Winter Sunset

Looing out my window is like watching a kinetic sculpture, something I feel in love with while at the University of Iowa. Also after the stupid mistake I made yesterday with vacation photos I wanted to try to see if could download photos correctly. Yesterday I made the mistake of using Picasa instead of Photoshop. Photoshop is much better and much more intutitive.

We are beginning at last to see longer days in this northern latitute. Everyone thinks the day begins to lengthen after December 21. The sunset gets later beginning then, but the sunrise comes later, so the days remain the same length until January 7 when there is a bit of lengthening starting at both ends. This view is taken "upriver" and shows the High Bridge over the Mississsippi River in the upper left. The road marked by the street lights in Shephard Road, a fast and easy way to leave downtown Saint Paul and connect with locations further west in Saint Paul or head to the airport or freeway connections elsewhere.