Well, the sun just set on the shortest day of the year – and it was a lovely day too. There is a closed cairn called Maeshowe not far from here – a 5,000 year old ‘building’ (covered mound) and its interior is all lit up by the winter sun in the days surrounding the solstice.
This year they had hoped to capture that light from the setting sun in a live streaming at exactly 3:15 but the clouds got in the way – the YouTube video that Historic Environment Scotland has posted is still very interesting, nonetheless. (And they’ve provided closed-captioning to help with the Orcadian dialect 🙂 ).
