From left, Gastón de los Reyes, of Boston and Pomfret, Linde McNamara, of Etna, her daughter, Diana McNamara, of Scotland, and John Sibbert, of Scotland, walk the mile back to their cars from the Lyme Pinnacle as the sun sets in Lyme, N.H., on the shortest day of the year, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. The four joined the Upper Valley Land Trust for its annual winter solstice hike at the conservation area. In Aberdeenshire, the region of Scotland where Diana McNamara and Sibbert live, the day is more than two-and-a-half hours shorter than the almost nine hours of daylight in Lyme on the solstice. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
From left, Gastón de los Reyes, of Boston and Pomfret, Linde McNamara, of Etna, her daughter, Diana McNamara, of Scotland, and John Sibbert, of Scotland, walk the mile back to their cars from the Lyme Pinnacle as the sun sets in Lyme, N.H., on the shortest day of the year, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 2021. The four joined the Upper Valley Land Trust for its annual winter solstice hike at the conservation area. In Aberdeenshire, the region of Scotland where Diana McNamara and Sibbert live, the day is more than two-and-a-half hours shorter than the almost nine hours of daylight in Lyme on the solstice. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com. Credit: Valley News — James M. Patterson

Gastón de los Reyes, of Boston and Pomfret, Linde McNamara, of Etna, her daughter, Diana McNamara, of Scotland, and John Sibbert, of Scotland, walk the mile back to their cars from the Lyme Pinnacle as the sun sets on the shortest day of the year Tuesday. The four joined the Upper Valley Land Trust for its annual winter solstice hike at the conservation area. In Aberdeenshire, the region of Scotland where Diana McNamara and Sibbert live, the day is more than 2½ hours shorter than the almost nine hours of daylight in Lyme on the solstice.