Greenhouse - White Nights - dinner

We were invited to Ann's place for dinner. The invitation had gone out to all of us who used to work in the "Aesthetic dept" before the Härnösand campus was closed down, so it was fun to meet up with a group of people who had worked really closely together once, but who were now scattered to other jobs or had become pensioners.
As the evening moved along the sun slid away and the temperature fell. In these white nights the candles were mostly for atmosphere but the fire burning on the far side of the table was needed.
Jan and I stayed until 1 am, and then cycled 3km home in the cold dusk dawn light. Birds were singing wildly, the air was absolutely still and the lake mirror smooth. Even at the darkest hour it was light enough to hide the stars. There is a real magic to these summer nights which I loved when I first experienced them 37(!) years ago, and which I have never stopped loving!