Happy Holidays! The day length around this time of the year is pretty short in Fairbanks, Alaska. Around the winter solstice, we get about 3 hours and 40 minutes. My 6-year-old son started to attend a kindergarten this fall, and he is learning a lot. He recently started to correct my English pronunciation, and "solstice" is one of the words which he corrected my pronunciation! 3 hours and 40 minutes sounds pretty dark for people who haven't lived in high latitudes, but actually we get long twilight, so it is a beautiful time of the year. But many of us get excited that a half of the winter is over, and we will be gaining day light quickly. Ice fog in Fairbanks, around the noon, close to the winter solstice. There are several Japanese traditions to celebrate the winter solstice. One of them is called Yuzu-yu. We put oranges, called Yuzu ( Citrus junos ), to the bath. We can't find this particular orange, so we just put normal orange...
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