more daylight

Driving home last evening, I noticed something on the western horizon. The sun. The time: 5:45 p.m. It's a small thing, but the early sunsets of winter are slowly coming later and later, and that makes me happy. I don't measure winter in degrees or inches of snow. I measure it in daylight. I can handle more cold days and more snow days, and who knows how many of these there will be.

But one thing I can count on--the days will get longer, sun will set later. I'll take it.