One of my favourite parts of the day is when the sun lines up with Pender St. Across from my office there are a bunch of hydro poles, signposts, trees, etc. and for about two minutes each morning, the shadows from them line up and make one long line of shadow. Then as the sun moves at an angle from them, the shadow from each one separates into its own individual line. There’s a particular moment – it takes less than a second – when that little crack of sun between the two shadows extends all the way to the base of whatever object the shadow is coming from. I like to be watching this.
Also, the shadow from the stoplight which is in the middle of the road, is now closer to my office when the shadows are lining up. This means that the sun is higher in the sky. Hooray!
However, this moment of aligned shadows happens later in the day. Last week it was at about 9:06 or so and this morning it was at 9:11. I spent a good chunk of the morning trying to figure out why. You’d think that if the sun’s up earlier, it would be over here earlier too? Apparently not.
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