long shadows

One of the things that really struck me in Boston last week was just how high the sun was in the sky, compared to here in Iceland. Just now as I was walking down to lunch at noontime, my shadow seemed unbelievably long, a loping stick-man that stretched down the hill in front of me. When I got to the employee lot, the shadow covered the widths of 4 or 5 parked cars. So I paced it out using the old FB shoe-measuring method, and came up with the scientific estimate of 25 feet. That's a low sun.