Winter solstice

What better way to wake up on the shortest day of the year than to sleep in as the rain falls. Apparently there is fourteen hours and seventeen minutes of darkness tonight or alternatively only nine hours and forty three minutes of daylight. And there I was wasting daylight hours by sleeping!!!! Spare a thought however for those reserchers in Antartica. Apparently the sun went down a few weeks ago and they have to wait another few weeks for it to rise!!! Imagine going on an all night drinking binge down there!!

I checked out the maple tree and there are only two leaves left. I think the tree is going to win this one.