3:50 PM: Winter has arrived with true Seattle wintry weather – rain. Nevertheless, Alice Enevoldsen is at Solstice Park for her quarterly sunset watch, despite the sun being highly unlikely to make even a brief appearance this time. So if you want to commemorate the change of seasons and learn about the solar-system machinations behind it, come on over to the park’s plateau, uphill from the tennis courts at 7400 Fauntleroy Way SW. (The sun sets – out there beyond the clouds somewhere – behind the trees and mountains around 4:05, officially at 4:20 pm.)

4:10 PM: More than two dozen people showed up!

4:26 PM: Among the questions Alice has been asked, how much more light do we get today now that the days are getting longer? Less than a minute, Alice explained. Meantime – the rain has stopped!

P.S. Alice calculates this was her 67th sunset watch. Our archived coverage of them dates back to 2009!