Land of the Midday Moon

Back in the 1980's one of my British colleagues here dubbed Sweden the land of the midday moon. It was a play on the fact that the northern Scandinavian tourist industry at that time made a big deal of the summer midnight sun, but never mentioned that summer light was equalled by winter darkness. 
Fortunately we live a bit to the south of that colleague so even in midwinter we have the chance of 3-4 hours of sunlight if the sky is clear.
Today, 10 days from the winter solstice, the sun set at 2 o'clock, but a clear sky and our long twilight meant there was still some light up there when I took this picture of the waxing moon at 3:20.
The extra shows the moon hanging directly above the trees, taken a short way from the main blip and more-or-less at the same time.

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