I woke up a bit earlier than usual today. First I thought it was still in the middle of the night, but after checking the clock I realized it was already morning. It wad just so dark.
I didn't wake up super early. I'm sure I have woken up as early within the past two weeks for sure. It's just the time of the year: we are heading towards the darkness, fast. It's only two weeks from the equinox and the day is already one and an half hours shorter than the night and the sun rises half an hour later than two weeks ago. So of course it's darker at this time than it was just two weeks ago.
In four weeks, we will switch back the clocks by one hour (hopefully the last time). Due to days getting shorter and sun rising later we will end up having the sun rise at the same time then as it did today. And then we start the descend towards darker mornings again while the sunset already gained an hour of jumpstart.
Let's just hope there will be snow thus year to bring some lightness to all that darkness.