For more than two hours she ran repeats of 200-meter sprints, a track event in which she won a gold medal, until finally, as the sun was lowering in the sky, the prison's bell forced Jones back inside.
Even as the shadows were deepening in the saguaro-studded mountain clefts, and the sun was lowering over the blue range to the west, I, with the circular compulsions of an aging brain, kept wandering out of doors, convinced that one more search in and around the hedge and the ocotillo would produce my missing headgear.
Then, as the sun was lowering and the sea turning golden, we saw what remained: a line of decayed boilers, scores of wooden boxes holding unbroken lightbulbs, which I knew the Star was carrying, and, the remains of the crude shelter the survivors had built, and in which they huddled for a month before a rescue convoy reached them by land.
Back in Llangrannog and as the sun was lowering in the sky, we saw a big splash further out to sea and realised we'd been joined by a dolphin, throwing itself out of the water and showing off, much to the delight of everyone watching on the beach.
"At least our semi-final will be at 5pm [local time] when the sun is lower".
At higher latitudes the sun is lower in the sky and the sunlight hits the earth's surface at an angle.
"In many respects, winter is the best time because the sun is lower in the sky and the light produces more shadows.
You can't imagine the pain these children will feel later, on a Sunday afternoon, when the sun is lower in the sky and his metallic-blue Suburban with vinyl seats pulls away, horn tapping, big soft hand waving at the tearful faces pressed against the glass front door of the Magill Road house, wishing their father would stay.
Furthermore, the damaging UV received on exposed surfaces, such as the face or neck, may be more pronounced than implied from these measurements of UVI during winter, because when the sun is lower in the sky, the UV incident on such surfaces can be significantly greater than on a horizontal surface.
So in fact, the total energy output of the sun is lower during a solar minimum.
