comment on an earlier post, where i complained about the darkness:
it's the indoor darkness i don't like. outdoor darkness is wonderful! as long as it's "real"... i don't like the darkness in cities, where all the light from houses and street lights and cars make the darkness into a thick grey foggy thing... i like the darkness to be dark and light.

last week the few street lights we have here in nyland were lit all through the night. this made me really upset, and i nearly telephoned someone to complain about it, but fortunately they now turn them off at 23.00 again. i love going on the last walk of the day in darkness. most people here seem to go to bed early, so there's not much light from windows to disturb the sky (and there are not many windows anyway, so even if the entire village would stay up i wouldn't have to walk very far to find the darkness).

we can see both långsele and helgum from our house, as pink lights in the sky. both långsele and helgum are rather small places, about 6 km from us in different directions, and we can't see the "real" lights as they are both on the other sides of a couple of hills. but we see the pollution in the sky that their lights are causing. it doesn't take much light to destroy the darkness...  ¶ 11:11 PM