In winter, when the sky got dark early and Mother worried about her making the long commute home, Naima would sleep on my bedroom floor.

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But then in the middle of the dark and cold winter of 2010 something happened.

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But while the winter months are dark, treacherous and shrouded in a white uniform of snow, summer brings with it the chance to see this part of the world in all its green grassy goodness.

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The sky was gray near the tops of the mountains, as gray as a dark day in winter.

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In the dark days of the American Revolution, just before the winter of 1776, Gen.

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Dark sand shown in one photo pokes through bright, crisp frost structures that formed in the previous winter.

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Winter, city life (with the concomitant shadows cast by tall buildings) and dark skin in dark climates all reduce this action.

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But Whistler makes for a long, expensive and potentially stressful daytrip, especially on dark winter evenings when the winding Sea-to-Sky Highway can be tricky to negotiate in a car.

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