Leaves in Ithaca. Back in Fairbanks, they're all brown and on the ground.

In Fairbanks, the sun rose this morning at 8:49 and it will set this afternoon at 6:22, for 9 hours 32 min of daylight—6 min 42 seconds more than yesterday. The sun at its highest is less than 16 degrees above the horizon, so we’re not getting much solar heating.  I’m not in Fairbanks right now, but according to the weather service, there probably won’t be snow on the ground this week. They are calling for rain and snow showers at night, though.

Here in Ithaca, New York, the trees are turning color (including red) and the view is brilliant when it isn’t raining. This morning the sun is even shining, Back home in North Pole, it’s 32 degrees F and snowing, according to my iPhone. The lawn here and many of the leaves are still green. It’s going to be a bit of a shock getting back home, where the leaves are on the ground but will probably be under the snow by the time I get back. There was enough to whiten the ground in the shade when I left, last Wednesday. Here, though, the sun is up 11 hours a day. It’ll be up even longer for me next week, in Sierra Vista, Arizona.