The Tangle - Photogallery

[Mervi]

Nope, you can't really grow anything during the winter months without artificial light (and heat). Some vegetables are grown (commercially) in greenhouses - things like cucumbers or tomatoes, but mostly they're flown in from southern Europe, the Middle-east, northern Africa etc - and that of course means the prices go up (well, many fruits and vegetables are flown in all year round - you can't grow things like kiwi fruit or oranges here). So yeah, basically there's this whole dilemma during winter of whether to buy locally produced expensive greenhouse tomatoes that are often considered more safe and clean or cheaper "airplane" tomatoes produced with tons of pesticides and harvested by underpaid labourers (and which method wastes more energy and produces CO2 and demands the use of precious water supplies) .... which you can try to avoid by eating only stuff harvested locally during autumn like root vegetables and frozen berries etc.

Back to the topic of posting photos. Since it's the Winter Solstice today, I thought it would be a good time to post these:

This photo was taken about an hour before midnight on the day of the Summer Solstice in 2005.
[Image: kesa2005.jpg]

This photo was taken about an hour before midnight on the day of the Winter Solstice in 2005.
[Image: birches.jpg]

(The first one is an "as is" photo with no artificial lighting or tinkering in Photoshop. The latter has some amount of flash & street lights helping, but anyways I think you get the idea of the differences.)