Weekly snapshot #22

I told you it was on the way, and here it is!!: You can see some light in the sky in this week's snapshot! Such a HUGE difference from last week, eh?

And look how insanely warm out it is:

Seriously? Nine degrees in Antarctica in the wintertime? It's weird. And the chances are dwindling that I'll get to experience one of Antarctica's famed winter storms. On the other hand, glass-half-full friends who have spent winters here before tell me that usually, when the weather is stormy/crappy, you don't get to see/enjoy the light starting to come back into the sky, and you can go for days or weeks without (or miss out completely on) sights like this. Which is every afternoon for us these days:

Despite the excitement of the changing skies, I am sad to see the darkness go, if you want to know the truth. This has been a great experience here this winter, and it's gone far too quickly. So I'm glad we also have sights like this: the full-ish moon (the orb on the left; the smaller one on the right is a streetlamp), picture taken at 10am this morning, just three hours before I took the one at the top where the sky had turned all pink...