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It's a milestone of sorts, although I'm not sure of its significance.

The last couple of nights have been nearly dark due to heavy cloud cover. I mention it because this is the time of year when it really doesn't get dark. Sunrise was at 4:23 this morning, and sunset will be 11:36. Because the sun doesn't dip far below the horizon, it's still light enough to go walking an hour before sunrise, and an hour or more after sunset. In between (when the sky is clear), it gets dusky but not dark.

Our cool, rainy weather continues, and AccuHunch guesses we'll have rain later this morning. It rained yesterday evening for awhile, and again overnight.  We'll probably get into the mid-50s today, but no warmer. We should be about 10 degrees warmer than that, and I wish we could share a bit of the chill & rain with folks down south (Arizona, New Mexico, and anywhere else it's too hot & too dry).

There was another hiker mauled by a brown bear on Sunday, north of Anchorage in Eagle River. He climbed a tree to get away from it, and is recovering. To quote from this morning's paper: "The count since just mid-May is two mauled men, one dead llama and three dead bears."

Sorry I don't have more to report this a.m. Have a great day, folks.