff until some earthquake or other big catastrophe like happening, but is it that the small animals in houses are too much without food and water, so maybe some piece of bread plus some fresh vegetable like a carrot, available for the animals in each room, would help the insects etc enough so that humans too would not be so stiff and stuck.
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