Night-time cycling

Today is the equinox and, as if to order, the unusually warm sunny weather came to an end; replaced by cold, damp, sometimes rainy weather.
Cycling is very much a summer activity for me, and most people in the northern half of Sweden. However, more and more people are pushing those limits, and having got back into e-biking I'm joining that gang just now.
So today I cycled into town for a Left Party meeting that ended after dark. This is not something I'm used to because it doesn't get dark in our summer!
From car driving I know how dangerously invisible a cyclist without lamps is. And likewise I've learned how flashing, strobing, lights make cyclists very visible.So, I found and charged up my cycling lamps. As I set off home I had a flashing red light on my helmet and another on the back of my bike. I was wearing a fluorescent yellow vest. On the front I had the tiny light provided by Merida to make my e-bike legal, and then I had a 6000 lumen searchlight I'd imported specially. I use it at half-power in town and once I'm out in the darkness I give it full power. It lights up the gravel roads and makes me very obvious to  oncoming drivers. It has a strobe setting but it makes me (behind the light) feel slightly sick so I dread to think what it does to people it's illuminating. I don't use it so much!
I really enjoyed swishing home through the darkness. Most of the town section is on cycle paths and there's very little traffic on the back roads.
The photo is taken from Nybro, which is shortly to be demolished. It shows the Northern Sound, and the temporary bridge (opening soon). The giant barge moored across the sound and (closest) the jetty built recently from mainland to island. These last two objects will be the base for the heavy machinery needed to demolish the old bridge and build the new one.
In my working life I I cycled to work a few times a year on my now old-fashioned  cycle but arriving at work sweaty wasn't so good.  If e-bikes had been around when I was working, I'd have been cycling to work anytime the weather was half-way decent.
Now we enter the half of the year when there's more darkness than light. Most don't like it but I appreciate the darkness and the cosiness it creates. Perhaps a relic of my younger days when I spent a lot of time exploring caves...